The purpose of the present paper is to test for asymmetry in the Greek retail gasoline price adjustments to crude oil price changes for the period January 2005-July 2012.The empirical analysis provides evidence that the adjustment of gasoline prices to oil price changes is asymmetric, in...

Efficient pricing in the gasoline market has often been the subject of public debate in Greece during the recent years. The present paper: (a) Investigates the possible existence of asymmetric adjustment of gasoline prices to oil price variations in the Greek market in the recent years, thus...

The present paper investigates whether Greek gasoline prices respond symmetrically to changes in international oil prices. The study uses all available observations and applies the TAR (Threshold Auto-Regressive) methodology, which is considered to be the most reliable econometric technique...

The pricing mechanism in the gasoline market has often been the subject of public debate inGreece during the crisis years. Inefficient pricing could imply oligopolistic practices in themarket and losses to consumers’ welfare in a period characterised by a dramatic fall inconsumers’ income...

The present paper investigates whether Greek gasoline prices respond symmetrically to changes in international oil prices. The study uses all available observations and applies the TAR (Threshold Auto-Regressive) methodology, which is considered to be the most reliable econometric technique...