This paper surveys the empirical literature on gasoline retailing, which has been growing
rapidly over the last three decades, possibly in response to antitrust and regulatory concerns …

We point out a fundamental difficulty of successfully colluding in retail markets with
heterogeneous firms, and characterize the mechanism recent gasoline cartels in Canada …

We empirically investigate how and why price levels differ across gasoline stations, using
the first full year from a novel panel data set including price quotes from virtually all gas …

Price levels and movements on gasoline and diesel markets are heavily debated among
consumers, policy-makers, and competition authorities alike. In this paper, we empirically …

In January 2011, a price regulation was established in the Austrian gasoline market which
prohibits firms from raising their prices more than once per day. Similar restrictions have …

This paper studies the role of cost asymmetries and product differentiation on cartel
sustainability by drawing data from a failed retail cartel. Unlike the extensive theoretical …

The digital revolution of pricing enables retailers to change their prices more frequently than
ever before. While the industry endorses this development, critics fear it could foster …

We study price cycles in the German retail gasoline market. We extend existing models of
Bertrand competition by product differentiation, firm size and business hours. With …

This policy brief analyzes how New York State's recently proposed Climate Change
Superfund Act (the Act) is most likely to affect consumer gasoline prices. The Act establishes …

Gasoline retail markets have traditionally attracted a lot of attention from researchers and
policy makers. This paper reviews 2 sets of questions studied by economists related to this …