The result of this relative price shift is headline inflation.

But such a relative price system is feasible only in a market economy.

Yet, because an exchange rate is a relative price, all currencies cannot weaken simultaneously.

The only effect of the dollar s decline is to change the price in dollars relative to the price in euros and other currencies.

A temporary leave of absence from the eurozone would allow Greece to achieve a price level decline relative to other eurozone countries, and would make it easier to adjust the relative price level if Greek wages cannot be limited.

At that price, the dollar was undervalued by roughly 10 relative to its purchasing power parity (PPP).

And the dollar price of oil would have gone up 56 . The only effect of the dollar s decline is to change the price in dollars relative to the price in euros and other currencies.

Price deflation is not conducive to bringing about the sort of relative price changes that could accelerate reallocation of resources within the countries under stress and increase overall productivity.

Relative prices are much easier to change when there is modest inflation than when nominal price reductions are required.

Price competitiveness is a relative concept, not an absolute value, yet the policy discussion still ignores this basic fact.

Indeed, these countries are already experiencing large relative price increases for food and oil, a food emergency for the poor, and higher rates of inflation induced by commodity price shifts.

Moreover, both have a reputation for believing that the Fed should not place excessive weight on price stability relative to unemployment.

The French experience exacted a high long term price French society was poorer relative to Britain in the century after the Revolution.

But if the price of oil falls, citizens suffer a loss of income and wealth (relative to having invested the money elsewhere).

My Harvard colleague Kenneth Froot and I once studied the relative price movements of a number of goods over a 700 year period.

The price of feedstock used in the production of biodiesel relative to petroleum prices is a key determinant in the feasibility of biodiesel.

To pursue its comparative advantage and prosper in a globalized world, a country needs a price system that reflects the relative abundance of its factor endowments.

The dollar price of gold does not increase with the US price level. And the value of gold does not increase in dollars to offset the fall in the value of the dollar relative to the euro or the yen.

That is only true to the extent that we think about the price of oil in dollars, since the dollar has fallen relative to other major currencies.

Yet these numbers are valuable because they are of exceptional quality and they correct systematically for relative price differences across countries, which sometimes leads to surprising results.

Only Ireland continued on a path of rapid deflation as it has since the country s real estate bubble burst in 2006 with a relative price decrease of 2.2 .

To determine relative ranking, some systems require real time disclosure of the lowest price to be bid while in other systems, only ranking but not prices are disclosed.

A better approach is to think of the longer term story as being one of changes in relative prices, which are not well handled by a consumer price index.

As skilled labor becomes increasingly expensive relative to unskilled labor, firms and businesses have a greater incentive to find ways to cheat by using substitutes for high price inputs.

Asymmetry of this magnitude requires a significant adjustment of relative prices. The relative price of the goods produced in the advanced countries (their real exchange rate) needs to depreciate vis à vis the emerging countries in order to compensate for the expected shortfall in internal demand.

This was reflected in a 40 gain in the country s terms of trade (the price of exports relative to imports), which meant that the same export volumes translated into more dollars.

The three phenomena that boost nominal GDP increases in real output, a rise in the relative price of exports, and real exchange rate appreciation do not operate independently of one another.

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Adjusted for depreciation of the United States dollar and price inflation, the 18.4 per cent annual increase of ODA reported for 2003 relative to 2002 falls to about a quarter of that figure.

Only Ireland continued on a path of rapid deflation as it has since the country s real estate bubble burst in 2006 with a relative price decrease of 2.2 . On the whole, Ireland has become cheaper relative to its eurozone competitors by a total of 15 over the course of the past five years.

Participants emphasized that changes would be needed in multiple areas, including improving the system of taxation and social insurance, further developing housing and the service economy, and eliminating a range of relative price distortions.

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an orphaned relative

The relative price of the goods produced in the advanced countries (their real exchange rate) needs to depreciate vis à vis the emerging countries in order to compensate for the expected shortfall in internal demand.

And, as India s external position deteriorated, the rupee became significantly overvalued between early 2009 and late 2012, trading in a narrow range while domestic inflation galloped ahead in a global environment of relative price stability.

The euro shares important features with versions of the old gold standard, under which countries fixed their exchange rates relative to each other by setting the price at which domestic currency could be redeemed in gold.

But gentleness is relative.

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of an orphaned relative

to an orphaned relative

of an orphaned relative

There is, however, a major threat to a smooth transition to new sources of global growth the possibility of overshooting in the inevitable asset price adjustment accompanying the shift in relative growth prospects and perceptions of risks.

As the bond market begins, finally, to price in greater relative risk in euro zone sovereigns, the intellectual underpinnings of the idea of a global division between emerging market and developed market bonds will be fundamentally tested.

The relative high price of land in the central core of cities lead to the first multi story buildings, which were limited to about 10 stories until the use of iron and steel allowed for higher structures.