market economic agents

in this context, "agente" means factor, as I read the sentence

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From the Business Dictionary:

market factor

Definition
Any external agent that affects the demand for or the price of a good or service.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/market-factor.h...
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Also see zillions of examples in Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=market factors&aq=1&oq=...

agente de mercado => market agent

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Microeconomic Theory - Google Books Result
by Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael Dennis Whinston ... - 1995 - Business & Economics - 981 pages
Only the behavior of the market agent needs comment. Given the total excess demand vector, the market agent chooses prices so as to maximize the value of ...
www.books.google.com.br/books?isbn=0195073401...

Market Agent, Exam #4040
THE SALARY: The current minimum salary for Market Agent is $29267 per annum. ... position of Market Agent. Where appropriate, a reasonable accommodation ...
www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/downloads/pdf/noes/marketagent.pdf

A Negotiation Protocol and Market Agent Model for Complex ...
A Negotiation Protocol and Market Agent Model for Complex Transactions in ... negotiation: the negotiation protocol and an active market agent model. ...
www.cs.umn.edu/.../TR_97-037__A_Negotiation_Protocol_and_Ma...

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agentes econômicos dos mercados de transporte =>

economic agents of the transportation markets..transportation market economic agents

Results 1 - 30 of about 65,100 for "economic agent".

Definition of Economic Agent
Economic Agent. Economists like to refer to the people they study as economic agents. Economic agents come in two basic varieties, producers and consumers, ...
www.econmodel.com/classic/terms/agent.htm -

Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory
an economic agent to be a group of individuals, the reasonable as- ... An economic agent is described in our models as a unit that re- ...
www.arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/Rubinstein2005.pdf -

The Strange History of the Economic Agent
the economic agent reveals some important aspects of our conception of ourselves ... The story of the economic agent thus may shed light on issues well ...
www.cepa.newschool.edu/~foleyd/ecagent.pdf

agentes econômicos dos mercados de transporte =>

economic agents of the transportation markets..transportation market economic agents

Results 1 - 30 of about 65,100 for "economic agent".

Definition of Economic Agent
Economic Agent. Economists like to refer to the people they study as economic agents. Economic agents come in two basic varieties, producers and consumers, ...
www.econmodel.com/classic/terms/agent.htm -

Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory
an economic agent to be a group of individuals, the reasonable as- ... An economic agent is described in our models as a unit that re- ...
www.arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/Rubinstein2005.pdf -

The Strange History of the Economic Agent
the economic agent reveals some important aspects of our conception of ourselves ... The story of the economic agent thus may shed light on issues well ...
www.cepa.newschool.edu/~foleyd/ecagent.pdf

I can't translate the phrase the way you've posted it...you need the whole phrase.

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Note added at 19 hrs (2008-11-11 14:34:56 GMT)
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In other words, if I translated "agente de mercado," no matter how I translated it, it wouldn't fit in the phrase because of the other words surrounding it...