Do Gasoline Prices Respond Asymmetrically to Crude Oil Price Changes?
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 112 (1) , 305-339
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355397555118
Abstract
We test and confirm that retail gasoline prices respond more quickly to increases than to decreases in crude oil prices. Among the possible sources oKeywords
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