Daša Farčnik, PhD, is a researcher and assistant professor at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana (SEB LU). She is a member of Department of Economics and she teaches Managerial Economics, Introduction to Tourism and Service Design and Innovations to Tourism. In the past, she mainly taught Microeconomics. Her research interests are mainly related to the investigation of firms’ behaviour, especially in tourism and labour economics.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Currently she is a national leader of Erasmus+ Project SKIPPER and Erasmus+ Project Agents AGENTS OF CHANGE – UNHURRIED HORIZONS: THE FUTURE OF SLOW TOURISM.

She is a member of Horizon2020 “Sustainwell project” and a member of ARIS research and infrastructure programme: “Challenges of inclusive sustainable development in the predominant paradigm of economic and business sciences”.

She is a member of an ARIS project “Analysis of the shortage of human resources for the needs of the Slovenian economy and society: Human resources for a highly productive, innovative economy and the dual transition to a digital and green society”.

RESEARCH

As a researcher, she has been involved in several projects (“The impact of major international sports events on GDP and other key socio-economic and financial indicators”, “Comparative analysis of enterprises’ reactions to external shocks in countries of Southeast Europe, PIGS, and »core European countries«”; “Climate change and its influence on the predominant paradigm in economic and business sciences and in Slovenia”; “OECD project Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) - Measuring the effectiveness of education and training system to improve the skills of adult 2013-2015”; “Labour demand analysis in Slovenia in the framework of firms’ strategic restructuring”; “Challenges of inclusive sustainable development in the predominant paradigm of economic and business sciences” and Horizon 2020 project: “Globalinto - Capturing the value of intangible assets in micro data to promote the EU's growth and competitiveness”). Each year she works with IMB students to prepare the final project, which is published in a book and presented at the annual Portorož Business Conference.

She was Marie Currie Fellow at the CERGE-EI in Prague, Czech Republic; attended many international conferences and was in organizing team of the EALE Conference in 2014. She has published research papers and book chapters both in domestic and international journals and books for example in International Journal of Manpower, Economic and Business Review, Tourism Economics, Annals of Tourism Research – Empirical Insights, Revija za socilanu politiku. She is a member of the editorial board of International journal of management in education and Academica turistica and an active reviewer for many journals such as International Journal of Manpower, Economics and Business Review, Annals of Tourism Research – Empirical Insights, and International Journal of Management in Education.

SCHOOL GOVERNANCE

She is a co-cordinator for EFMD accreditation EQUIS and was responsible for the reaccreditation of the University of Ljubljana School of Economics and Business EQUIS re-accreditation when the school was awarded another 5-year re-accreditation. She is a member of the Senate of the school and Quality Assurance Committee.

CONSULTANCY

She has been involved in several research and consultancy projects for example for Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, Šalek Valey Tourist board, Institute for Sports of the Republic of Slovenia – Planica and is a member of Strategic development innovation partnership for tourism. In consultancy she focuses on strategy development and reporting and ESG measurements.

SOME SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

FARČNIK, Daša, KUŠČER, Kir, TROBEC, Domen. Indebtedness of the tourism sector in Mediterranean countries. Tourism economics. 2015, vol. 21, no. 1, str. 141-157. ISSN 1354-8166. DOI: 10.5367/te.2014.0441.

KNEŽEVIĆ CVELBAR, Ljubica, FARČNIK, Daša, OGOREVC, Marko. Holidays for all : staycation vouchers during COVID-19. Annals of tourism research empirical insights. Nov. 2021, vol. 2, iss. 2 (art. 100019), 3 str. ISSN 2666-9579.

Repozitorij Univerze v Ljubljani – RUL, DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2021.100019. ISTENIČ, Tanja, REDEK, Tjaša, FARČNIK, Daša. Gender and age wage-productivity gaps in intangible and non-intangible work occupations. Economic and business review. Mar. 2024, vol. 26, iss. 1, article no. 1, str. 1-12. ISSN 2335-4216. DOI: 10.15458/2335-4216.1332.

REDEK, Tjaša, DOMADENIK MUREN, Polona, ERJAVEC, Eva, KOMAN, Matjaž, KOSTEVC, Črt, SAMBT, Jože, SPRUK, Rok, ŽABKAR, Vesna, FARČNIK, Daša, ISTENIČ, Tanja. The productivity puzzle in the context of (new) growth determinants. V: BLOCH, Carter (ur.), PROTOGEROU, Aimilia (ur.), VONORTAS, Nicholas S. (ur.). Intangible assets, productivity and economic growth : micro, meso and macro perspectives. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024. Str. 11-33, ilustr. Routledge studies in the economics of business and industry. ISBN 978-1-032-34867-4. DOI: 10.4324/9781003324225-2.

FARČNIK, Daša, KNEŽEVIĆ CVELBAR, Ljubica, PAHOR, Marko (avtor, vodja projekta), ZALAZNIK, Maja. Satelitski računi za šport. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljana, Ekonomska fakulteta, RCEF, 2021. X, 65 str., tabele, graf. prikazi. [COBISS.SI-ID 103801091] projekt: Zavod za šport Republike Slovenije Planica, Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in šport