This study aims to understand the gap between agricultural producer prices in the EU and the prices paid by the consumer between 2003 and 2005, with a view to explaining the decisive factors in this area for key agricultural sectors and, on the basis of this analysis, to formulate economic and...

By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this study evaluates the quantitative importance of idiosyncratic pricing shocks in short-run aggregate price change dynamics. Robustly to alternative definitions of the relative...

Although the Visegrád Four countries often defended the same or similar positions in the European Convention, their views differed on many important issues. This situation is likely to be repeated at the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference. This basically confirms the tendency that can be...