Mitja Steinbacher holds Masters of Mathematical Economy and a Ph.D. in Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Maribor University. His thesis: Liquidity Trap and the Stability Domain of the Banking System: Network Approach was supervised by Prof Ddr. Timotej Jagriča. He obtained his master’s in 2006 and was the first to apply Chebyshev Collocation to Hall’s Model.
His fields of study are numerical economics, simulation methods to agent-based economics, game theory and dynamic strategic games, economic policy, and economics of rules. He has adopted principles of the Austrian School of economic thought and methodology that supports the use of artificial simulation. He has been contributing to the conferences under the auspices of the Game Theory Society and the Society for Computational Economics. He was invited to present his work at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and gave the plenary talk at the University of Donja Gorica. He also participated as a speaker at the conferences organized under the auspices of ISIL and the European Resource Bank. Mitja cooperates with numerous economic-policy and scientific research institutes and publishes his work in peer journals.
His scientific and pedagogic career focuses on the establishment of the Catholic University in Slovenia. Currently is promoted to assistant professorship and works as a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Business Studies. He also runs the library that operates within the faculty and serves as a project partner manager at the faculty in the international project RestauraCE339.