About
Public Sector Economics (PSE) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Public Finance. First published in 1976 under the name of Financijska praksa (ISSN 0350-5669) in Croatian, it came of age in 1995 when it was renamed Financijska teorija i praksa (ISSN 1332-3970). From 2005 to 2010, the journal was published in both Croatian, as Financijska teorija i praksa, and English, as Financial Theory and Practice (ISSN 1846-887X). From 2010 to 2016, Financial Theory and Practice was published only in English. In 2017, it was renamed Public Sector Economics.
PSE is published four times a year: in March, June, September and December.
Acceptance rate: 20% (2023).
There is no submission fee. PSE is co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia.
PSE follows the best practice in academic publishing and continuously updates its ethical guidelines. We are highly appreciative of the opinions of authors, readers and reviewers on how to improve our journal.
PSE is a member of the CEE Network of Public Administration and Policy Journals.
Indexing / Abstracting
Articles published in PSE are indexed in: SCOPUS (Elsevier); EconLit (American Economic Association's electronic database); ABI/INFORM Global; ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); PAIS Index; DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals, Lund University, Sweden) and HRČAK (Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia)
According to SJR - Scimago Journal & Country Rank indicators for 2023, the journal is ranked in the fourth quartile (Q4) and is 85th (out of 161) among Croatian journals indexed in the Scopus database.
Editorial and Advisory Board
PSE is managed by the Editor-in-Chief, Co-editors and Associate Editors. The editors support and promote PSE by actively encouraging submissions in the academic and policy analysis communities, reviewing manuscripts, and organising annual conferences.
Co-editors: Dubravko Mihaljek, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland and Katarina Ott, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb
Associate editors: Branko Stanić and Bojan Morić Milovanović, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb and Šime Smolić, Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb
Copyeditor: Marina Nekić, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb
Layout editor: Martina Fabris, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb
Advisory Board members, nominated by the Editors and approved by the publisher, are prominent scholars from academic and policy research institutions. They periodically review the activities and publications of PSE, as well as plans and other strategic issues related to the journal.
List of reviewers
During the years we have endeavored to attract numerous very good authors, and at the same time to find the most competent reviewers for given areas. All the articles submitted have undergone a double, anonymous peer-reviewing procedure.
In our gratitude to reviewers for their patient performance of a very responsible and frequently unrewarding task and for their efforts to extract the very best from authors’ ideas and approaches to topics, we are publishing a list of all the colleagues who reviewed both published and unpublished articles since 2019. We are of course grateful also to all reviewers who did the same in the previous forty years since our journal's publication.