[OPE-L:3781] RE: predicting market prices

patrick l maso (patrick.l.mason.20@nd.edu)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 15:31:02 -0800 (PST)

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Andrew,

Please explain your comment below:

>Anyone
>who takes the .93 --- now up to .98 and .99 --- correlations too seriously
>should remember that the vertically integrated labor coefficients are DERIVED
>from the very market prices they are supposed to predict. It is much more
>correct to say that the market prices are predictors of the vertically
>integrated labor coefficients.

peace, patrick l mason