Do retail gasoline prices rise more readily than they fall?. A threshold cointegration approach

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 560-574

  Al Gudhea, Salim ^a   Kenc, Turalay ^b   Dibooglu, Sel ^c  

^a Joatha Informatics Consulting Center   (Saudi Arabia)

^b BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric adjustment; Gasoline prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848830905     PISSN: 01486195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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