IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/wirtsc/v102y2022i8d10.1007_s10273-022-3264-7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Wirkung der Energiesteuersenkung auf Kraftstoff preise
[Effect of Energy Tax Reduction on Fuel Prices]

Author

Listed:
  • Volker Brühl

    (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Abstract

The German federal government intended to alleviate the burden of increasing fuel prices by introducing a temporary reduction of energy taxes on gasoline and diesel. In order to evaluate the impact of this measure on consumer prices at the filling stations the development of procurement costs for crude oil as well as the downstream development of refinery and distribution margins have to be taken into account. It turns out that about 80 % of the tax reduction has been passed on to end consumers on and around the effective date of the tax relief. However, within the first month the impact of the tax reduction has been wiped out for diesel completely as the gross margin of the mineral oil groups have substantially improved since then. On the other hand, for gasoline (E10) at least part of the impact can still be observed as the initial margin improvement has come down in the meantime. For a detailed analysis the German antitrust authority should look into the pricing algorithms of all 14,000 filling stations in Germany.

Suggested Citation

  • Volker Brühl, 2022. "Wirkung der Energiesteuersenkung auf Kraftstoff preise [Effect of Energy Tax Reduction on Fuel Prices]," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 102(8), pages 652-654, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:102:y:2022:i:8:d:10.1007_s10273-022-3264-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-022-3264-7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10273-022-3264-7
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10273-022-3264-7?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Q02; Q40;

    JEL classification:

    • Q02 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Commodity Market
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:102:y:2022:i:8:d:10.1007_s10273-022-3264-7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.