Ukraine gas pricing policy : distributional consequences of tariff increases / / prepared by Pritha Mitra and Ruben Atoyan

• Autore: Mitra Pritha <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : International Monetary Fund, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (24 p.)
• Disciplina: 300
• Soggetto topico: Natural gas - Prices - Ukraine; Natural gas - Economic aspects - Ukraine
• Altri autori: AtoyanRuben
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Abstract; Contents; A. Introduction; B. Stylized Facts: Economic Implications of Gas Sector Subsidies; C. Theory: Implications of Higher Gas and Heating Tariffs; D. Model; E. Results; F. Conclusions; Tables; 1. Summary Statistics; 2. Determinants of Heating Demand; 3. Determinants of Gas Demand; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Ukraine’s gas pricing policy subsidizes gas and heating for all households. As the cost of imported gas rises, this policy increasingly weighs on government finances, sustains energy over-consumption, dampens investment in delivery systems, and undermines incentives for domestic production. However, gas price hikes have been deferred to the medium-term as they are politically unpopular. Through estimation of household demand functions by income quintiles to evaluate the distributional consequences of tarrif reform, this paper finds that tariff reforms combined with targeted social support can address the economic inefficiencies of the current pricing policy without large welfare costs to the lower income segments of the population.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ukraine gas pricing policy
• ISBN: 1-4755-1289-9; 1-4755-1288-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820496903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2012/247