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Asymmetric fuel price responses under heterogeneity
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2016-02)We explore the effect of cross-sectional aggregation of data on estimation and test of asymmetric retail fuel price responses to wholesale price shocks. The analysis is performed on data collected daily from individual ... -
Building a panel data set on fuel stations located in the Spanish regional areas of Madrid and Barcelona
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2016)The data described in this article were collected daily over the period June 10, 2010, to November 25, 2012, from the website of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. The database includes information about ... -
Do classes of gas stations contribute differently to fuel prices? Evidence to foster effective competition in Spain
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2020-04)Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest in the EU. The literature provides evidence ... -
Does foreign ownership promote environmental protection? Evidence from firm-level data
Balaguer, Jacint; Cuadros, Ana; García-Quevedo, Jose Springer (2022)This paper examines the role played by foreign ownership as a determinant of the environmental behaviour of Spanish manufacturing firms. Unlike previous studies, our analysis distinguishes between current expenditure on ... -
Does multimarket contact affect prices in the retail fuel industry? First empirical evidence
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2020-12-09)Although multimarket competition is a fairly common characteristic in the retail fuel industry, its effect on the corresponding prices remains unexplored. By using a large dataset of service stations in Spain, a first set ... -
Estimating the environmental Kuznets curve for Spain by considering fuel oil prices (1874–2011)
Balaguer, Jacint; Cantavella, Manuel Elsevier (2016)We perform a structural analysis on an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for Spain by exploiting long time series (1874–2011) and by using real oil prices as an indicator of variations in fuel energy consumption. This ... -
Foreign trade and economic growth in Spain (1900–2012): the role of energy imports
Balaguer, Jacint; Florica, Tatiana; Ripollés, Jordi Springer International Publishing (2015)We take a long-term perspective (1900–2012) to examine the causal relationship between foreign trade and economic growth for Spain. Results from both Johansen’s (J Econ Dyn Control 12:231–254, 1988) and Toda and Yamamoto’s ... -
The dynamics pattern of price dispersion in retail fuel markets
Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi Elsevier (2018-08)This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of price dispersion in retail fuel markets as a response to the corresponding wholesale price changes. For this purpose we take advantage ... -
The role of education in the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Evidence from Australian data
Balaguer, Jacint; Cantavella, Manuel Elsevier (2018-02)This paper is based on the underlying idea that the use of energy resources in a society significantly depends on their level of education. Then, it is hypothesized that education might directly affect environmental quality ...