The Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) commissioned the present study to assess the influence of the 2006 reform of the EU sugar regime on price transmission in the sugar sector. The investigations to be carried out had to focus on the different...

Based on a literature review, this paper investigates the reasons why broad money demand has usually been found to be more stable in the euro area than in other large economies. The paper concludes that there are three main explanations for this fact. First, in some countries outside the euro...