Dear IJCCR followers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of this year. Enjoy the reading!

Editorial Masayuki Yoshida	I-II
Relationship between a community currency issuance organization’s philosophy and its issuance form: a Japanese case study Masayuki Yoshida, Shigeto Kobayashi, and Yoshihisa Miyazaki	1-15
Cryptocurrencies for social change: the experience of Monedapar in Argentina Ricardo Orzi, Raphael Porcherot and Sebastián Valdecantos	16-33
Integral research on the lake district pound: six mixed methods for assessing the impact of a currency Christophe Place, Jem Bendell, Ian Chapman, Jamie McPhie and David Murphy	34-51
Exploring social capital within Damietta’s furniture industry value chain as a mode of community currency Nourhan Heysham, Hisham Elkadi and Sara Biscaya	52-67
Tax-credit instruments as complementary currencies: a policy proposal for fighting the austerity while saving the Euro zone Thomas Coutrot and Bruno Théret	68-74
Chiemgauer Complementary Currency – Concept, Effects, and Econometric Analysis Christian Gelleri and James Stodder	75-95
Rethinking the Significance of Regional Currencies: The Case of the Chiemgauer Kiminori Hayashi	96-106
Prospects of implementation of complementary currencies at the municipal level by dataset of economical agents banking transactions A.A. Panachev and D.B. Berg	107-115
Merit signal – the éminence grise of economic systems Alexander Zatko	116-129
Revitalizing Local Communities through Regional Currencies Using GIS: A Case Study in Kasama and Kesennuma in Japan Mayumi Dan and Kayo Okabe	130-158

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