Why do governments subsidize gasoline consumption? An empirical analysis of global gasoline prices, 2002–2009

Cheon, Andrew; Urpelainen, Johannes; Lackner, Maureen

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.12.075

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“…The growing body of the literature on fossil fuel subsidies and their reform has predominantly focused on domestic factors (Victor 2009;Bazilian and Onyeji 2012;Cheon et al 2013). The issue of international economic institutions in fossil fuel subsidy reform has been overlooked-except for treating them as one factor among many causing domestic fossil fuel subsidy reform (Beaton and Lontoh 2010).…”

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The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD

Skovgaard

2017

Int Environ Agreements

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Fossil fuel subsidy reform has in recent years been addressed by international economic organizations including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The two organizations have differed significantly in how they define fossil fuel subsidies. The IMF's definition constitutes a radical break with previous definitions by including environmental externalities, while the OECD's is more conventional. The article explores the factors that explain why these international economic organizations have approached fossil fuel subsidies so differently. The exact definition of fossil fuel subsidies is contested. Furthermore, fossil fuels subsidies can be framed in ways that emphasize, respectively, their macroeconomic, fiscal, environmental, and distributive consequences. The article finds that institutional interaction lifted OECD involvement in fossil fuel subsidies to a new level, whereas the impetus to address fossil fuel subsidies within the IMF came largely from the IMF staff. In both cases, the organization's bureaucracy constituted the most important factor shaping how the organizations addressed such subsidies and hence the main reason why they differ in how they approach fossil fuel subsidies.

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The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD

Skovgaard

2017

Int Environ Agreements

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“…Während der Industrialisierung haben sich Wirtschaft und Energiesysteme unter wechselseitiger Beeinflussung stark gewandelt (Sieferle 2010;Sieferle et al, 2006 (Cheon et al, 2013;G-20 Leaders, 2009;McLure, 2013 (Held et al, 2007).…”

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Band 3: Klimawandel in Österreich: Vermeidung und Anpassung. Kapitel 1: Emissionsminderung und Anpassung an den Klimawandel

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Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht Klimawandel 2014

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“…As a consequence, as reflected in Figure 15, the capacity of some OPEC countries for export is dwindling. As the red lines creep up toward the blue lines, the OPEC countries will be rendered increasingly vulnerable to revenue losses from reduced export prices (Cheon, Urpelainen, and Lackner, 2012;Krane, 2013. In Egypt, these lines crossed only a few years before the Arab Spring that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak; also in Indonesia the lines have crossed, causing the country to leave OPEC and coinciding with a strengthening of democracy.…”

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Future Petroleum Geopolitics: Consequences of Climate Policy and Unconventional Oil and Gas

Øverland

2015

Handbook of Clean Energy Systems

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Advances in unconventional oil and gas production and the possible adoption of a more effective international climate policy may impact on supply–demand balances in the petroleum sector, causing shifts in financial flows and capital accumulation. Such changes may in turn lead to shifts in the power balance between oil and gas exporting and importing countries. Because the relationship between exporting and importing countries in the petroleum sector is asymmetric, with a few exporting countries benefiting from the combined flows of revenue from many importing countries, exporting countries stand to lose more from a change in the status quo. The following interstate relationships may be particularly sensitive: the United States and the Gulf countries, Russia and the EU member states. Unconventional oil and gas may also play a role in the emerging superpower competition between China and the United States. The geopolitical changes one expects from unconventional oil and gas and climate policy depends on how one understands the current geopolitical situation in various parts of the world, and how strong the current geopolitical competition is seen to be.

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Why do governments subsidize gasoline consumption? An empirical analysis of global gasoline prices, 2002–2009

Cited by 102 publications

References 12 publications

The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD

The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD

Band 3: Klimawandel in Österreich: Vermeidung und Anpassung. Kapitel 1: Emissionsminderung und Anpassung an den Klimawandel

Future Petroleum Geopolitics: Consequences of Climate Policy and Unconventional Oil and Gas

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