SFB 303 Discussion Paper No. A - 129
Author: Dierker, Egbert, and Wilhelm Neuefeind
Title: Quantity Guided Price Setting
Abstract: We consider an economy with two sectors. The first sector consists of competitively behaving consumers
and producers; the second, non-competitive, sector, the P-sector, consists of firms (P-firms) producing
commodities (P-goods) that are not produced in the competitive sector. The P-firms receive their gross output
levels and the market prices of their inputs as decision parameters. They minimize costs and set prices for their
outputs according to a specific pricing rule. There is also a planning agency that ensures that a curtain net
production (gross production minus the intra-consumption in the P-sector) of the P-goods is achieved.
We give assumptions assuring the existence of equilibrium which requires market clearing, meeting the production
aspirations of the planning agency, and setting prices for the P-goods which are compatible with market prices in
the sense that the market prices cannot be higher than the prices to be charged by the P-firms, and if the target for
a P-good is exceeded, the price charged by the P-firm equals the market price.
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Creation-Date: August 1986
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