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-user prices differs significantly by fuel and country. Some countries fully pass through global price movements to domestic end … international price volatility onto domestic consumers for eight fuels between December 2017 and December 2023 for up to 125 … economies, depending on the fuel. This period saw significant oil price volatility on account of events such as the COVID-19 …
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complex in a large country that determines the biodiesel price, reflecting market equilibrium changes resulting from … volatility in the crude oil price. Oilseed crushing produces joint products -- oil and meal -- and this weakens the link between … both canola and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel, an increase in the crude oil price leads to higher canola prices …
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This paper develops a global model of climate policy, focusing on the choice between tax and cap-and-trade solutions. The analysis assumes that the world can be split into two regions, with two fuels that both lead to carbon emissions. Region A consumes all fuels, and is responsible for defining...
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emissions through fuel substitution or transportation service demand reduction, this study estimates own- and cross-price … among fuels for transportation. The study also finds that price-induced changes that lead to an increase in the rate of …
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There is a debate among policy analysts about whether fuel taxes alone are the most effective policy to reduce fuel use by motorists, or whether to also use mandatory standards for fuel efficiency. A problem with a policy mandating fuel economy standards is the "rebound effect," whereby owners...
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This paper documents new facts about the joint evolution of firm performance and prices in international markets and proposes a theory of firm dynamics emphasizing the interaction between learning about demand and quality choice to explain the observed patterns. Using data from the Portuguese...
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What is the welfare effect of a price change? This simple question is one of the most relevant and controversial … these choices result in different welfare measurement under different price shock scenarios. As a rule of thumb and … irrespective of parameter choices, welfare measures converge to approximately the same result for price changes below 10 percent …
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to reduce fuel prices, most for gasoline. Absolute "pass-through" of crude oil price changes to fuel prices is found to …
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This paper addresses the role of market remoteness in explaining maize price volatility in Burkina Faso. A model of … price formation is introduced to demonstrate formally that transport costs between urban and rural markets exacerbate maize … price volatility. Empirical support is provided to the proposition by exploring an unusually rich data set of monthly maize …
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This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. The authors use exchange rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to...
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