Automakers' short-run responses to changing gasoline prices

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1198-1211

  Langer, Ashley ^a   Miller, Nathan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b United States Department of Justice   (United States)

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EID: 84886012314     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00297     Document Type: Article

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