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

majors in Germany. We assemble a high-frequency panel data set that encompasses millions of price observations and allows us … identical across brands, irrespective of the lag count, suggesting a high degree of competition among brands. … den fünf großen Tankstellenmarken. Dies spricht für eine sehr hohes Maß an Wettbewerb im deutschen Tankstellenmarkt. Die …

regulation seems to have fostered competition between fuel retailers. …

Drawing on panel data on daily fuel prices covering over 5,000 filling stations in Germany, this paper documents a …Dieses Paper analysiert einen Paneldatensatz täglicher Kraftstoffpreise von über 5000 Tankstellen in Deutschland und …

We explore whether non-competitive pricing prevails in Germany’s retail gasoline market by examining the influence of … the crude oil price on the retail gasoline price, focusing specifically on how this influence varies according to the … brand and to the degree of competition in the vicinity of the station. Our analysis identifies several factors other than …