Arbeitspapier

Disorganization and Financial Collapse

Recently, Blanchard and Kremer (BK) argued that disorganization has led to the output decline in the former Soviet Union. In this paper we introduce liquidity and credit constraints into the BK model and show how these problems can alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter creates a hostage which allows to deal with disorganization when credit enforcement is prohibitively costly. The theory helps to explain how the three observed phenomena of output decline, inter-firms arrears and barter in transition economies are connected. Based on a survey of 165 barter deals in the Ukraine in 1997, we reproduce the BK result with firm level and deal specific data and we show that in addition to the input shortage the financial shortage and barter have each an important effect on output growth.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 339

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Transition
financial crisis
output fall
credit constraint
barter
hold-up

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Marin, Dalia
Schnitzer, Monika
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2000

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Marin, Dalia
  • Schnitzer, Monika
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2000

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