Data for: Who pays and who gains from fuel policies in Brazil?

Abstract of associated article: Brazil has pursued a mix of policy interventions in the fuel sector to achieve multiple objectives of economic and social development, promoting biofuels and reducing dependence on oil. We develop an economic framework to provide insight on the fuel policy choices in Brazil and to analyze the trade-offs they have engendered in the fuel and sugar sectors. We also examine their distributional impacts on producers and consumers in the sugar, oil and biofuel sectors and on government revenues. Additionally, we undertake a normative analysis for the purpose of comparing the welfare and environmental impacts of existing policies with those justified by the goal of maximizing social welfare and addressing market failure. The ex-post analysis of the outcomes for different stakeholders in the fuel and sugar sectors provides insights on the likely political-economic factors guiding policy choices. We find that the status quo policies are likely to have been motivated by the objectives of increasing oil exports, raising government revenue and promoting rural development through the sugarcane sector and have had a significant adverse effect on fuel and sugar consumers, aggregate social welfare and greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil.

相关文章摘要：巴西在燃料领域实施了一系列政策干预措施，旨在实现经济和社会发展的多重目标，推广生物燃料并减少对石油的依赖。本研究构建了一个经济框架，旨在深入探讨巴西的燃料政策选择，并分析其所引发的燃料和糖业领域的权衡。同时，我们亦审视了这些政策对糖业、石油和生物燃料产业的生产者和消费者，以及政府收入的分配影响。此外，我们还进行了规范性分析，以比较现有政策与旨在最大化社会福利和解决市场失灵目标所支持的政策在福利和环境影响方面的差异。对燃料和糖业领域不同利益相关者的后验分析揭示了指导政策选择的潜在政治经济因素。研究发现，现状政策可能旨在提高石油出口、增加政府收入以及通过甘蔗产业促进农村发展，并对巴西的燃料和糖业消费者、整体社会福利以及温室气体排放产生了显著的负面影响。