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 types of transmission of price changes, studying the reasons for any … uneven or asymmetric price transmission between sugar producers and final consumers, and taking into account the intermediate …

This paper identifies the empirical stylized features of price setting behaviour in Portugal using the micro …-datasets underlying the consumer and the producer price indexes. The main conclusions are the following: 1 in every 4 prices change each … month; there is a considerable degree of heterogeneity in price setting practices; consumer prices of goods change more …

Based upon a large fraction of the price records used for computing the French CPI, we document consumer price rigidity … in France. We first provide a methodological discussion of issues involved in estimating average price duration with … months. A strong heterogeneity across sectors both in the average duration of prices and in the pattern of price setting is …

price-setting behavior of French manufacturing companies. Prices are found to adjust infrequently; the median firm modifies … its price only once a year. Price reviews are more frequent than price changes; the median firm reviews its price … of price reviews depends on the probability that changes in the firms’ environment occur. Coordination failure and …