Download This PaperGasoline Price Cycle Drivers: An Australian Case Study
39 Pages Posted: 26 Feb 2010
Date Written: February 24, 2010
Abstract
In many retail gasoline markets, prices follow a saw-toothed cycle first posited by Edgeworth (1925) and formalised by Maskin & Tirole (1988). A growing literature explores driving factors behind such cycles, most particularly in Canada and the US. This paper explores price cycles in a retail gasoline market in Australia with a unique regulatory environment that provides a census of data. We make use of a threshold regression model, and pay particular attention to local market effects and market structure. Both are novel in the study of retail petroleum prices.
Keywords: Edgeworth Cycles, retail gasoline
JEL Classification: C65, L13, L81
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