Market determinants of retail fuel price dispersion in Poland

The dissertation presents the outcome of empirical study focused on investigating retail fuel price dispersion in Poland based on an author model for price dispersion. The model is grounded in three key dimensions driving prices: competition dimension (focused on market structure and intensity of competition), demand dimension (focused on buyers response to price change and search cost) and resource dimension (focused on differentiating advantage and customer perceived value). Following review of major portion of theoretical and empirical literature results of econometric analysis are presented which support the proposed model. The study addressed the topic of price dispersion in a holistic manner while building a baseline for future potential research.