"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on … "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other …

Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate … fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector …. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital …

This supplement presents country case studies reviewing energy subsidy reform experiences, which are the basis for the … in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The case studies are organized by energy product, with 14 studies of the … description of the reforms; discussion of the impact of the reform on energy prices or subsidies and its success or failure …

This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor … analysis partitions observed inflation in EU25 countries into common-origin and country-specific (idiosyncratic) components …. Cross-country differences in common-origin inflation within the EU are found to depend on gaps in the initial price level …