THE LAW OF ONE PRICE: SURVEY OF A FAILURE
Abstract
This paper aims to survey the literature about the Law of One Price in order to document its failure in terms of actual application. After a brief theoretical overview, which starts from classical economists’ thought, the reported literature has been classified on the basis of three main streams: pricing-to-market (also considering investigations about differences between domestic and export prices), national borders, and tradability of goods. Reviewed works have been selected in order to provide a dedicated survey for ‘the Law’, which is absent in previous works about this topic. Therefore, the investigation has been kept intentionally separate from PPP- related debate.
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BIONDO, Alessio Emanuele.
THE LAW OF ONE PRICE: SURVEY OF A FAILURE.
Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 2, p. 167 - 181, dec. 2010.
ISSN 2068-7710.
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