Issues in Domestic Petroleum Pricing in Oil-Producing Countries

This paper discusses issues relating to the domestic pricing of petroleum in oil-producing countries. It finds that in most major oil-exporting countries, government policies keep domestic prices below free-market levels, resulting in implicit subsidies that equaled 3.0 percent of GDP, on average, i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gupta, Sanjeev
Other Authors: Clements, Benedict, Fletcher, Kevin, Inchauste, Gabriela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2002
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Oil
Online Access:
Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02570nmm a2200589 u 4500
001 EB000929995
003 EBX01000000000000000723591
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 150128 ||| eng
020 |a 9781451856132 
100 1 |a Gupta, Sanjeev 
245 0 0 |a Issues in Domestic Petroleum Pricing in Oil-Producing Countries  |c Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Kevin Fletcher, Gabriela Inchauste 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2002 
300 |a 31 pages 
651 4 |a Ecuador 
653 |a Energy: Demand and Supply 
653 |a Wealth 
653 |a Oil prices 
653 |a Oil 
653 |a Investments: Energy 
653 |a Saving 
653 |a Energy subsidies 
653 |a Fuel prices 
653 |a Cost-Benefit Analysis 
653 |a Petroleum industry and trade 
653 |a National accounts 
653 |a Expenditure 
653 |a Commodities 
653 |a Energy: General 
653 |a Consumption; Economics 
653 |a Expenditures, Public 
653 |a Consumption 
653 |a Energy and the Macroeconomy 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Macroeconomics: Consumption 
653 |a Investment & securities 
653 |a Energy industries & utilities 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Allocative Efficiency 
653 |a Energy: Government Policy 
700 1 |a Clements, Benedict 
700 1 |a Fletcher, Kevin 
700 1 |a Inchauste, Gabriela 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781451856132.001 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2002/140/001.2002.issue-140-en.xml?cid=15963-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a This paper discusses issues relating to the domestic pricing of petroleum in oil-producing countries. It finds that in most major oil-exporting countries, government policies keep domestic prices below free-market levels, resulting in implicit subsidies that equaled 3.0 percent of GDP, on average, in 1999. Moreover, the paper argues, these petroleum subsidies are inefficient and inequitable-entailing substantial opportunity costs in terms of forgone revenue or productive spending-and also procyclical, complicating macroeconomic management. Nonetheless, the elimination of petroleum subsidies is often politically difficult, although countervailing measures and publicity campaigns can help engender support for reform