Resource Allocation During the Transition to a Market Economy : Policy Implications of Supply Bottlenecks and Adjustment Costs /

The paper discusses the case against a laissez faire approach to resource allocation and develops a model of supply bottlenecks. It argues that: (1) once budget constraints are hardened and credit markets begin to function appropriately, externalities associated with production bottlenecks and adjus...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Isard, Peter
مؤلفون آخرون: Aizenman, Joshua
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1993/006
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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520 3 |a The paper discusses the case against a laissez faire approach to resource allocation and develops a model of supply bottlenecks. It argues that: (1) once budget constraints are hardened and credit markets begin to function appropriately, externalities associated with production bottlenecks and adjustment costs--other considerations aside--provide a case for subsidizing the costs of critical inputs for the state sector but not the new private sector; (2) the optimal subsidy declines as the private sector grows; and (3) the subsidy should be 'financed' by taxing wage income in the state sector, which will strengthen incentives for workers to move. 
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