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Why are UK Pump Prices So High?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Aurélie Delannoy
Aurélie Delannoy*
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NIESR
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The UK Economy
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 220 , April 2012 , pp. F67 - F74
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Copyright © 2012 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

The author would like to thank Phil Davis, Dawn Holland, Simon Kirby and Iana Liadze for their comments.

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