An investigation into the relationship of retail gas prices on oil company profitabilityy

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 4033-4041

  Ford, George S ^a  

^a Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; CRUDE OIL; OIL INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY; RETAILING;

EID: 79961073334     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036841003781486     Document Type: Article

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