international food prices and proposed solutions to the crisis. These studies have covered global as well as local food price … high food prices. Commodity price analysis should, however, differentiate between three types of price changes: trends … technological changes. The supply, demand, and market explanations for high and volatile global prices have been differentiated as …

productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

food demand in relation to food prices over time using data from the British National Food Survey (NFS) covering the period … energy from carbohydrate have been explored deriving nutrients elasticities with respect to variation of food prices. …

in house prices and a glut of homes for sale on the market. While the idea that this overhang of dwellings for sale … should place downward pressure on house prices is intuitive, little empirical work has been done in this area. This paper … explicitly models the relationship between changes in house prices and various measures of housing supply. The results show that …

This paper reviews the existing empirical evidence on the short-term impact on prices of fiscal variables and assesses … Commission and the OECD models. Overall, a broad consensus appears on the impact on prices of changes in individual government … limited impact on prices in the first year while, in contrast, changes in indirect taxes and employers' social security …

This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized … wages is attributable mainly to unemployment shocks (about 80 percent), whereas variation in the forecast errors of prices …). Productivity shocks explain somewhat less than 10 percent of the variation in forecast errors of wages and prices. …