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Estimating the Impact of Energy Price Reform on Saudi Arabian Intergenerational Welfare using the MEGIR-SA Model

Frédéric Gonand, Fakhri J. Hasanov, and Lester C. Hunt

Year: 2019
Volume: Volume 40
Number: Number 3
DOI: 10.5547/01956574.40.3.fgon
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This paper investigates the intergenerational welfare impact of raising administered retail energy prices in Saudi Arabia, an example of an oil-exporting country with a fast growing population. To achieve this, we develop a dynamic model with overlapping generations (called MEGIR-SA), which we believe is the first empirical application of its type to be developed for an oil-exporting country. The model is used to analyze the effects of the increase in some Saudi administered energy prices implemented at the end of December 2015. In particular, the model analyzes how these price increases might affect the welfare of Saudis through a direct increase in energy expenditures, an indirect rise in Saudi public income stemming from a lower domestic demand for oil that fosters oil exports at a given level of domestic oil production, and a direct increase of the turnover of the energy sector. The two latter effects can be redistributed by the Saudi public authorities to private agents through higher current public spending and/or public investment. The analysis suggests that the increase in end-user energy prices results in a net overall favorable effect on the intertemporal welfare of all households. This mirrors the impact on the income of private agents of the surplus in public oil income associated with lower domestic consumption of oil products and recycled to private agents. Moreover, it is shown that the additional oil income associated with the increase in domestic energy prices tends to be relatively more beneficial to future generations if it is recycled through public investment. This is reinforced if the future price of oil remains relatively low. In a possible future situation of declining oil prices and domestic production, a policy that would help meet the Saudi Arabian objectives may consist of gradually increasing the fraction of the additional oil income that is recycled through public capital spending.



The Role of the Petrochemical Sector's Exports in the Diversification of the Saudi Economy. A Scenario Analysis of the Foreign and Domestic Price Shocks

Fakhri J. Hasanov, Muhammad Javid, and Heyran Aliyeva

Year: 2024
Volume: Volume 45
Number: Special Issue
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Saudi Arabia's petrochemical sector accounts for a significant portion of non-oil exports and has the potential to contribute significantly to the Kingdom's diversification. In this study, Autometrics-a machine learning method, was first employed to estimate export equations of chemicals and rubber-plastics for 1993-2020. The estimated equations were then integrated into a macroeconometric model called KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM) and a scenario analysis was performed for the diversification effects of foreign and domestic price shocks till 2035.The scenario analysis showed that a 10% increase in foreign prices leads to 0.40 percentage point and 0.13 percentage point more diversified exports and economy on average for 2023-2035. Regarding domestic prices, a 19% increase in industrial fossil fuel prices and a 10% increase in ethane price result in less than a 0.1 percentage point contraction in the diversification of exports and economy if the revenues from the price reforms are not recycled back to the economy. The reforms can boost economic diversification by 0.05 percentage point if the revenues are recycled back to the petrochemical sector as an investment. If domestic price reforms are coupled with the investment in the petrochemical sector and 50% of this investment goods are locally produced, then diversification of Saudi export and economy enlarge considerably-by 0.20 percentage point and 0.26 percentage point, respectively.





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