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Asymmetric Price Adjustments in a Deregulated Gasoline Market

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Asymmetric Price Adjustments in a Deregulated Gasoline Market
 
Creator Salas, J.M. Ian S.; School of Economics
University of the Philippines Diliman
Quezon City
 
Subject Asymmetric pricing; deregulation; gasoline; pricing behavior
 
Description This paper employs ordered probit, partial adjustment, and vector error correction models to characterize price adjustments in the Philippine retail gasoline market since its deregulation. It finds that pricing decisions of oil firms depend significantly on eight weeks of previous changes in crude cost. It shows that the speed of adjustment of retail prices to their long-run equilibrium relation with crude cost has been following an accelerating trend but is vulnerable to intervening factors. Lastly, it provides empirical evidence that pump prices respond more quickly and fully to increases in crude cost rather than to decreases. JEL classification: D40, L11, L81
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
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Date 2010-09-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/55
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 39, No 1 (2002); 38-71
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/55/560
 
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