Policy Reform, Shadow Prices, and Market Prices.

How should possible policy reforms and projects be assessed when prices give misleading signals? Revenues and costs at market prices then give distorted measures of social gains and losses and our appraisal should use social opportunity costs, or correctly defined, shadow prices. We show how shadow...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1988.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1988/091
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF
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