Market vs. Rationing: The Case of Soviet Housing
利用苏联移民调查数据，证明苏联城市住房的行政配给制度被市场力量（通常通过第二经济）部分替代，对研究非价格配给失效机制有参考价值。
Economists devote considerable effort to the analysis of various forms of nonprice rationing. These analyses generally disregard forces that act to foil rationing schemes. Even with a commodity that seems to be easy to control, however, in a system with extensive rationing experience, nonprice rationing schemes can be circumvented. This thesis is examined for the case of housing distribution in the U.S.S.R. utilizing the data from a survey of recent Soviet emigres. It is shown that administrative rationing of Soviet urban housing is partially replaced by market forces acting usually through the second economy. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.