On the Dynamics of Gasoline Market Integration in the United States: Evidence from a Pair Wise Approach

Serie

• Discussion Paper Series

Resumen

• This paper employs a pair-wise approach to examine regional integration in the US gasoline market. Using gasoline price data at the state level over a period of more than two decades, we find strong support for the view that the law of one price holds in regional markets, as more than 80% of bivariate price differentials turn out to be stationary. Furthermore, we uncover evidence that the speed at which prices converge to the long-run equilibrium depends upon the distance between states. Asymmetries are also present in this relationship. Our findings suggest that the more similar are states with respect to taxation, gas stations and refining capacity, the faster is the speed of adjustment towards the long-run equilibrium.

autores

• Holmes, Mark
• Otero, Jesús
• Panagiotidis, Theodore

fecha de publicación

• 2012-10

Área temática

• C33 - Modelos de ecuaciones múltiples/simultáneas; Variables múltiples: Modelos con datos de panel; Modelos espacio-temporales
• Q47 - Predicción de energía
• R11 - Actividad económica regional: crecimiento, desarrollo, ambiente y cambios

Enfoque geográfico

• North America  Continent
• United States of America  Country

Líneas de investigación

• Gasoline
• Market Integration
• Pair-Wise Approach
• Panel Data
• Speed of Adjustment

Issue

• 2012_10