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Export competitiveness : fuel price nexus in developing countries : real or false concern?

Kpodar, Kangni; Fabrizio, Stefania; Eklou, Kodjovi - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing countries over the period 2000-2014. Using a fixed-effect estimator and the local projection approach, we find that an increase in domestic gasoline or diesel price adversely affects...

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Macroeconomic effects of reforms on three diverse oil exporters : Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UK

Beidas-Strom, Samya; Lorusso, Marco - 2019

We build and estimate open economy two-bloc DSGE models to study the transmission and impact of shocks in Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. After accounting for country-specific fiscal and monetary sectors, we estimate their key policy and structural parameters. Our findings suggest...

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Informal Labour and Credit Markets : A Survey

Levine, Paul - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modeling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by...

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The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited : Evidence for Developing Countries

Coady, David P. - 2015

designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude … of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distribution across income groups, incorporating more recent studies and … subsidy reform for countries where the data necessary for such an analysis is not available …

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Iran : the chronicles of the subsidy reform

Guillaume, Dominique M.; Zytek, Roman; Farzin, Mohammad Reza - 2011

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Iran : The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform

Guillaume, Dominique M. - 2011

On December 18, 2010, Iran increased domestic energy and agricultural prices by up to 20 times, making it the first …

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Riding the energy transition : oil beyond 2040

Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad; Pande, Aditya - 2017

Recent technological developments and past technology transitions suggest that the world could be on the verge of a profound shift in transportation technology. The return of the electric car and its adoption, like that of the motor vehicle in place of horses in early 20th century, could cut oil...

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Carbon taxation for international maritime fuels : assessing the options

Parry, Ian W. H.; Heine, Dirk; Kizzier, Kelley; Smith, … - 2018

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) announced in April 2018 a target of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the sector by 50 percent below 2008 levels by 2050 and subsequent meetings of the IMO will develop a strategy for making headway on this commitment. This paper seeks to...

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Fuel Price Subsidies in Gabon : Fiscal Cost and Distributional Impact

Leigh, Daniel - 2006

This paper looks at the fiscal cost and distributional impact of implicit fuel price subsidies in Gabon, where fuel prices have remained largely unchanged since 2002. Using estimated implicit import parity prices, we evaluate the total fiscal cost of the subsidies at 3.2 percent of non-oil GDP...

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The distributional implications of the impact of fuel price increases on inflation

Kpodar, Roland Kangni; Liu, Boya - 2021

This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest...

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