Vytautas is an associate professor at the Institute.
Vytautas obtained his PhD from Vilnius University in 2013. He holds an MA in Comparative Politics from Vilnius University and BSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga).
Vytautas was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University in 2016-17. In addition, he has had research stays at University of Zurich, University College London, Central European University, European University Institute, Bristol University, and Tallinn Technical University.
Received the prize for young scientists awarded by the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (2018), Vilnius University’s rector’s award for the best young scientists (2015) and the best lecturer (2014), twice received the award for the best annual publication by the Lithuanian Political Science Association (in 2014 and 2015).
Master's Colloquium
Bachelor's Colloquium
International Economics
Fundamentals of Economics
Political economy of exchange rates
Political economy of financial crises
Varieties of Capitalism
“Retrospective voting in Central and Eastern Europe: Hyper-accountability, corruption or socio-economic inequality?” (co-authored with Mažvydas Jastramskis and Matas Baltrukevičius), Party Politics (forthcoming).
„Explaining National Preferences on the New European Banking Policy Framework: The Case of Lithuania“ (co-authored with Marius Skuodis), accepted for publication in Journal of Baltic Studies.
„Currency Boards, Depoliticization and Macroeconomic Stability: The Political Economy of Institutional Complementarities“ (co-authored with Magnus Feldmann), Policy Studies 38 (4), 2017, 356-374.
„Race to the Euro: Why Latvia Joined Earlier Than Lithuania“ (co-authored with Anastazija Markevičiūtė), Baltic Journal of Political Science 5 (5), 2017, 5-20.
„Mokestinės moralės reikšmė, situacija Lietuvoje ir būdai ją pagerinti“ (co-authored with Romualdas Bakutis), in Liutauras Gudžinskas (ed.), Geras valdymas ir pasitikėjimas tvarkos institucijomis, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2017, 183-230.
„Fiscal Policy Learning from Crisis: Comparative Analysis of the Baltic Countries“ (co-authored with Ringa Raudla, Rainer Kattel, and Aleksandrs Cepilovs), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, publikuotas internete, 2016, 1-16.
