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Agree or disagree with the following statement, explain your reasoning: An important property of the Law of One Price is that it holds even in markets where arbitrage is not possible.
The given statement is CORRECT as the law of One price will be advocating that the prices of similar goods and similar commodities which have a similar stream of cash flows and similar advantages associated with them should be similar in different regions of the world and there should be no arbitraging possible but in the real world, there are arbitraging possible because of their various factors like exchange rate and macroeconomic factors which cannot be proactively discounted into the prices of the products and it will be holding in those markets where arbitrage is not possible because those market there will be no conditions related to discrepancy between various price of similar commodity.
Hence, law of One price will be holding in the market where arbitraging is not possible because arbitraging is not possible, then it is almost certain that the prices of various products will be in accordance with the exchange rate and other factors so law of One price will hold.