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Edgeworth Price Cycles, Cost-Based Pricing and Sticky Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets

Noel, Michael D. - 2007

This paper examines dynamic pricing behavior in retail gasoline markets for 19 Canadian cities over 574 weeks. I find three distinct retail pricing patterns: 1. standard cost-based pricing, 2. sticky pricing, and 3. steep, asymmetric retail price cycles that, while seldom documented empirically,...

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The Shape and Frequency of Edgeworth Price Cycles in an Australian Retail Gasoline Market

Bloch, Harry; Wills-Johnson, Nick - 2010

Gasoline prices in many markets follow a saw-toothed pattern known as an Edgeworth Cycle. Lewis (2009) introduces a novel way of measuring the shape of the cycle, the median change in price, and regresses this against a number of explanatory variables in US markets. Here, we undertake a similar...

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Personnel policy and employment : essays in empirical labor economics

Bossler, Mario - 2015

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The impact of the internet on retail competition : evidence from technological differences in internet access

Gebhardt, Georg - 2010

retailing sectors, electronics (price competition), books (no price competition), and food (no online sales), to identify the …

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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities

Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016

Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...

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Measuring Market Power in Gasoline Retailing : A Market- or Station Phenomenon?

Nguyen, Mai - 2018

Applying detailed consecutive daily micro data at the gasoline station level from Sweden we estimate a structural model to uncover the degree of competition in the gasoline retail market. We find that retailers do exercise market power, but despite the high upstream concentration, the market...

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Measuring Market Power in Gasoline Retailing : A Market - or Station Phenomenon?

Nguyen, Mai - 2018

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Markups and inflation in oligopolistic markets : evidence from wholesale price data

Alexander, Patrick; Han, Lu; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Tomlin, Ben - 2024 - Last updated: May 28, 2024

We study how the interaction of market power and nominal price rigidity influences inflation dynamics. We formulate a tractable model of oligopolistic competition and sticky prices and derive closed-form expressions for the pass-through of idiosyncratic and common cost shocks to firms' prices....

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Heterogeneous pass-through over space and time : the case of Germany's fuel tax discount

Frondel, Manuel; Thiel, Patrick; Vance, Colin - 2024

Exploiting exogenous variation in retail fuel prices from a temporary fuel tax discount in Germany, we estimate how the pass-through of the discount varies over space and time. We draw on daily gasoline prices of virtually all gas stations in Germany and neighboring France, with France serving...

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Inflation targeting and product market deregulation

Moretti, Laura - 2012

I evaluate the effect of inflation targeting on inflation and how it interacts with product market deregulation during … market deregulation, the effect of inflation targeting is quantitatively important and statistically significant. Moreover …, product market deregulation also matters in particular in countries that adopted an inflation targeting regime. I propose a …

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