Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58184 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 51
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
Increasing price levels, high price volatility and the suspicion of collusive behavior are important topics of public debates on competition in retail gasoline markets in many countries. Several governments and competition authorities introduced fuel price regulations in form of restrictions on the frequencies of fuel price changes per day. We present empirical evidence of the effects of fuel price regulation in Austria and Western Australia using difference-in-differences methods to estimate treatment effects of the implementation of such pricing rules. Our estimates provide evidence that fuel price levels in Austria decreased after implementation of regulation. However, we cannot find robust significant effects of regulation on fuel price levels in Western Australia.
JEL: 
K2
K23
L5
L51
L71
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-050-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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