Replication Package for: Detecting Edgeworth Cycles (Version 2)

<p>This replication package contains the <strong>data </strong>and the <strong>code </strong>to generate the main results reported in <strong>"Detecting Edgeworth Cycles"</strong>&nbsp;by <strong>Timothy Holt, Mitsuru Igami, and Simon Scheidegger</strong>, to be published in the February 2024 issue of <em>The Journal of Law and Economics</em>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Additionally, this package also allows the users to<strong> apply these pre-trained models to new datasets</strong> of their choice. As an example of such a new dataset, we include the <strong>entire German dataset available at the time of our research (2014:Q4&ndash;2020:Q4)</strong>, including both manually labeled and unlabeled subsamples.</p> <p>Finally, this package includes <strong>tools to facilitate the acquisition and pre-processing of the most recent data from Germany</strong>, which is updated every day on the <em>Tankerkoenig</em> website (at the time of our preparation of this package).</p> <p><strong>[3/29/2024 update]</strong> The URL for the German antitrust authority's fuel-data website has changed to <a href="https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Tasks/markettransparencyunit_fuels/markettransparencyunit_fuels.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Tasks/markettransparencyunit_fuels/markettransparencyunit_fuels.html</a>.</p>