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Wednesday, 24 June, 2026

Master´s Thesis Defense Presentations June 2026

Defense Committee: Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Jan Zápal, Yiman Sun

9:00

Blend Berisha: How Wartime Violence Shapes Post-Conflict Voting: The Electoral Legacy of War in Kosovo

10:00

Boris Gerát: Risk Channel of Monetary Policy and Heterogeneity in the Financial Sector

11:00

Rebeka Hoblik: Priming Protectionism: 19th Century Tariff Exposure and the Shape of Public Discourse in Newspapers

13:00

Maggi Cardoso Giovana: Financial Incentives and Sustainable Mobility: Evaluating the Impact of the Ecobonus Program in Italy

14:00:

Petr Rusnok: Why ICT Matters Less in Europe: Financial Structure and Organizational Investment

15:00

González Munoz René Sebastian: Intertemporal consistency and performance in project realization outcomes

Blend Berisha

Abstract:

This paper examines how wartime violence is associated with postconflict electoral outcomes in Kosovo. Using settlement-level data for Kosovo Assembly elections from 2010 to 2025, linked to wartime victimization, housing destruction, prewar settlement characteristics, and census controls, the analysis tests whether more heavily affected settlements gave greater support to parties associated with active, armed resistance. The main specification compares settlements within the same municipality. The results show that higher logged Albanian victimization is positively associated with active-resistance party vote share from 2010 through 2021, while the relationship weakens in 2025. The same pattern is not found for passive-party support or Vetëvendosje vote share. Housing-damage results are more mixed, and instrumental-variables estimates based on prewar Serbian settlement geography are interpreted as supportive but not definitive. Overall, the findings suggest that wartime violence remained politically salient in Kosovo by reinforcing electoral support for parties linked to armed resistance, although this legacy appears to have weakened in the most recent election.

Full Text: “How Wartime Violence Shapes Post-Conflict Voting: The Electoral Legacy of War in Kosovo"