The paper presents some models involving a pair of actors that aim at bartering the goods from two privately owned pools of heterogeneous goods. In the models we discuss in the paper the barter can occur only once and can involve either a single good or a basket of goods from each actor/player. In the paper we examine both the basic symmetric model (one-to-one barter) as well as some other vers...

We evaluated the response of brown capuchin monkeys to two differentially valued tokens in an experimental exchange situation akin to a simple barter. Monkeys were given a series of three tests to evaluate their ability to associate tokens with food, then their responses were examined in a barter situation in which tokens were either limited or unlimited. Capuchins did not perform barter in the...

The online supply requirement management within a heterogonous environment represents a real challenge. While the traditional e-purchase is widely adopted, the e-barter seems to be an ambitious alternative. It is mainly solicited when suppliers might be unavailable or the delivery timeouts are important. Moreover, it reinforces the communication between the producer and his professional network...

In the present paper, the issue of the existence of optimal barter steady states is addressed in a stationary overlapping generations model with many commodities and many different long-lived consumers. A general characterization of the individual endowments leading to an optimal barter steady state is obtained. The result, which is a generalization of Benveniste and Cass (1986), is obtained as...

In this technical report we face the problem of the fair sharing of goods, bads and possibly services (also collectively termed items) among a set of players that cannot (or do not want to) use a common cardinal scale for their evaluation owing to the very qualitative and non economical nature of the items themselves. To solve this problem we present two families of protocols (barter protocols ...