CEI Support to Taxation Policy Knowledge Transfer: Strengthening Public Revenues through Evidence-Based R&D

Project duration: february 2026 – january 2028

Call/Program/Scheme: Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) 2025

Client / Financier: Central European Initiative (CEI)

Participating institutions:

Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Economic Sciences

Principal investigator (PI): dr. Ivan Lichner, Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

The role of IEN in the project: IEN is a partner institution

IEN project team (manager/coordinator, team members):

dr. Jovan Zubović (coordinator)

dr. Olivera Jovanović

dr. Boban Nedeljković

Description:

The project aims to strengthen the capacities of the Institute of Economic Sciences to support evidence-based public policymaking. It is implemented in cooperation with the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, which will share its knowledge and practical experience in the fields of econometric modelling, tax analysis, and public policy communication throughout the project period.

The main purpose of the project is to contribute to improving the way tax policy is analyzed and discussed in Serbia. In particular, the project focuses on methods for assessing how changes in taxation can affect public revenues and economic behaviour, with special attention to excise policy and the taxation of activities with significant social and fiscal effects, such as games of chance.

Project activities include training workshops, methodological support, joint analytical work, the preparation of policy-oriented materials, and public dissemination events. The project will contribute to strengthening analytical skills, improving the use of data for the development of recommendations aimed at enhancing public policies, and encouraging data-based discussion between researchers and decision-makers.

Keywords: knowledge transfer, evidence-based policymaking, public revenues, elasticity estimation, games of chance taxation