14 December 2005
“A refiner fearing that a currently profitable spread will disappear, can buy a crack spread put option. A large user of refined products fearing that the spread will grow while the price of crude oil is stable, can buy a crack spread call option to compensate for potentially large increases in petroleum product prices when refinery margins grow…”
Creation of Market Centered Institutions: A Step towards Power Reforms
“Tariffs remain regulated because electricity is widely seen as a vital social good too sensitive to abandon to market forces. Thus the question for analysts of the political economy of power sector restructuring is not whether tariffs remain regulated but, rather, how political forces are arrayed to determine the allocation of tariffs…”
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