Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318712 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade [ISSN:] 1573-7012 [Volume:] 25 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2025
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the impact of transparency regulations on Super 95 and Diesel prices in Austria, France, and Germany to shed new light on the price effects of regulatory policies. To identify the effects of regulation, we use publicly available data from January 2005 to the end of December 2018 and estimate synthetic difference-in-difference models. In summary, our findings reveal notable differences. While prices in France did not change significantly, the results for Austria suggest that the price-reducing effect of the 2011 Price Fixing Act was offset by the transparency policy, ultimately leading to a price increase for Super 95 prices. In Germany, the Market Transparency Unit (MTU) has a price-reducing effect of two to three cents per litre, especially in the long term.
Subjects: 
Fuel prices
Regulation
Market transparency
Synthetic difference-in-differences
Oligopoly
Competition
JEL: 
K21
K23
L13
L41
L51
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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