Testing for asymmetric pricing in the Canadian retail gasoline market

Energy Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 349-368

  Godby, Rob ^a   Lintner, Anastasia M ^b   Stengos, Thanasis ^c   Wandschneider, Bo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Asymmetric pricing; Gasoline; Price competition; Threshold Autoregressive model

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ERROR CORRECTION; GASOLINE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASYMMETRIC PRICING; THRESHOLD AUTOREGRESSION MODELS;

ENERGY POLICY;

ENERGY MARKET; PETROLEUM; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CANADA;

EID: 0034126636     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-9883(99)00030-4     Document Type: Article

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