Central Planners as Market Stabilizers: Evidence from Poland and the Soviet Union
通过计量模型检验波兰和苏联计划者能否识别并消除谷物和肉类市场的供需失衡，发现计划者的决策虽有助于减少失衡，但样本期内市场仍长期存在超额需求或供给。
The ability of planners in Poland and the U.S.S.R. to recognize and act to eliminate market disequilibrium in the markets for grain and meat is tested by means of an econometric model of grain and meat production, consumption, and trade. Planners' perceptions of excess demand for grain, meat, and foreign exchange are shown to influence production and trade decisions in a way that tends to reduce excess demand or supply. Nevertheless, the markets for grain, meat, and foreign exchange are shown to be characterized by excess demand or supply for much of the sample period. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.