Die starken Preissteigerungen für Benzin in den letzten 2 Jahren sind häufig auf mangelnden Wettbewerb zurückgeführt … von den internationalen Preisentwicklungen sowie den Steuersätzen bestimmt werden. Der Wettbewerb an den Tankstellen …

To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so … margins of gas stations. We find that the MTU fostered a more intense competition, with a reduction in price margins of 1 …-called Market Transparency Unit for Fuels (MTU). Drawing on a panel data set covering 6,834 stations in Germany and employing both …

Several competition authorities have accused petrol retailers of engaging in collusive conduct, which results in … alleged “excessive” prices as well as simultaneous price setting across filling stations. However, petrol retailers must exert … a substantial amount of market power if they are to dampen competition. Therefore, we propose a method within the spirit …

competition authorities alike. In this paper, we empirically investigate how and why price levels differ across gasoline stations …Price levels and movements on gasoline and diesel markets are heavily debated among consumers, policy-makers, and … in Germany, using eight months of data from a novel panel data set including price quotes from virtually all German …

-run gasoline demand that is significantly greater than would be expected from an equivalent increase in the market price of … gasoline. That the carbon tax is more salient, or yields a larger change in demand than equivalent market price movements, is …-determined price …

Many empirical studies state that retail gasoline and diesel prices react more quickly when the crude oil price rises …. The model allows us to compute average one-gallon gasoline and diesel price biases from the increase in oil by one dollar … gasoline and diesel reaction functions. The correspondent model is estimated with the system's generalised method of moments …

Consumers face significantly different gasoline prices across gas stations. Using gasoline price data obtained from 98 … gasoline price changes among consumers, where the welfare costs of an increase in gasoline prices are found to be higher for …,753 gas stations within the U.S., it is shown that such differences can be explained by a model utilizing the gasoline demand …