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shadow prices

shadow prices is the plural of shadow price.

Meaning of shadow price

Noun

shadow price (plural shadow prices)

  1. A price for a resource, good, or service which is not based on actual market exchanges, but is mathematically derived from indirect data obtained from related markets.
    • Friedman (1969) argued that a positive shadow price of money balances would violate the Pareto-efficiency condition that the shadow price of anything should equal its marginal cost.1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page 1

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What is shadow prices the plural of?
Shadow prices is the plural of shadow price.

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