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 …

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 …

speed at which price shocks are transmitted across membersu0092 goods markets. This paper investigates part of this … mechanism and finds that monetary union may indeed result in faster cross-border transmission of price movements via the import … and export price channel which, in turn, would tend to homogenise price movements across the member countries of a …

This paper examines the degree of price rigidity in Belgian consumer prices, using a large database. As to the observed …. Each month, nearly 17 p.c. of the consumer prices change on average and the median duration of a price spell is close to 13 … timedependency exists as well. The majority of price changes are price increases, but price decreases are not uncommon, except for …

This study examines price setting behaviour of Italian firms on the basis of the results of a survey conducted by Banca … services where price discrimination across customers matters. Rival prices mostly affect pricesetting strategies in industrial …-dependent ones. Concerning the frequency of price adjustments, a considerable degree of stickiness emerges both at the stage in which …

This paper identifies the basic features of the price setting mechanism in the Spanish economy, using a large dataset … that contains over 1.1 million price records and covers around 70% of the expenditure on the CPI basket. In particular, the … paper identifies differences in the frequency and size of price adjustments across types of products and explores how these …

through of changes in the effective exchange rate of the euro to the price of extra-euro area imports of manufactures is …