In this work, entitled Microeconomic causes of the crisis of the Croatian economy, examines the crisis that shocked the world in 2008, and in 2009 arrived in Croatia. It analyzes the main conditions for the emergence of the global crisis, and what are the consequences for the national economy. Explaining the emergence of the crisis of mortgage loans and the impact on the state of the world economy, as the crisis spilled over to the economies of European countries. The third thematic unit of this work deals with the impact of the crisis on Croatia and recognizing the main mistakes of the past that have made the recession seven years long depression. Created a crisis at the global level, sets a major challenge to Croatia. The hypothesis of this work takes the view that the world economic crisis is only a small part of the impact on the national economy and the key factors of the current situation must look at the causes generated and neglected since the time of Croatian independence till now. It analyzes the existing problems and their causes resulting from the transition, war, privatization, expensive borrowing on the domestic market, the decline in export demand through macroeconomic indicators. Key reasons for such a "bad" position are: low level of equipment working capital, low share of highly-skilled labor in the total number of employees, extremely low investment in innovation and development of new products and services. Looking mikroekonomnske factors crisis: market size, investments in products, R & D, education structure. The question is whether the size of the Croatian market is sufficient to operate efficiently? How to produce competitive products without investing in research and development? And to invest in research and development with inconsistent skills education structure and the skills that the market demands. Synergistic effect of macroeconomic and microeconomic factors brought the Croatian national economy in the long recovery from depression and recession.