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International Fuel Tax Assessment; An Application to Chile

Parry, Ian W.H.; Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

Gasoline and diesel fuel are heavily taxed in many developed and some emerging and developing countries. Outside of the United States and Europe, however, there has been little attempt to quantify the external costs of vehicle use, so policymakers lack guidance on whether prevailing tax rates...

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Quasi-Fiscal Deficits and Energy Conditionality in Selected CIS Countries

Saavalainen, Tapio; Berge, Joy Mylène ten - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

energy sector's financial imbalances. In conclusion, different policy options are discussed in light of the lessons learned. …

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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment

Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263912

Optimal Fiscal Policy and the Environment

Ligthart, Johanna Elisabeth - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998

the environment, public funds are inexpensive, and public abatement is relatively productive. The analysis also shows that …

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Recent Dynamics of Crude Oil Prices

Krichene, Noureddine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Crude oil prices have been on a run-up spree in recent years. Their dynamics were characterized by high volatility, high intensity jumps, and strong upward drift, indicating that oil markets were constantly out-of-equilibrium. An explanation of the oil price process in terms of the underlying...

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Implications of Quasi-Fiscal Activities in Ghana

Chivakul, Mali; York, Robert C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

in energy and water consumption; and they have distorted the investment decisions of both public enterprises and the …

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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supply for the G-7 Countries, with Emphasison Germany

Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper discusses structure, impact, costs, and efficiency of renewable energy supply in the eight largest advanced … reductions in net carbon emissions; technological innovation, and increased energy security. The latter part of the paper centers … justified, relative to other means to increase energy security and reduce carbon emissions. We also find an excessive emphasis …

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Emergence of the Gulf of Guinea in the Global Economy; Prospects and Challenges

Mañe, Damian Ondo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

environment, and augmenting exports with value addition. …

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth; The Role of Political Institutions

Kazimov, Kazim; Hamilton, Kirk; Arezki, Rabah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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Iran; The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform

Guillaume, Dominique M.; Zytek, Roman; Farzin, Mohammad Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

On December 18, 2010, Iran increased domestic energy and agricultural prices by up to 20 times, making it the first … major oil-exporting country to reduce substantially implicit energy subsidies. This paper reviews the economic and technical …

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