2003-09-02
Price assymetry in the Dutch retail gasoline market
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This paper analyses retail price adjustments in the Dutch gasoline market. We estimate an asymmetric error correction model on weekly price changes for the years 1996 to 2001. We construct five datasets, one for each working day. The conclusions on asymmetric pricing are shown to differ over these datasets, suggesting that the choice of the day for which prices are observed matters more than commonly believed. In our view, the insufficient robustness of outcomes might explain the mixed conclusions found in the literature. Using two approaches, we also show that the effect of asymmetry on Dutch consumer costs is negligible.
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| Organisation | Research Centre for Economic Policy (OCFEB) |
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Bettendorf, L., van der Geest, S., & Varkevisser, M. (2003). Price assymetry in the Dutch retail gasoline market. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/810 |
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