Can ice cream be money?: Perishable medium of exchange

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-125

  Cuadras Morató, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Money; Perishable commodities; Search theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042988919     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01234402     Document Type: Article

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