Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/273877 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 39-2022
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
Several European countries have implemented temporarily fuel tax reductions in 2022 to relieve the financial burden on their citizens. This paper provides estimates of the pass-through rates as well as the effect on retail margins for France, Germany and Italy. Using a unique data set containing daily consumer prices for gasoline and diesel in five European countries, we employ a staggered Difference-in-Differences design. Our results show a very heterogeneous pass-through of the fuel tax reductions depending on the country and on the type of fuel. These findings also have important implications for the effective design of unconventional fiscal policy as well as for competition policy in the fuel market.
Subjects: 
pass-through
fuel taxes
staggered DiD
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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