Jelena Zarkovic Rakic

Jelena Zarkovic Rakic is Assistant Professor of Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia and director of the Foundation for the Advancement in Economics (FREN), one of the leading research think-tanks in Belgrade, Serbia. Her research covers subjects in public and labour economics, with a particular interest in income inequality and poverty, optimal taxation, labor supply and the efficiency-equity analyses of tax-benefit systems. She has been involved in a number of research projects supported by the European Commission, Department for International Development, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. She has been World Bank consultant for the labour market, social policy and gender inequality. Jelena has published in journals like the Post-Communist Economies, International Journal of Microsimulation, Economic Annals.