Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study

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 ga...

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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/20.500.11937/34003
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description 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.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-340032017-01-30T13:40:37Z Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study Bloch, Harry Wills-Johnson, Nick Edgeworth Cycles retail gasoline 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. 2010 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34003 Centre for Research in Applied Economics, Curtin Business School fulltext
spellingShingle Edgeworth Cycles
retail gasoline
Bloch, Harry
Wills-Johnson, Nick
Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
title Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
title_full Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
title_fullStr Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
title_full_unstemmed Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
title_short Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
title_sort gasoline price cycle drivers: an australian case study
topic Edgeworth Cycles
retail gasoline
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34003