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Fossil fuel prices and the economic and budgetary challenges of a small energy-importing economy: the case of Portugal
Alfredo Pereira (Pereira, A.); Rui Pereira (Pereira, R.);
Título Revista
Portuguese Economic Journal
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2013
Língua
Inglês
País
Alemanha
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Abstract/Resumo
This paper examines the economic and budgetary impacts of fuel prices using a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Portuguese economy which highlights the mechanisms of endogenous growth and includes a detailed modeling of the public sector. The fuel price scenarios are based on forecasts by the US Department of Energy (DOE-US) and the International Energy Agency (IEA-OECD) and represent a wide range of projections for absolute and relative fossil fuel prices. In terms of the long term economic impact, our results suggest a 1.9 % drop in GDP in the DOE-US scenario and 1.6 % in the IEA-OECD scenario. As to the budgetary impact, higher fuel prices lead to lower tax revenues, which, coupled with a reduction in public spending, translate into lower public deficits. Accordingly, increasing fuel prices create an important policy trade off in that they can contribute to reducing the public deficit while hindering economic growth. We find that fairly strong incentives for wind energy can reduce the economic impact of fuel prices by 14.2 % in the DOE-US price scenario and 18.5 % reduction in the IEA-OECD price scenario. Finally, our results highlight the importance of public sector spending decisions and the mechanisms of endogenous growth in understanding the impact of fossil fuel prices. Indeed, a scenario of higher fuel prices would, with exogenous public decisions and exogenous economic growth assumptions, result in substantially smaller economic effects and yield adverse budgetary effects.
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Palavras-chave
Fuel prices,Economic performance,Budgetary consolidation,Dynamic general equilibrium,Endogenous growth,Portugal
  • Economia e Gestão - Ciências Sociais
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Referência de financiamento Entidade Financiadora
PTDC/ECO/72065/2006 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia