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Asymmetric gasoline price responses in France

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  • Olivier Lamotte

    (ESG Management School - ESG Management School)

  • Thomas Porcher

    (ESG Research Lab - ESG Management School)

  • Christophe Schalck
  • Stephan Silvestre

Abstract

This article examines the response of gasoline prices in France to shocks to crude oil prices in the international market. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach of cointegration, we investigate potential price asymmetries in the French diesel and premium gasoline markets using weekly data over the period from May 1990 to April 2011. We find that gasoline prices gradually adjust towards a long-term equilibrium after a shock to the crude oil price, but this adjustment is lower when the crude oil price decreases than when it increases. We also find that the estimates differ slightly depending on the chosen gasoline price.

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  • Olivier Lamotte & Thomas Porcher & Christophe Schalck & Stephan Silvestre, 2013. "Asymmetric gasoline price responses in France," Post-Print hal-02907097, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02907097
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.714063
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