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

February 1, 1993

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Peter Isard, and Joshua Aizenman. Resource Allocation During the Transition to a Market Economy: Policy Implications of Supply Bottlenecks and Adjustment Costs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1993) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

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.

Subject: Credit, Economic sectors, Employment, Industrial sector, Labor, Money, Public sector

Keywords: Credit, Eastern Europe, Employment, Enterprise reform, Industrial sector, Production bottleneck, Production environment, Production sector, Production stoppage, Public sector, Representative firm, Resource allocation, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

41
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 1993/006
Stock No:

WPIEA0061993
ISBN:

9781451842241
ISSN:

1018-5941

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