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Biofuel Dynamics in Brazil: Ethanol–Gasoline Price Threshold Analysis for Consumer Preference
EnergiesThe global transition towards environmentally friendly energy sources plays a major role in addressing both energy security and climate change. Brazil is at the forefront of this transition due to its rich natural resources and increasing investments in ...
Letícia Rezende Mosquéra +9 more
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Sequential Search with Incompletely Informed Consumers: Theory and Evidence from Retail Gasoline Markets [PDF]
A large variety of markets, such as retail markets for gasoline or mortgage markets, are characterized by a small number of firms offering a fairly homogenous product at virtually the same cost, while consumers, being uninformed about this cost ...
Maarten Janssen +2 more
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Oil Futures Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By decomposing West Texas Intermediate futures price changes into structural supply and demand shocks, this paper shows that dissecting the oil price significantly improves inflation forecasts. Empirically, demand‐driven shocks predict a negative real bond risk premium but a positive inflation risk premium; these opposing effects result in an ...
Haibo Jiang
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Gasoline and crude oil prices: why the asymmetry? [PDF]
Many consumers complain that gasoline and crude oil prices have an asymmetric relationship in which gasoline prices raise more quickly when crude oil prices are rising than they fall when crude oil prices are falling.
Mine K. Yücel, Stephen P. A. Brown
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A Consistent Heteroskedasticity‐Robust LM‐Type Specification Test for Semiparametric Models
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a heteroskedasticity‐robust Lagrange Multiplier‐type specification test for semiparametric regression models. The test is able to detect a wide class of deviations from the null hypothesis. The test statistic is based on the estimates from the restricted semiparametric model, can be computed in a regression‐based way, and
Ivan Korolev
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MachinesThis study investigates the impact of hydrogen supplementation on the performance, efficiency, and emissions of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine, with a specific focus on knock phenomena.
Saugirdas Pukalskas +6 more
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Gasoline prices jump up on Mondays: An outcome of aggressive competition? [PDF]
This paper examines Norwegian gasoline pump prices using daily station-specific observations from March 2003 to March 2006. Whereas studies that have analyzed similar price cycles in other countries find support for the Edgeworth cycle theory (Maskin and
Foros, Øystein, Steen, Frode
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Journal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Although consumers who engage in the same sustainable behaviors objectively have the same environmental impact, this research finds that people's perceptions of that impact are subjective and systematically shaped by political ideology. Seven studies demonstrate that conservatives tend to perceive their sustainable actions to have less of a ...
Aylin Cakanlar +2 more
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Research Progress and Commercial Applications of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Technology
Shiyou huagong gaodeng xuexiao xuebaoAs the core of heavy oil upgrading, fluid catalytic cracking(FCC) units have long been the main pillar of economic benefits for petrochemical enterprises in China.This paper reviews the development history of domestic FCC technology and summarizes the ...
Ruiqi QIAO +3 more
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