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Research
The subject of cooperatives and private currencies,
including detailed studies on the WIR Cooperative and the
American Trade System, has been researched by prominent
economists, experts in banking, financial and monetary
matters
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E. Valentini -
Trade Systems History - USA
ATS CEO and Co-Founder
2011 -
"The
Impact of Complementary Currencies on
Modern Trade Systems
by Ezio Valentini"
The
history, evolution and events that have
lead up to the development and
implementation of the American Trade
System (ATS).
2009 -
"Origins of the
Trade System, its Dynamics and Present
Applications" Ezio
Valentini describes where the idea came from, the dynamics
it provides in generating profits for participants and the
current applications in the market place.
J. Stodder - Rensselear -
Hartford, CT - USA
ATS
Advisory Board Member
2010 - " The
Macro-Stability of Swiss WIR-Bank Spending:
Balance and Leverage Effects"
James Stodder, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Hartford, CT, USA;
28 Page report. Since 1934 the Swiss
Wirtschaftsring (“Economic Circle”) or WIR-Bank,
has issued its own
currency. This WIR-money is used in a highly
counter-cyclical fashion: firms are cash-short
in a recession, and
economize by greater use of WIR.
2009 -
"Complementary
Credit Networks and Macro-Economic Stability: Switzerland’s
Wirtschaftsring"
James Stodder,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Hartford, CT, USA. June 5, 2009 - Appearing in
Journal
of Economic Behavior & Organization,
72, October, 2009, pp. 79–95.
This
paper emphasizes that, as the WIR solves exchange problem
with virtual money, it also helps stabilize the economy by
providing firms in the cooperative with more ability to
trade in down economic times that they would otherwise
possess.
2000 -
"RECIPROCAL EXCHANGE
NETWORKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MACROECONOMIC STABILITY"
James Stodder
an
economics professor at Rensselear Polytechnic
Institute at Hartford a 15-page report on
"Barter rings" in the US and Switzerland do
billions of dollars of trade each year. Their
turnover is seen to be counter-cyclical. Most
studies of the internet's macroeconomic impact
focus on the stabilizing effect of greater price
and inventory flexibility. The pre-internet
experience of these systems, however, suggests
that, for networks independent of direct
monetary exchange, expanded credit availability
may be even more stabilizing.
2000 -
Research Paper by Dr. James Stodder Reviewed
in WirPlus Magazine
A research paper by Dr. James P.
Stodder, Clinical Assistant Professor in the
Lally School of Management & Technology at
Rensselaer at Hartford, was reviewed for an
article that appeared in both the French and
German editions of the October 2000 issue of
WirPlus, the monthly magazine of the WIR
Bank based in Switzerland. Dr. Stodder has
provided background information about his
research paper, WIR Bank, the article and its
author, and an English translation of the full
text of the article.
B. Lietaer - UC Berkeley -
USA/Belgium
ATS
Advisory Board Member
2008
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"How
Businesses Can Save Themselves from the Impact of the
Banking Crisis"
A One
pager on the Business-to-Business (B2B) Currency solution by
Bernard Lietaer.
“The
Banking Crisis: What can Businesses do Now”
A 6 page summary of the Business2Business
currency proposal.
“Options for Managing Systemic Banking Crises”
The complete 30 page White Paper on all
the options for managing systemic banking crises and
their economic consequences.
M.
Pingle - Univ. NV Reno - USA
ATS
Advisory Board Member
2009
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"A
Commentary on Trade Systems in General and The American
Trade System in Particular"
Dr.
Mark
Pingle, an economics professor at the University of Nevada,
Reno, President, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral
Economics has researched and analyzed the American Trade
System and its Swiss counterpart, WIR Bank. He
expresses his opinion on the viability and potential for
success for the American operation.
T.
Studer - Basel University - Switzerland
1998
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“WIR and the Swiss National Economy”
Dr.
Tobias Studer, a Professor of Economics at Basel University,
published a 58-page report titled describing in detail
the working of the co-operative System and its credit
operation
W.
Wüthrich
- Switzerland
2004 ▬
"Alternatives to Globalization,
Cooperative Principle and Complementary Currency”
A report by Dr. W. Wüthrich and translated into English
by Professor Beard of Sonoma State University on the WIR
Bank System, a cooperative organization which in its nature
and development has by now become something unique in
Switzerland and in the world at large.
http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/ARCHIV/ZF_119d/T01.HTM
H. Defila - WIR Bank - Switzerland
1994
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“60 Years of the WIR Economic Circle Cooperative”
Article
in WIR Magazin written by Heidi Defila, a former Vice
President of WIR, Outlines the history and evolution of the
WIR Co-operative. It includes the challenges faced along the
way and how they were overcome
E.
Hansch
- WIR Report -
Great Barrington, MA - USA
1971
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"Initial
Results of WIR Research in Switzerland"
by Erick Hansch -
He traveled to Basel,
Switzerland to study the WIR program that had been in
operation since the 1930s. This report is the Initial
Results of WIR Research in Switzerland Fall 1971 by
Mr.Hansch.
www.smallisbeautiful.org/local_currencies/wir.hansch.html
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"Dual-Currency
Transactions"
In the WIR and ATS operations buying and
selling transactions are done using a
combination of the national currency
(cash) and the Trade Systems' private
currency (trade credits). This
provides important advantages both when
acquiring and when selling products and
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