The transition from dual-track pricing to a market system: Winners and losers

John Bennett (), Huw Dixon and Helen X.Y. Hu

Economic Systems, 2013, vol. 37, issue 1, 30-44

Abstract: We formulate a microeconomic model of the dual-track price system for households and use it to analyze ‘transitional policy’ reforms, i.e., a rise in the plan-track price and a reduction in the plan-track quantity. Each of these reforms has a negative effect on the market price, but a positive effect on the weighted average price (CPI). Under fairly mild assumptions, if households are heterogeneous and resale of goods can occur, transitional policy reform creates losers (state employees) as well as winners (non-state employees). Thus, although the transition from central planning to DTP potentially occurs with no losers, further reform is painful for some.

Keywords: Dual-track pricing; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H3 P2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2012.05.005

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