IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ila/anaeco/v24y2009i2p3-33.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Consumo de Gas Natural de Bolivia: Una Aplicación del Sistema Cuadratico casi Ideal de Demanda

Author

Listed:
  • Mauricio Medinaceli Monrroy

    (Coordinador de hidrocarburos de la organización latinoamericana de energía (olade))

Abstract

This document tries to quantify the possible impacts, on the natural gas consumption, of changes in the flat sale price, to the final consumer, for the natural gas distribution system in Bolivia, in particular, it was analyzed the progressivity of this policy on households from eight urban cities. The results obtained through the "Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System" (QUAIDS) suggest that, a lineal decrease of the natural gas price for all the families presents an important regressive component. The reason is clear, high income families can, with high probability, modify its durable goods portfolio and take advantage of the benefits from reduced prices. In this sense, non lineal prices could be an attractive instrument to achieve bigger progressivity inside the tariffs system on the natural gas distribution system in Bolivia. JEL Classification: D1; D3; D6; Q4.

Suggested Citation

  • Mauricio Medinaceli Monrroy, 2009. "Consumo de Gas Natural de Bolivia: Una Aplicación del Sistema Cuadratico casi Ideal de Demanda," Revista de Analisis Economico – Economic Analysis Review, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business, vol. 24(2), pages 3-33, Diciembre.
    • Handle: RePEc:ila:anaeco:v:24:y:2009:i:2:p:3-33
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/90
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    QUAIDS; natural gas; energy price.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
    • Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ila:anaeco:v:24:y:2009:i:2:p:3-33. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mauricio Tejada (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/deilacl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.