Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction / Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger -- Living large : introduction -- Tuzex and the hustler : living it up in Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren -- Utopia gone terribly right : plutonium's "gated communities" in the Soviet Union and the United States /...

The paper examines the short- and long-term effects of price liberalization in a reforming socialist economy. The analysis is based on an optimizing framework that highlights hoarding behavior and the existence of parallel goods markets. The behavior of official and parallel market prices, stock...

The paper examines the short- and long-term effects of price liberalization in a reforming socialist economy. The analysis is based on an optimizing framework that highlights hoarding behavior and the existence of parallel goods markets. The behavior of official and parallel market prices, stock...