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The policy environment and relative price efficiency of Egyptian private sector manufacturing: 1987|88-1995|96

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  • Lullit Getachew

    (Pacific Economics Group, Madison, WI, USA)

  • Robin C. Sickles

    (Department of Economics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)

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We study the impact of policy and institutional constraints, and reforms undertaken to remedy them, on relative price efficiency and cost of the private manufacturing sector of Egypt. We undertake this study using a generalized cost function, which subsumes the standard neoclassical cost function as a special case. This approach allows us to assess the impact of such constraints, which include labor market, energy and financial sector ones, on relative prices and the structure of production, including factor demands, shares and cost. Our findings indicate the presence of substantial distortions in relative prices, and hence on cost, due to the policy environment. We also find improvements in relative price efficiency and cost performance as a result of policy reforms initiated to remove the constraints. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Lullit Getachew & Robin C. Sickles, 2007. "The policy environment and relative price efficiency of Egyptian private sector manufacturing: 1987|88-1995|96," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(4), pages 703-728.
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    DOI: 10.1002/jae.933
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