Petr is a macroeconomist studying how innovation, business dynamism and entrepreneurship affect productivity growth and employment. Combining empirical microdata analysis with structural macroeconomic modeling, hePetr works with governments, public agencies and research institutions to help ground policy decisions in frontier economic research.
p.sedlacek@unsw.edu.au
petr.sedlacek@economics.ox.ac.uk
Consulting & Policy Appointments
Advisor in econometric analysis
Advice on research design and methodology
National R&D&I evaluation
EU Start-up Calculator: impact of COVID-19 on startups and employment
EU research and innovation policy
2018–2019CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, Consultant
Job creation and development
Policy Reports & Tools
with Rachel Lee | e61 Institute, October 2025
with Zach Hayward and Matt Nolan | BusinessThink, UNSW, April 2025
Is There a Jobs Vaccine?
with Vincent Sterk, Public Finance, 5 (44), 2021
Building on his research with Vincent Sterk, Petr developed an Online Calculator for the European Commission. You can access the Calculator for 23 European economies and the US economy
with Cristiana Benedetti Fasil and Vincent Sterk, JRC Technical Report, European Commission, 2020
with Cristiana Benedetti Fasil and Vincent Sterk, JRC Technical Report, European Commission, 2020
with Cristiana Benedetti Fasil and Vincent Sterk, JRC Technical Report, European Commission, 2020
with Paddy Carter, Insight research paper, CDC Group, September 2019
in New Entrepreneurial Growth Agenda, Section 3, Kauffman Foundation, February 2016
Policy-Relevant Research
with Marek Ignaszak and Daniel Robbins | 2025 — presented at The Treasury, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and the OECD
with Cristiana Benedetti Fasil and Vincent Sterk, ECONOMIC POLICY | 2022
with Benjamin Born, Gernot Mueller and Moritz Schularick, POLICY STUDIES | 2021
with Benjamin Born, Gernot Mueller and Moritz Schularick, ECONOMIC JOURNAL | 2019
with Vincent Sterk, JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS | 2019
