Price Reform and Durable Goods in the Transition to a Market Economy
June 1, 1993
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Summary
The paper examines the short- and long-term effects of price liberalization in a reforming socialist economy. The analysis is based on an optimizing framework that highlights hoarding behavior and the existence of parallel goods markets. The behavior of official and parallel market prices, stock of durables, and the velocity of money in the transition period between reform announcement and reform implementation is characterized, in the presence and absence of uncertainty about the transition date.
Subject: Asset prices, Financial institutions, Financial services, Inflation, Price controls, Prices, Real interest rates, Stocks
Keywords: Asset prices, durable goods, Eastern Europe, excess demand, free market, Inflation, liberalization program, market price, nominal interest rate, Price controls, price liberalization, Real interest rates, socialist economy, stock of durables, Stocks, WP
Pages:
36
Volume:
1993
DOI:
Issue:
047
Series:
Working Paper No. 1993/047
Stock No:
WPIEA0471993
ISBN:
9781451972917
ISSN:
1018-5941
