Trust versus illusion: What is driving demonetization in the former Soviet Union?

Dalia Marin

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: The virtual economy argument for Russia suggests that barter allows the parties to pretend that the manufacturing sector is producing value added by enabling this sector to sell its output at a higher price than its market value. We confront this prediction with the actual pricing behaviour of industrial sectors in Ukraine in 1997. Based on the pricing data of 165 barter deals we find no systematic difference in the pricing behaviour in non-cash transactions across sectors. What appears to matter for the pricing behaviour is whether the firm is on the selling or buying end of the barter transaction. We offer a model that sees this pricing behaviour as a mechanism to deal with the absence of trust and liquidity in the economy.

Date: 2002
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Published in Economics of Transition 1 10(2002): pp. 173-200

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