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Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
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ISBN | : 9781984167583 |
Gasoline prices, oil company profits, and the American consumer : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 22, 2007.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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Release | : 2008* |
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Author | : Mr. Kangni R Kpodar |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2021-11-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1616356154 |
This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest income quintiles with the view to assess the distributional impact of the pass-through. To undertake this analysis, the paper provides an update to the Global Monthly Retail Fuel Price Database, expanding the product coverage to premium and regular fuels, the time dimension to December 2020, and the sample to 190 countries. Three key findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad-based in developing economies than in advanced economies. Second, we show that past studies using crude oil prices instead of retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing power of all households declines as fuel prices increase, the distributional impact is progressive. But the progressivity phases out within 6 months after the shock in advanced economies, whereas it persists beyond a year in developing countries.
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Oil industries |
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In this policy paper, we present several empirical tests using publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Securities and Exchange Commission to examine the relationship of oil company profit margins to retail gas prices. After review, we find that the accounting profitability of the major, integrated oil companies is actually lower on average during periods of extremely high gas and oil prices (and, in fact, are even lower than in times of extremely low gas and oil prices). Large oil companies are most profitable during periods of moderate gasoline prices. yet, small vertically integrated oil companies and firms primarily in the business of refining purchased crude oil exhibit a consistently inverse relationship between profit margins and retail gas prices -- as gas prices increase, these firms become less profitable. We find no evidence that the accounting profitability of oil companies (measured using gross profits) increases during episodes of very high retail gasoline prices. Our findings are consistent with the notion that high gas prices are primarily a cost-driven phenomenon, rather than just a consequence of demand shocks or collusion. While we do not attribute any altruistic motivation to the oil companies, the evidence intimates that the burden of gas prices is partially shouldered by the industry, thereby reducing the burden on the consumer.
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1422332659 |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Gasoline |
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Author | : United States |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Consumers |
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