IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/aep/anales/4752.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Combining energy subsidies is not free: distributional effects and energy poverty

Author

Listed:
  • Poggiese Milena
  • Ibáñez Martín María María

Abstract

In Argentina, energy subsidies play a central role in the National Treasury’s expenditures. After the pandemic, changes were made to two of the most significant subsidy policies: the Zona Fria Law and the universal residential subsidy. The Zona Fria Law was extended in 2021, and residential tariffs began to be segmented in 2022. Both subsidies and their respective modifications have distributive effects on the population and have a substantial impact on energy deprivation. The primary objective of this study is to examine whether the changes in subsidy policies have contributed to alleviating energy poverty in Argentina and reducing territorial inequalities. By applying a distributive incidence analysis of energy expenditure using various indicators, it is found that the combination of subsidy policies—each with different motivations—creates distorting effects.

Suggested Citation

  • Poggiese Milena & Ibáñez Martín María María, 2024. "Combining energy subsidies is not free: distributional effects and energy poverty," Asociación Argentina de Economía Política: Working Papers 4752, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política.
    • Handle: RePEc:aep:anales:4752
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://aaep.org.ar/works/works2024/4752.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

    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:aep:anales:4752. 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: Juan Manuel Quintero (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeppea.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.