Payments in Kind

Tore Ellingsen

No 244, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: Payments in kind pose an enduring and empirically important puzzle. The paper provides a formalization of the popular view that payment in kind are due to financial constraints. The key assumption is that buyers' liquidity is private information. Buyers who are financially constrained may prove their hardship by making part of the payment in kind. The paper models explicitly the credit market imperfections which lead to payments in kind and yields predictions which are consistent with a number of empirical observations. In particular, it offers a coherent explanation for the recent explosion of barter in Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Keywords: In-kind payments; barter; countertrade; financial constraints; price discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 F10 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 1998-06-09, Revised 2000-02-10
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