Corporate Barter and Economic Stabilisation

James Stodder
stodder@mstr.hgc.edu

International Journal of Community Currency Research Vol 2 (1998) pp.
ISSN 1325-9547

Abstract

Twenty-two years of data on North American corporate barter reveal strong counter- cyclical tendencies. Corporate barter changes in the same direction as wholesale inventories, but against changes in capacity utilization or gross domestic product. Standard arguments on the inefficiency of barter need to be seriously reevaluated. The findings have implications for trade and monetary policy, both domestically and internationally

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