Oil and pump prices: is there any asymmetry in the Greek oil downstream sector?

Zacharias Bragoudakis (), Stavros Degiannakis and George Filis

No 268, Working Papers from Bank of Greece

Abstract: The aim of this study is to assess whether fuel prices in Greece respond asymmetrically to changes in the global oil prices. To do so, we depart from the current practice in the literature that focuses on fuel prices. Rather, we consider the mark-up of both the refineries and retailers. Even more, unlike the bulk of the existing literature, we take into consideration the whole supply chain, i.e. both the refineries and the retail fuel sector. Hence, we first assess whether the refineries’ mark-up responds asymmetrically to the global oil prices and subsequently whether the retailers’ mark-up shows an asymmetric behaviour relatively to changes in the refineries’ fuel prices. Our findings show that the Greek fuel retailers do not change their mark-up behaviour based on changes of the refined fuel price. By contrast, the asymmetric behaviour is evident in the refineries mark-up relatively to changes in the global oil prices, which is then passed through to the retailers and consumers. Finally, we convincingly show that weekly and monthly data mask any such asymmetric relationship. Thus, we maintain that unless the appropriate data frequency, fuel price transformations and the whole supply chain are considered, misleading findings could be revealed.

Keywords: Oil price shocks; fuel prices; asymmetric responses; rockets and feathers; pass-through (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 D40 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2019-09
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