Working Paper 13-12 - Consumptieprijzen in België en de buurlanden - Aandachtspunten voor het beleid

Working Paper 13-12 - Consumer prices in Belgium and its neighbouring countries: Policy issues

Jan van der Linden

Working Papers from Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium

Abstract: Food prices in Belgium are higher and rise faster than in its neighbouring countries. This can be verified from Eurostat databases, and has been noticed as part of the European Semesters. During the past few years, the phenomenon of price differntials has been studied at the Belgian and the international level. From these studies can be deduced that the causes are manifold, but that there are also factors that work out favourably in Belgium. Four factors that seem to be outstanding in Belgium: the small economic-geographic scale in combination with the bilingualism, wholesale prices, labour cost and the strategy of certain store chains.

Keywords: Market behaviour; Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 L11 L41 L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10-16
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