This article provides an overview of the burgeoning academic literature on price dynamics and price cycles in retail petrol markets. I first present evidence of petrol price cycles, and studies that describe what types of petrol markets tend to exhibit price cycles. I further discuss empirical...

In this paper, we examine whether energy prices are cyclical and begin by looking at why the price of any good would be cyclical. With few explainable and largely insignificant exceptions, we find that energy prices are not responsive to the U.S. business cycle. We find that crude oil and...

The grouping of Wolf numbers, Brent crude oil prices and metal price indexes over the years of the average solar cycle Schwabe allowed the author to establish their strong ties.As a result, it became possible to predict oil prices on the basis of the predicted values of Wolf numbers according to...

We contribute to the task of identifying trends and cycles in energy prices by examining very long series of prices for coal and oil, going back to 1650 in the case of coal and 1859 in the case of oil. We find annual rates of increase in real price of greater than two percent are found for coal...