The pattern of prices of different real goods and services. This is distinguished from actual money prices. Two sets of actual prices represent the same set of relative prices if it is possible to change one set to the other by multiplying by any constant λ. It has been argued that in any economy the level of absolute prices is mainly set by monetary factors, while the structure of relative prices is set by real factors. This cannot be true in the short run, as different prices are affected to differing extents by contract or government controls, so that during inflation or deflation of the general price level actual prices do not correspond exactly to an equilibrium price structure. The relative prices of different financial assets are clearly not independent of monetary factors.

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• TRIPS
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• trust
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• t test
• TUC
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• turnover
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• two-gap model
• two-part tariff
• two-stage least squares
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• type I and II errors
• unbiased estimator
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• uncertainty
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• under-developed country
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