Guriev S. Barter in the Russian Companies – alternative reasons and empirical results.
     The Author discusses the alternative macroeconomic and microeconomic reasons of the wide-spread barter transactions in the Russian economy in the end of 1990s. Methods of alternative theories’ testing is considered. The Russian and foreign scholars’ empirical results are compared. Special attention is given to dramatic reduction of barter transactions in the post-crisis period (August 1998), as well as the research problems still to be solved.


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