gasoline stations had increased prices before the tax reduction. Such a price increase would have made it easier for gasoline …In this article, I analyze whether German gasoline stations passed on the gasoline tax reduction to consumers. I use a … stations to disguise a price increase. Further questions follow: How long did it take for the full tax reduction to be passed …

Diesel und 71 % für Benzin, wobei die Raten in Regionen mit hohem Einkommen und in Regionen mit geringem Wettbewerb deutlich …Exploiting exogenous variation in retail fuel prices from a temporary fuel tax discount in Germany, we estimate how the … pass-through of the discount varies over space and time. We draw on daily gasoline prices of virtually all gas stations in …

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 …

gasoline prices are used at the station level within the U.S., including observations from all fifty states and the District of … of January 1st, 2015, when five states have increased their gasoline sales taxes, while five other states have decreased … robust to the consideration of retailer characteristics, wholesale prices, retail brand effects and hourly price changes …

Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and … fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100 …-ups. Multivariate estimation indicates that the single cause "price change by competitors" is less important and nearly irrelevant for …

The paper presents univariate and panel unit root tests for gasoline and oil price convergence over the last decade. We … convergence ; law of one price ; gasoline ; international taxation ; European integration ; panel unit roots … test for the absolute versus relative version of the law of one price (LOOP) and estimate the speed of convergence as well …