Domestic Petroleum Price Smoothing in Developing and Transition Countries /

This paper examines the case for government-led smoothing of domestic petroleum prices in the face of volatile international prices. Governments in most developing and transition countries engage in petroleum price smoothing, as the survey of country practice carried out for this paper shows. This p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bingham, Benedict
Other Authors: Daniel, James, Federico, Giulio
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/075
Online Access:Full text available on IMF