Marin, Dalia; Kaufmann, Daniel; Gorochowskij, Bogdan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
In this paper we survey the common explanations of barter in transition economies and expose them to detailed survey … data on 165 barter deals in Ukraine in 1997. The evidence does not support the notion that soft budget constraints, lack of … restructuring, or that the virtual economy are the driving forces behind barter. Further, tax avoidance is only weakly associated …