Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47022 
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1992
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[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1992
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Kiel Working Paper No. 541
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Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
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This paper shows that in-kind-transfers are an effective instrument to stabilize agreements when compliance cannot be guaranteed. It demonstrates the weak superiority of in-kind-transfers for a unilateral relationship between two agents. In particular, it proves that, under conditions of perfect knowledge and necessary selfenforcement of contracts, both agents are at least not worse off by in-kind-transfers compared to monetary payments when no selfenforcing contract exists which,is based on monetary payments. This result holds for finitely and for infinitely repeated games.
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