A tale of two cities: Price uniformity and price volatility in gasoline retailing

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-46

  Eckert, Andrew ^a   West, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS INDUSTRY; MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 1642383688     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-003-0144-y     Document Type: Article

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