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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"retail gasoline markets"”.
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Edgeworth price cycles in retail gasoline markets
… price-setting behavior of firms in Canadian retail gasoline markets. In the first essay, I examine behavior at the market level for 19 Canadian cities over 574 weeks. I find three distinct pricing patterns: 1. standard cost-based pricing, 2. sticky pricing, and 3. steep, asymmetric retail …
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… umbrella of studying the behavior of firms and markets through the use of empirical techniques and data-based approaches. The first chapter, written in collaboration with Carlos Hurtado, investigates the pricing strategies of gas stations in the United States. Retail gasoline markets feature …
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Essays on urban economics and public finance
… 1, I use unique data on locations and prices of gasoline retailers in the United States to estimate the effect of discontinuities on gasoline taxes on business location decisions and tax incidence. The econometric analysis shows that the expected number of gasoline stations on the low-tax side of …