Oil price volatility and the asymmetric response of gasoline prices to oil price increases and decreases

Energy Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 708-730

  Radchenko, Stanislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric response; Gasoline price response; Search theory

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ASYMMETRIC RESPONSE; GASOLINE PRICE RESPONSE; SEARCH THEORY;

GASOLINE;

OIL; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 23944508775     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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