30th NISPAcee Annual Conference

"Crises, Vulnerability and Resilience in Public Administration"

June 2-4, 2022

Bucharest, Romania

WG5: Public Finance and Public Financial Management

Working group coordinators:

Lucie Sedmihradska, Lecturer, Department of Public Finance, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected]

Juraj Nemec, Professor of Public Finance and Management, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic and Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, E-mail: [email protected]

Aleksander Aristovnik, Associate Professor, Faculty of Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, E-mail: [email protected]

– Report

The working group organised three hybrid sessions and one joint session with the WGI. A total of ten presentations were made during the three scheduled meetings, seven physical and three online. All scheduled authors presented their papers.

The aim of the working group is to provide research on public finance and public financial management conducted in the NISPAcee region and to encourage the publication of original research on the topic. Various topics were presented during this year's conference. The most homogenous sessions focused on budgeting. Other topics presented included an overview of research on taxation in our region, public financing of sports, financial determinants of hesitancy to vaccinate against COVID-19 in Romania, fiscal policy in Romania, health care financing in Russia, and the costs of compliance with environmental regulation.

All of the presented papers produced interesting findings, however, none of them can be directly submitted to the NISPAcee journal for consideration, but the authors of the best papers were given guidance of what to do to reach this level.