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Lange and Hayek Revisited: Lessons from Czech Voucher Privatization

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Jan Hanousek
Randall K. Filer

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A fundamental question in economics since the 1930s has been whether an administrative price system could simulate the results of perfect competition even without a true market for the means of production. The theoretical possibility of such a system has been known since the introduction of market socialism by Oskar Lange. We have used the artificial bidding market involved in the Czech voucher privatization process to test whether a sequential process of trial-and-error can set administrative prices close to equilibrium. It would appear from this natural experiment that Robbins and Hayek were correct in doubting the real-world feasibility of market socialism.

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Paper provided by The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economic Institute, Prague in its series CERGE-EI Working Papers with number wp166.

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Keywords: bidding scheme; Oskar Lange’s model; privatization; price setting; voucher scheme;

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P00 - Economic Systems - - General - - - General
P22 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Prices

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  1. Hanousek, Jan & Kroch, Eugene A, 1998. "The Two Waves of Voucher Privatization in the Czech Republic: A Model of Learning in Sequential Bidding," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 133-43, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Hingorani, Archana & Lehn, Kenneth & Makhija, Anil K., 1997. "Investor behavior in mass privatization: The case of the Czech voucher scheme," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 349-396, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Jan Svejnar & Miroslav Singer, 1994. "Using vouchers to privatize an economy: the Czech and Slovak case," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 2(1), pages 43-69, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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