In November 2018, Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) and Ministry of Energy (MinEnergo) came to an agreement with Russian oil companies to freeze petroleum products prices in the country until March 2019, which may be a headwind for fiscal regulation policies in the Russian...

Unable to cope fully with steadily climbing world oil prices since mid-2009, many of the 65 countries reviewed in this paper have progressed slowly or even reversed course in reforming pricing of petroleum products. End-user prices in July 2012 varied by two orders of magnitude across the...