Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93788 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 78
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
The rise of barter and non-cash payments has become a dominant feature of the Russian transition to a market economy. This paper confronts with empirical evidence two approaches to explain barter in Russia: the 'illusion view' and the 'trust view' of barter. The 'illusion view' suggests that barter allows the parties to pretend that the manufacturing sector in Russia is producing value added by enabling this sector to sell its output at a higher price than its market value. The 'trust view' sees barter as an institution to deal with the absence of trust and liquidity in the Russian economy. We confront the prediction of both explanations with actual data on barter in Ukraine in 1997. The data reject the 'illusion view'€˜ in favor of the '€˜trust view'€˜ of barter.
Subjects: 
imperfect input and capital markets
the virtual economy
trade credit
trust
contract enforcement
JEL: 
D20
G30
O10
P30
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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