The dramatic increase in gasoline prices from close to $1 in 1999 to $4 at their peak in 2008 made it much more … expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …

Daily city-level expenditures and prices are used to estimate the price responsiveness of gasoline demand in the U ….S. Using a frequency of purchase model that explicitly acknowledges the distinction between gasoline demand and gasoline … expenditures, we consistently find the price elasticity of demand to be an order of magnitude larger than estimates from recent …

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 …

patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a … consumption data to examine how caloric requirements coupled with household expenditures shape food demand. Our applications …

reflects both the high pre-existing tax on petrol fuel and the high own-price elasticities of fuel demand in India. A tax on …

We present and test an explanation for lags in the adjustment of wholesale gasoline prices to changes in crude oil … model predicts that futures prices for gasoline will adjust incompletely to crude oil price shocks occurring close to the … prices in 188 local wholesale gasoline markets and find evidence that greater market power leads to slower output price …

What are the implications of gasoline price volatility for the design of fuel economy policies? I show that this … of gasoline. When the regulator is constrained to use a fixed standard, I show that the usual approach to setting the … bind if the realized gasoline price is sufficiently high. Instead, the optimal fixed standard will be relatively relaxed …

This paper tests for price patterns in retail gasoline markets consistent with those predicted by models of implicit … relative to expected future profit: collusive prices are higher when predictable changes in demand or cost lead firms to expect … increase when demand is expected to increase and/or costs are expected to decline. Using panel data on sales volume, and retail …

influences used car fleets under policies aimed at reducing gasoline use. Large scrap elasticities will tend to produce emissions … we relate through time via differential effects in gasoline cost: A gasoline price increase or decrease of $1 alters the …