Publication: Changes in End-User Petroleum Product Prices : A Comparison of 48 Countries
Date
2009-02
ISSN
Published
2009-02
Author(s)
Kojima, Masami
Abstract
This paper presents retail prices of the
petroleum products in August 2008 in up to 56 countries, and
examines the degree of pass through to consumers of
increases in world gasoline and diesel prices since January
2004 in 48 countries. This is the second paper in a series
summarizing work undertaken to assess the implications of
higher oil prices on fuel use, the downstream petroleum
sector, and household fuel consumption in the developing
world. It follows a recent publication on a decomposition
analysis of vulnerability to oil price increases, where
vulnerability is defined as the percentage of gross domestic
product (GDP) spent on net imports of crude oil and
petroleum products (Bacon and Kojima 2008). This paper
focuses on the extent to which international petroleum
product price increases have been passed on to consumers.
Citation
“Kojima, Masami. 2009. Changes in End-User Petroleum Product Prices : A Comparison of 48 Countries. Extractive industries and development series;no. 2. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18401 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”