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This paper tests for price patterns in retail gasoline markets consistent with those predicted by models of implicit …
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A full understanding of how gasoline prices affect consumer behavior frequently requires information on how consumers … forecast future gasoline prices. We provide the first evidence on the nature of these forecasts by analyzing two decades of … data on gasoline price expectations from the Michigan Survey of Consumers. We find that average consumer beliefs are …
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It is often asserted that consumers undervalue future gasoline costs relative to purchase prices when they choose … time series variation in gasoline price forecasts. We then test the model using a detailed dataset based on 86 million … document how endogenous market shares and utilization, measurement error, and different gasoline price forecasts can affect the …
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the fact that many countries provide subsidies for gasoline and diesel. This paper examines global fuel subsidies using … the latest available data from the World Bank, finding that road-sector subsidies for gasoline and diesel totaled $110 …
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to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline … estimates suggest that a 10% increase in gasoline prices from 2005 levels will generate a 0.22% increase in fleet fuel economy …
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Understanding the sensitivity of gasoline demand to changes in prices and income has important implications for … income elasticities of gasoline demand in the United States have been studied extensively, the vast majority of these studies … the past several decades have changed the responsiveness of U.S. consumers to changes in gasoline prices. In this paper …
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Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel …
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Airline transport generates a growing share of global greenhouse gas emissions but as of late 2016, this sector has not faced U.S. fuel economy or emissions regulation. At any point in time, airlines own and lease a set of durable vehicles and have invested in human and physical capital and an...
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elasticities of demand for gasoline consumption. We have three main findings. First, our elasticity estimates of roughly -0.37 are …
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different fuel economies change in response to shocks to the price of gasoline, we estimate the relationship between vehicle …
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