Identification in models of gasoline pricing

Lance Bachmeier

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 120, issue 1, 71-73

Abstract: This paper presents evidence that the price of oil does not respond contemporaneously to shocks to the US gasoline market. We find no support for the hypothesis of feedback from the US gasoline market to the price of oil, justifying the identification of impulse response functions by applying a Cholesky decomposition (see, e.g., Kilian (2010)). Our results have implications for tests of asymmetric gasoline price responses and forecasting models of the price of crude oil.

Keywords: Gasoline; Crude oil; Error correction; Rockets and feathers; Identification; Heteroskedasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 Q47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.029

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