The main goal of this essay is to analyze the emergence of a barter economy, and the rise of centralized merchants and … a barter redistribution system out of a primitive barter system. The environment is a spatial general equilibrium model … advanced barter system leading to the appearance of centralized merchants. This more sophisticated system is the redistribution …

We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on … role of money and its functions in real economies by showing the limitations and inefficiencies of the traditional barter …

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the use of non- monetary transactions (barter, debt offsets …-monetary transactions as a survival mechanism that oils the gears of the market. The latter asserts that barter is a symptom of a system by … which the value added firms (such as Gasprom) subsidize the value destroying firms (the 'white elephants'). Barter allows …

Using a macroeconometric framework, this paper analyses relationships among money, barter and inflation in Russia … during the transition period. Following the development of a theoretical framework that introduces barter in a standard small … findings suggest that barter has resulted partly from output losses and partly from a reduction in real money balances, but to …

emergence of a monetary economy out of a redistribution barter system where goods are sent to a central market and then … redistributed among individuals. We show that, as the population increases beyond a certain point, the barter exchange system …

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corporate entrepreneurship. They examined the effect of a firm’s strategy, organisation and external environment. It appears …