The 2026 Hanžeković Foundation awards committee – Slavko Bezeredi (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb), Guzmán González-Torres (Banca d'Italia, Roma), Katarina Ott (Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb), Šime Smolić (Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb) and Sonja Radas (The Institute of Economics, Zagreb) decided on the winners of this year’s awards. 

The regular award – 6,500 euros, medals and diplomas – goes to Marko Ledić and Ivica Rubil, from the Social policy and labour markets department at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, for the article “Who Deserves What? Inequality Perceptions and Preferences for Redistribution in Croatia”.

Because of the poor quality of the submitted students’ articles, there is no award in the student category this year. 

The award ceremony will be held at the end of November and the awarded paper will be published in the journal Public Sector Economics.