Drini Imami

 

Visiting scholar 

Raum 3590
drinimami@yahoo.com

 

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Current Research Project

Informality, corruption and clientelism (with focus on Albania)

Main research interests Institutional economy
 
Program

PRELAB - Precarious Labour in Asia: Exploring Challenges and Solution to Labour Insecurity through Case-Study-Based Evidence from 8 Asian Countries

Short CV

Drini Imami earned his PhD in Agri-Food Economics and Policy from the University of Bologna in 2011. Over the past two decades, he has been affiliated with the Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness at the Agricultural University of Tirana, CERGE-EI, and Development Solutions Associates, and has served as a consultant for more than a dozen international development organizations, including the World Bank, IFC, EBRD, FAO, and GIZ. He has conducted research in several leading European research institutions and has co-authored more than 100 scientific journal articles.

  
Selected Publications

Efendic, A., Imami, D., & Zhllima, E. (2025). Confidence in formal and reliance on informal institutions – complementary or substituting relationship? – evidence from Albania. Post-Communist Economies.

Merkaj, E., & Imami, D. (2025). Electoral democracy, corruption, and tax evasion. European Journal of Political Economy  

Imami, D., & Polese, A. (2025). Why Elections Prompt More Corruption, Clientelism, and Forbearance? A Study of Attitudes in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. Comparative Southeast European Studies, 73(2), 209-229

Drishti, E., Duhanxhi, I., Mehmetaj, N., Imami, D., Zhllima, E., & Halluni, A. (2025). Inequality of opportunities, institutional distrust, and beliefs about socio-economic outcomes in the Western Balkans. Regional Science Policy & Practice, 17(4), 100174