This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies use monthly producer price data. The following...

Das erklärte Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht in der Entwicklung von Empfehlungen zum effektiven Einsatz interner Verrechnungspreise aus organisationstheoreti-scher Sicht, die einer empirischen Überprüfung zugänglich sind. Anders als oftmals üblich beschränkt sich die Untersuchung nicht auf die...

In many sectors of the health care system, prices at which providers are reimbursed by payers are not determined by the market mechanism, but rather by a defined administrative process. Depending on the sector, prices are set politically and are negotiated between different actors or are...