EVE General Discussion

The metric you're looking for is the velocity of money. CCP Quant includes an overall assessment in his monthly economic updates http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/MER/Feb_2017/9c_velocity.png

I don't know if the data is available to break it down by trade hub.

There are other graphs that should do exactly that. Import/exports of the different regions. Jita itself is no surprise. Look for the economic report from ccp, they do it monthly?

Yes I know this. Its not exactly what Im looking for.

The import/exports breaks it down simply by region to anywhere else, like a country, it doesnt say what regions or where the isk flows or how fast it flows THROUGH a hub. Your country's reserve bank prints extra money, that money is loaned to banks, which is then loaned or given to you through withdrawals, which you pay to someone for a good or service or pay your employees or taxes and it continues to flow around. My question is simply this, seeing as the trade hubs are central points for all New Eden and theres really only a handful of them how quickly does isk flow through and around them and around the Everse?

Velocity of isk is a metric yet it is simply the speed at which all isk moves throughout New Eden and not where or where through it might flow. Trade balances and import/export tells how much is produced and bought for but not where and where through.

Both of these are enough for most this is simply idle curiousity for myself and not what the trader alts are or anything lol. I am actually enthralled with Jita being 78% of all trade in game and how fast any single isk made anywhere in New Eden would actually get there and flow back to its original point. Same with the other lesser hubs. Just like I have an idle curiousity of how fast itd take for each USD or whatever currency to travel around the world in general. But unlike real life where that stuff is rather hard to track this IS something that could be possible because of the nature of this game.

It would ironically, in a completely electronic world monetary currency, have real world implications for trade and money movement as if a true electronic currency integration is ever done it would also be able to be fully tracked in this way. The IMF is already started to value the major currencies into a currency basket and has for years based on their own weighting of the most valuable currencies. So this is less and less a far fetched reality as more and more businesses and transactions are going cashless as well as economies being tied together tighter and tighter and borders are less and less of an issue for international trade.

But hey its just me being curious.

Yet in this case because it is electronic you technically could. Youd just need a lot of smileys on a lot of banknotes. Its the same as tracking a cell phone if you will as it pings off different towers as you move around. With real life currency its rather hard and you need others cooperation. When its electronic putting on an e-tag if you will to ping you when it moves to a certain location is possible and then all you need is enough e-tags on single units to ensure a good spread and enough movement. Tagging one isk on each person and it might take ages for that person to move that single isk, but tagging hundreds or thousands randomly will show where they eventually flow and how fast they do so. So electronically its a lot easier to track and trace things than in real life.

Wow, you know nothing about economics by this entire answer.