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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"gasoline prices"”.
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The influence of gasoline prices and consideration sets on the fuel economy of new vehicle sales
… ultimately purchased. Our findings show that as gasoline prices rise, their purchased vehicle fuel economy increases more than their consideration set average fuel economy does, with both increasing. This is the result of considering more fuel-efficient vehicles and also purchasing higher within …
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Role of Speculation In Short-Term Us Oil Crude Prices and Gasoline Price Variability of the 2000S and the Role of Monetary Policy Price Stability Interventions
… analyze the short-run impact of futures contract prices on crude oil prices, the impact of crude oil prices on gasoline prices for consumers, and the effect of monetary policy interventions on the stability of the real price of oil for 2000-2008. In this study I used three sets of multivariate VEC …
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Hybrid & electric vehicle technology and its market feasibility
… The examination focuses on the effect of rising gasoline prices on the U.S. vehicle market for the periods which include three significant events involving gasoline prices: the Iran and Iraq war in 1979, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the recession of 2008. Finally, many parts of this thesis deal …
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Essays on gasoline price spikes, environmental regulation of gasoline content, and incentives for refinery operation
Since 1999, regional retail and wholesale gasoline markets in the United States have experienced significant price volatility, both intertemporally and across geographic markets. In particular, gasoline prices in California, Illinois and Wisconsin have spiked occasionally well above gasoline prices …
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Three essays on empirical industrial organization
… price adjustment phenomenon in the U.S. gasoline market. The first chapter shows how consumer search confers positive externalities to other consumers in the same market. These externalities can be either direct, by sharing information from prior searches and thus improving the …
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The Economics Of Gasoline Regulation: Price Impacts And Consumer Costs Of Environmental Air Quality Programs
This research examines economic impacts of two gasoline regulations designed to combat tropospheric ozone pollution. I construct several fixed effects econometric models to assess impacts of reformulated gasoline and low volatility gasoline on retail gasoline prices and consumer costs. I estimate …
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A Multidimensional Study of Transit Ridership and Station Mode Shares in the United States: Nonlinear Effects, Data Aggregation, and Post-Pandemic Changes
… ridership post-pandemic. Socioeconomic factors, gasoline prices, telecommuting, population density, employment density and polycentric development emerged as influential for bus ridership post-pandemic, while traditional factors like vehicle revenue miles, fare, transit coverage, and service …
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Essays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries
… through to consumers in the form of lower retail gasoline prices. There is also evidence that the discount policy affected refiners' political action. In particular, I find that discount receipts are associated with an increase in refiners' overall political donations, and that other types of …
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Economic analysis of biofuel production from Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) and Sweet Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in the United States
… is a promising option. Reduction in feedstock prices, optimization of the conversion process and additional revenues from by-products can make cellulosic ethanol more competitive with current gasoline prices.
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Political budget cycles in Latin America: fiscal policy effectiveness or regulated markets?
… provide insights on the effect of elections on gasoline prices (as a proxy for regulated markets) for a a panel of ten Latin American countries of annual data from 2001-2012. And we contribute to the literature by proposing a non parametric approach describing the relationship between prices in …
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Transit usage and urban form : lessons for transit reliant neighborhoods
… on parking, increase in automobile and gasoline prices, and guaranteed rides home for car-poolers. Does this imply that in the absence of punitive pricing on automobile usage, the transit services are doomed to fail? This Thesis argues that transit ridership depends more on the way …
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Assessing the fuel Use and greenhouse gas emissions of future light-duty vehicles in Japan
… of vehicle sales due to the recession and higher gasoline prices. In the analysis through 2030, the fleet model was run under four "sales mix scenarios," including a scenario which is based on the forecast by the Japanese Government. Even in the scenario without any sales mix change in the future, …
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A systematic architecting approach for supply chains
… After 2008, worldwide events such as fluctuating gasoline prices, increased labor costs in developing countries, volatile demand as a result of the economic recession, and environmental regulations and agreements have resulted in renewed scrutiny of supply chain design paradigms. These challenges …
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Four Essays on Applied Energy Economics and Policy
… sector. The second part (chapter 3 and 4) is on gasoline retail markets. The first chapter explores welfare implications of capacity markets in the electricity sector. We propose a theoretical model with cost heterogeneous firms, for which price and quantity equilibria are obtained both with and …
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Three essays on the links between agriculture and energy policies in the U.S.
… biofuel sub-mandate alone could increase biomass prices by an average of 50% to 100% over the baseline values. Biomass expenditures by sectors competing with biofuel producers increase by an average of 26% relative to the baseline suggesting those sectors cannot fully shift away from biomass …
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Fuel economy regulations and efficiency technology improvements in U.S. cars since 1975
… I next test the hypotheses that higher fuel prices and more stringent CAFE standards cause automotive rms to deploy eciency technologies more rapidly. I nd some evidence that higher fuel prices cause more rapid changes in technology, but little to no evidence that tighter CAFE standards …
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Essays in industrial organization
… effects of technological advances on the retail gasoline market. Since 2008, a Korean government website has posted daily prices of all gasoline stations. Combined with the rapid increase of smartphone and mobile technologies, this price information service may have changed the consumer search …
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Essays on the effects of market regulation
… decision of firms. I concentrate on the retail gasoline industry in Argentina. I study how the price regulation in place from 2004 to 2007 has affected the number of gas stations in the market and the price level after the regulation was eliminated. I approach the problem in two steps: firstly I …
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