The Journal of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI) announced the following special issue and call for papers:

“After the financial crisis” can always be seen as the period before the next financial crises. Even in periods of relative stability, economic inequalities and climate calamities are stretching the social fabric on the local, national, and international levels. Complementary currencies have been deployed to supplement conventional currency systems and ameliorate their shortcomings, even before the emergence of cryptocurrencies. Thus, monetary plurality is a reality not only during financial crises, but it is a recurrent characteristic of capitalist economies. Monetary monopoly over a national territory is a mission that has never been completely accomplished.

This Special Issue focuses on the role of individual complementary currencies and monetary diversity generally in stabilizing our financial systems and alleviating the impact of risk and crisis on the local, national or international scale. Research questions welcome for this publication include but are not limited to, the stabilizing or destabilizing effect of complementary currencies within monetized capitalist societies, their life-cycles in relation to national and international crisis, the impact of blockchain technologies in the application of currency innovations, and the conceptual and regulatory paradigms that support or impede monetary diversity as a key element of systemic resilience.

We invite original contributions in English that focus on issues of mitigation of risk, monetary resilience, and economic and social sustainability. Eligible contributions are not limited to quantitative methods. Data and core findings need to be presented in a minimum of one diagram or chart.

For details and manuscript submission please see the journal’s website or email Leander Bindewald.