This paper surveys the empirical literature on gasoline retailing, which has been growing
rapidly over the last three decades, possibly in response to antitrust and regulatory concerns …

We provide a unified treatment of alternative models of information acquisition/transmission
that have been advanced to rationalize price dispersion in online and offl ine markets for …

This article proposes a new explanation for why retail prices respond more quickly to cost
increases than cost decreases. I develop a search model that assumes consumers' …

We examine the relationship between concentration and price dispersion using variation
induced by a merger in the Canadian mortgage market. Since interest rates are determined …

I measure price dispersion among differentiated retail gasoline sellers and study the
relationship between dispersion and the local competitive environment. Significant price …

Using monthly data from the 48 contiguous states (except Nevada) for the 1988–2002
period, it is shown that retail gasoline prices respond faster to wholesale price increases …

This article studies the role of imperfect information in explaining price dispersion. We use a
new panel data set on the US retail gasoline industry and propose a new test of temporal …

We measure how pass-through varies with competition in isolated oligopolistic markets with
captive consumers. Using daily pricing data from gas stations on small Greek islands, we …

In this paper we examine the relationship between number of local competitors and both the
average and the dispersion of retail prices in urban hotels using a dataset from the …

We use a data set consisting of a three year panel of prices from a sample of gasoline
stations located in suburban Washington DC and a corresponding census of the region's …