- Conferences
- Banja Luka 2023
- Tirana 2022
- International Conference: Why reducing smoking is crucial for a healthy and wealthy society and how that can be achieved?
- Macroeconomic Impact of Tobacco Taxation in Serbia
- Extended cost-benefit analysis of tobacco taxation: The case of Serbia
- Economic Research to Support and Promote Tobacco Excise Tax Reform
- Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Taxation - Romania
- Tobacco tax revenues and the government budget of Bulgaria
- BiH Tobacco Excise Tax Modeling
- The impoverishing effect of Tobacco use in Albania
- Impact of affordability on cigarettes consumption in Kosovo
- Crowding-out of tobacco use in Montengro
- The economic of tobacco farming in North Macedonia
- Podgorica - 2022
- Berlin - 2020
- Skopje - 2019
- Bucharest - 2019
- Belgrade - 2018
- Warsaw - 2018
Economic Research to Support and Promote Tobacco Excise Tax Reform
Economic Research to Support and Promote Tobacco Excise Tax Reform
Violeta Vulovic, PhD & Jeffrey Drope, PhD University of Illinois Chicagobia
November 2-3, Tirana, Albania
Core Competencies for Research
- Estimating demand elasticity (e.g., overall, by income, sex, age, etc.)
- Modeling alternative tax structures/rates to estimate impacts on revenues and public health
- Measuring distributional impacts of tax increases
- Quantifying economic costs (direct and indirect) of tobacco use and how taxes can address these costs
- Estimating macroeconomic impacts of tax increases (e.g., employment, income, output) supply chain (I-O and CGE analysis)
- Quantifying levels of illicit trade, measuring trends, geographical areas of leakage, etc., using primary and secondary data sources
