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Many supermarkets offer grocery-gasoline bundled discounts, whereby a supermarket customer whose grocery purchase … exceeds a certain dollar amount is offered a gasoline price discount. I use the difference-in-differences method and an ideal … gasoline price data set to study such programs' effects on retail gasoline competition in a specific market. A program's effect …
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Facing a fiscal crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran decided to increase gasoline prices at the end of 2019. This paper …. Despite very regressive gasoline subsidies benefitting the rich the most, the increase in gasoline prices is found to affect …
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We study the relation between gasoline prices and Google searches for the term “gasoline prices”. Utilizing the … framework of a vector autoregressive model and Granger causality, we find a two-way relationship between gasoline prices and … in the other variable. Moreover, we find the strongest evidence for causality from Google searches to gasoline prices …
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has received particular attention in retail gasoline where, worryingly, larger asymmetry has been related to greater … market power. Using novel data from urban and rural gasoline markets, I document new evidence on this relationship by …
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This paper studies equilibrium selection in the retail gasoline industry. We exploit a unique dataset that contains the …
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The conventional wisdom that inflation expectations respond to the level of the price of oil (or the price of gasoline … support for the conventional wisdom. Using a new structural vector regression model, however, we demonstrate that gasoline … explained by a large increase in gasoline prices. However, on average, gasoline price shocks account for only 39% of the …
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The motivation for this paper began with casual empiricisms regarding the brief distributed lag of retail gasoline … consistent and efficient estimator of the actual gasoline prices over most of our sample period. However, random shocks to … gasoline prices, like Hurricane Ike in 2008, cause the model to have problems accurately predicting gas prices. We conclude …
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Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel …
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Airline transport generates a growing share of global greenhouse gas emissions but as of late 2016, this sector has not faced U.S. fuel economy or emissions regulation. At any point in time, airlines own and lease a set of durable vehicles and have invested in human and physical capital and an...
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