This paper specifies and estimates a four-equation disequilibrium model of the consumption goods market in a centrally planned economy(CPE).The data are from Poland for the period 1955-1980, but the analysis is more general and will be applied to other CPEs as soon as the appropriate data sets...

1: The Linkage System -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Some Conventions -- 1.3 Elements of a World Trade Linkage Model -- 1.4 Methods of Trade Linkage -- 1.5 A Sluice -- Footnotes to Chapter 1 -- 2: Import Allocation Models -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical Considerations -- 2.2.4 The adding-up...