Rohölpreise und Steuern als Bestimmungsgründe für Benzin und Dieselpreise: Eine empirische Untersuchung für den österreichischen Tankstellenmarkt

Abstract: This paper analyses the reaction of Austrian gasoline and diesel retail prices on changes of the corresponding taxes and international crude oil prices. Estimating vector error correction models over the period January 1980 to May 2008, wefind that diesel prices and gasoline prices are not separable in the long run. Crude oil price or tax changes are passed on completely to consumer gasoline prices and even disproportionately strong to diesel prices. Asymmetric price adjustments of fuel prices are small and statistically not significant.;