Disorganization and financial collapse

Marin, Dalia and Schnitzer, Monika (2005): Disorganization and financial collapse. In: European Economic Review, Vol. 49, No. 2: pp. 387-408

Abstract

Since the fall of communism, the former Soviet Union experienced a strong output decline and a dramatic increase in arrears and barter. We develop a model which explains how these three phenomena are connected. We introduce liquidity and credit constraints into a model of disorganization and show how these problems can alleviate the hold-up problem. We argue further that barter creates a hostage that allows to deal with disorganization when credit enforcement becomes prohibitively costly. Based on a firm survey in Ukraine in 1997, we test how input shortages, financial shortages and barter affect output growth of firms.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Economics; Economics > Chairs > Chair of International Economics; Economics > Chairs > Seminar for Comparative Economics
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• Language: English