Authors
1 Associate Professor, Sharif University of Technology, Department of Economics
2 Graduate student,Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
Decreasing trend of gasoline real price accompanied with economic growth and increasing number of automobiles have resulted in high consumption of gasoline in Iran. The average growth rate of hidden subsidies in the recent years is amounted 8.5 percent, and the size of gasoline subsidies has been more than government tax revenues for many years. The average growth rate of gasoline consumption has also been 10 percent in recent years. ,. The huge financial burden of imported gasoline and the amount of required subsidies have made it indispensable to make a serious change in the pricing policy of oil products. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the distortionary effects of gasoline price control on output, employment, prices, wages and income distribution, using a CGE model. Our findings show that, a 100% increase in the gasoline price will result in the increase of consumer’s and product’s prices and wage in short run, but it will decrease households’ income and the price of capital in the long run.
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