Credit Liquidity

The ease with which barter credits can be spent on desired services within an exchange network. Low liquidity, where members accumulate credits but cannot find desirable services to spend them on, is the primary failure mode of barter exchanges. IRTA applies the Quantity Theory of Money (MV = PQ) to manage credit supply and recommends exchanges maintain enough service variety to ensure members can reliably spend their earnings.

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