He is also Affiliate Fellow at CERGE-EI (Prague) and Senior Research Associate at the CISAR research centre (Sarajevo). Adnan’s PhD—which he obtained from the Staffordshire University (UK)—investigated the effects of formal and informal institutions on economic performance in transition. Adnan has a wide research experience; he has been both a team leader and researcher on several international research projects, some of which were directly focused on formal and informal institutions and the EU integration processes in the Balkan region. He has published empirical articles in a number of highly ranked international journals, including European Journal of Political Economy, International Small Business Journal, Economics of Transition, Post-Socialist Economies, and Acta Oeconomica.