You find these same types of patterns in price charts of markets, according to the theory devised by R.
More recently the court upheld a federal law prohibiting the private cultivation of marijuana under the theory that even private cultivation has an impact on the price of a commodity that is subject to intensive federal regulation.
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Economic theory says increasing supplies of a currency leads to price inflation.
In theory, even in the market the price of staples is limited.
According to economic theory, this should reduce the relative price of labour and raise the global return to capital which is exactly what has happened.
In a forthcoming article, Jeremy Bulow of Stanford Business School and Paul Klemperer of Oxford University use theory to show that such price caps mean those who value a good most do not necessarily get it.
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Economic theory does suggest rising inflationary price pressures are the result of monetary policies that are too easy.
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My theory says no: If you have a large number of price changes, a small number of days are important.
Economic theory suggests that the future price is simply traders' best guess of the shape of things to come.
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The combination of cheap jets with greater fuel efficiency and a critical mass of these critters in the sky can, in theory, lower the price per seat considerably.
So the high probability that credit-rating agencies will downgrade UK banks' debt, as and when the government accepts the recommendations of the Banking Commission, should in theory have no impact on the price banks pay to borrow.
But share price is supposed to be a function of future earnings, in theory, at least.
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In theory, however, the undoubted value of these natural treasures should be reflected in their price, which should rise steeply as they become more scarce.
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In theory, a discretionary central bank could limit the quantity of money and achieve long-run price stability by controlling the growth of nominal final demand.
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Mere talk of opening up America's coastal waters, the theory runs, has convinced traders of a big future boost to oil supplies and so pushed the price down.
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Ben Jacobsen, a finance professor at Massey University in New Zealand, has another theory: it takes investors (like economists) a while to work out the impact of oil-price movements on the economy generally.
Not counted, for instance, are membership dues, such as what one might pay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the theory that the member is getting something back for the payment, like reduced admission price.
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In theory this policy of buying and cancelling some of the debt would reduce Greece's indebtedness, because the market price of its bonds is a fraction of the amount originally borrowed: if the EFSF paid 50m euros for Greek bonds with a face value of 100m euros, and agreed that Greece should have an obligation to replay only the 50m euros, that would reduce Greece's indebtedness by 50m euros.
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