Empirical studies of gasoline retailing: A guide to the literature

A Eckert - Journal of economic surveys, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper surveys the empirical literature on gasoline retailing, which has been growing
rapidly over the last three decades, possibly in response to antitrust and regulatory concerns …

Algorithmic pricing and competition: Empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market

S Assad, R Clark, D Ershov… - Journal of Political …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP)
and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany's retail gasoline market …

Spatial differentiation and vertical mergers in retail markets for gasoline

JF Houde - American Economic Review, 2012 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies an empirical model of spatial competition applied to gasoline markets.
The main feature is to specify commuting paths as the “locations''of consumers in a Hotelling …

Competition and pass-through: evidence from isolated markets

C Genakos, M Pagliero - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We measure how pass-through varies with competition in isolated oligopolistic markets with
captive consumers. Using daily pricing data from gas stations on small Greek islands, we …

Who benefits from information disclosure? the case of retail gasoline

F Luco - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019 - aeaweb.org
How does online price disclosure affect competition when both consumers and firms can
use the disclosed information? This paper addresses this question exploiting the sequential …

Collusion with asymmetric retailers: Evidence from a gasoline price-fixing case

R Clark, JF Houde - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2013 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We point out a fundamental difficulty of successfully colluding in retail markets with
heterogeneous firms, and characterize the mechanism recent gasoline cartels in Canada …

The effect of explicit communication on pricing: Evidence from the collapse of a gasoline cartel

R Clark, JF Houde - The Journal of Industrial Economics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We study the collapse of collusion in Q uébec's retail gasoline market following a C
ompetition B ureau investigation, and show that it involved two empirical regularities: high …

Information and price dispersion: Theory and evidence

D Pennerstorfer, P Schmidt‐Dengler… - International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Limited information is the key element generating price dispersion in models of
homogeneous‐goods markets. We show that the global relationship between information …

Fuel prices and station heterogeneity on retail gasoline markets

J Haucap, U Heimeshoff, M Siekmann - The Energy Journal, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We empirically investigate how and why price levels differ across gasoline stations, using
the first full year from a novel panel data set including price quotes from virtually all gas …

Public Sector Contracting Model for Management of Construction Tender Price Volatility

C Kahanji, EM Mwanaumo - Journal of Construction Project …, 2023 - journals.uj.ac.za
Construction tender price volatility threatens desirable infrastructure push in the public
sector. The damaging effects of escalating tender prices outweigh the socioeconomic …