Viktor Stojkoski, PhD, completed his education at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia, with a dual PhD degree in Computer Science (2020) and Economics (2023), and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Collective Learning at the University of Toulouse, France (2022). As an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics in Skopje, he has been involved in research on economic complexity and economic inequality. Besides scientific research, he has been actively involved in several policy projects, advising national ministries and international agencies on sustainable and inclusive development. Viktor’s research excellence has been recognized nationally, earning him the Best Young Social Scientist of North Macedonia award in 2022, and subsequently the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Award for the Best Social Scientist in 2023.

2020–

• Basnarkov, L., Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., & Kocarev, L. (2020). Lead–lag relationships in foreign exchange markets. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 539, 122986.
• Tevdovski, D., & Stojkoski, V. (2020). What is behind extreme negative returns co-movement in the South Eastern European stock markets?.

2019–

• Basnarkov, L., Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., & Kocarev, L. (2019). Option Pricing with Heavy-Tailed Distributions of Logarithmic Returns. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 22(7), 1950041.
• Stojkoski, V., Sandev, T., Basnarkov, L., & Kocarev, L. (2019). Option pricing under the generalized geometric Brownian motion. In Proceedings of the 32nd Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics.
• Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., Basnarkov, L., & Kocarev, L. (2019). Cooperation dynamics of generalized reciprocity in networked geometric Brownian motion. Physical Review E, 99(6), 062312.
• Toshevska-Trpchevska, K., Disoska, E. M., Tevdovski, D., & Stojkoski, V. (2019). The Impact of a Crisis on the Innovation Systems in Europe: Evidence from the CIS10 Innovation Survey. European Review, 1-20.
• Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., Andre, E., & Kocarev, L. (2019). The role of multiplex network structure in cooperation through generalized reciprocity. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 121805.
• Nedkovski, V., Stojkoski, V., & Guerci, M. (2019). How motivational ori- entation determines the pattern of advice-seeking relationships within orga- nizational contexts? In Proceedings of the Fourth Agent-Based Models of Organizational Behavior (ABMO4) Workshop 2019.
• Basnarkov, L., Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., & Kocarev, L. (2019). Correlation patterns in foreign exchange markets. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 525, 1026-1037.
• Santa, M., Stojkoski, V., Josimovski, M., Trpevski, I., & Kocarev, L. (2019). Robust determinants of companies’ capacity to innovate: a Bayesian model averaging approach. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1-14.

2018–

• Disoska, E. M., Tevdovski, D., Toshevska-Trpchevska, K., & Stojkoski, V. (2018). Evidence of innovation performance in the period of economic recovery in Europe. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 1-16.
• Utkovski, Z., Pradier, M. F., Stojkoski, V., Perez-Cruz, F., & Kocarev, L. (2018). Economic complexity unfolded: Interpretable model for the productive structure of economies. PloS one, 13(8), e0200822.
• Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., Andre, E., & Kocarev, L. (2018). Multiplex Network Structure Enhances the Role of Generalized Reciprocity in Promoting Coop- eration. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2018.
• Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., Basnarkov, L., & Kocarev, L. (2018). Cooperation dynamics of generalized reciprocity in state-based social dilemmas. Physical Review E, 97(5), 052305.
• Pradier, M. F., Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., Kocarev, L., & Perez-Cruz, F. (2018, April). Sparse three-parameter restricted Indian buffet process for understanding international trade. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 2476-2480). IEEE.

2017–

• Stojkoski, V., Dimitrova, T., Jovanovski, P., Sokolovska, A., & Kocarev, L. (2017, September). Local Diffusion Versus Random Relocation in Random Walks. In International Conference on ICT Innovations (pp. 57-66). Springer, Cham.
• Utkovski, Z., Stojkoski, V., Basnarkov, L., & Kocarev, L. (2017). Promoting cooperation by preventing exploitation: The role of network structure. Physical Review E, 96(2), 022315.
• Stojkoski, V., Popova, K., & Tevdovski, D. (2017). Financial Development and Growth: Panel Cointegration Evidence from South-Eastern and Central Europe.
• Stojkoski, V., & Kocarev, L. (2017). The Relationship Between Growth and Economic Complexity: Evidence from Southeastern and Central Europe.

2016–

• Stojkoski, V., Utkovski, Z., & Kocarev, L. (2016). The impact of services on economic complexity: service sophistication as route for economic growth. PloS one, 11(8), e0161633.

November 2019 – Visiting researcher at the London Mathematical Laboratory

September 2019 – Visiting researcher at the The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

July 2019 – London Mathematical Laboratory Summer School participant – Project: Inequality, mobility, poverty and mixing