Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study
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Bloch, Harry
Wills-Johnson, Nick
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2010Type
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Bloch, Harry and Wills-Johnson, Nick. 2010. Gasoline price cycle drivers: An Australian case study, Centre for Research in Applied Economics Working Paper Series: no. 201007, Curtin University of Technology, School of Economics and Finance.
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Curtin Business School
The Centre of Research in Applied Economics (CRAE)
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School of Economics and Finance
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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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