2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2011.00554.x
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The Superiority of Monetary Over Barter Exchange: Experimental Results and Policy Implications

Abstract: William Stanley Jevons suggested that monetary exchange is socially superior to barter exchange because agents' optimization is simplified by the use of money. We experimentally study how subjects perform under monetary and barter exchange and find that a majority of subjects achieve a higher utility level in the monetized economy. The individual choices are statistically analyzed in order to track important elements of suboptimal decision making like the tendency to under‐ or over‐react to price signals. Our … Show more

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