Title
Slack, shortage, and discouraged consumers in eastern europe: Estimates based on smoothing by aggregation
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-1988
Abstract
As a consequence of aggregation over markets, the observed quantity may be less than the quantity demanded and less than the quantity supplied. To deal with such situations, a new technique is proposed for estimating demand and supply curves and the extent of shortage and slack. The technique is applied to the consumption goods markets of Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia. It is found that shortage, even corrected for a discouraged consumer effect, is seldom as great as slack. © 1988 The Society for Economic Analysis Limited.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Review of Economic Studies
Volume
55
Issue
3
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Burkett, John P.. "Slack, shortage, and discouraged consumers in eastern europe: Estimates based on smoothing by aggregation." Review of Economic Studies 55, 3 (1988): 493-506. doi: 10.2307/2297398.