Panel data to investigate pricing behavior in the Spanish retail fuel market

摘要

The data described in this article were collected daily over the period 18 August 2014 to 15 June 2015 from the website of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism . The database includes information on almost all gas stations located in Spain that sell to the public. For each gas station we have information of daily diesel prices (both posted price and net of taxes), brands and locations (latitude and longitude) and the Brent price. We also share a Stata program file to identify the nearest competitors of each gas station and their brand. The program also computes the distance to the nearest refinery and its brand. The data base can be used for analyzing firms pricing behavior focusing, for example, on asymmetric pricing, cartels or vertical integration, among other topics. This data base is used in the paper [2] “Effects of antitrust prosecution on retail fuel prices” that analyze the impact on prices of an antitrust sanction imposed to several brands on February 2015.