This article is intended to serve as the permanent 'place to begin' for this wiki, either as a reference for quickly navigating to specific resources or for new contributors to orient themselves. As such it looks a bit like a collection of odds-and-ends, but hopefully a very useful one! Key entries Read me - a statement of purpose for this wiki plus guidelines for contributors. Reference - definitions, terminology and mathematical notation used in this wiki. Things to measure - top-level entry listing the categories of entity (e.g. Trade Credit Club) or field (e.g. environmental impact) that research is focused on. Index of all entries An alphabetised list of all entries for quick reference.
10/28/2021This is classified as a potential source of risk reduction for Trade Credit Club members. As discussed in the risk reduction entry, late payment risk is analysed in terms of the probability distributions associated with the time intervals between invoices being issued and settled; to avoid potentially misleading assumptions, there is no attempt to quantify risk in fiat units. There are two categories of payment that have to be considered; bilateral payments between trading partners, and (after the establishment of a trade credit club) payments to or from a dedicated club account that keeps members within their agreed mutual credit balances. Bilateral payments In this section the replacement of fiat with mutual credit to settle bilateral trade credit invoices is considered. It is assumed that the numbers of transactions and their amounts are unchanged, and so the argument for late payment risk reduction is based on the plausibility of influencing behaviour such that the distributions of time intervals associated with invoice settlement for mutual credit become more favourable than the distributions associated with the erstwhile fiat payments. Trade credit settled in fiat
6/14/2021This is categorised as an account metric. In a mutual credit system, participants' account balances must be kept with limits. Maintaining a balance close to either limit results in reduced scope for buying or selling, whilst holding a large positive balance corresponds to exposure to systemic risk. It will therefore generally be in the interests of each member to maintain a balance close to zero much of the time. This is also desirable from the perspective of the other network participants; in the short term a large negative balance indicates that the member has received more value than it has supplied to them and a large positive balance means less liquidity available to facilitate trade, whilst in the longer term it prevents the emergence of harmful balance inequalities and hoarding of credit. It is therefore useful to have a metric that reflects the tendency of an account balance to return to or hover around zero. Since all credits issued by a participant must ultimately be redeemed with them, there is also a sense in which such a metric reflects the 'circularity' of that account's activity. If the notion of 'circular money for a circular economy' has merit, then this could also provide a point of departure for analysing the effect of mutual credit networks on the material circular economy. This note introduces the 'zero crossing frequency' as an appropriate measure of account health in the three respects described above; individual utility, desirability from the perspective of other participants and propensity for circularity.
3/18/2021This is a subset of things to measure. A list of things related to measuring, analysing and representing the activity of a given member of a mutual credit club, representing the lowest level of analysis (aside from individual transactions?). This list is composed mostly of descriptive measures that reflect the activity and health of a member's account once it has joined a club. However, on the assumption that members will initially participate primarily out of self-interest, i.e. direct benefits to their own business, there is also a dedicated category for these. Account balance Account balance circularity Account balance limits Account balance utilisation
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