The shape and frequency of Edgeworth price cycles in an Australian retail gasoline market

Gasoline prices in many markets follow a saw-toothed pattern known as an Edgeworth Cycle. Lewis (2009) introduces a novel way of measuring the shape of the cycle, the median change in price, and regresses this against a number of explanatory variables in US markets. Here, we undertake a similar regr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bloch, Harry, Wills-Johnson, Nick
Format: Working Paper
Published: Centre for Research in Applied Economics, Curtin Business School 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30596