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Search Costs, Lags and Prices at the Pump

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Volume (Year): 20 (2002)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 33-50
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Keywords: Asymmetric responses; lags; search costs;

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  8. Benabou, Roland & Gertner, Robert, 1993. "Search with Learning from Prices: Does Increased Inflationary Uncertainty Lead to Higher Markups?," Review of Economic Studies, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 60(1), pages 69-94, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  13. Reilly, Barry & Witt, Robert, 1998. "Petrol price asymmetries revisited," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 297-308, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Matt Lewis, 2004. "Asymmetric Price Adjustment and Consumer Search: An Examination of the Retail Gasoline Market," Industrial Organization 0407010, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Muehlegger, Erich, 2006. "Gasoline Price Spikes and Regional Gasoline Content Regulation: A Structural Approach," Working Paper Series rwp06-015, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. [Downloadable!]
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