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People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies
Margrit Kennedy, Bernard Lietaer, John Rogers, Triarchy Press, UK, July 2012
WIR Bank Report - RAI Television English SUB
by Giorgio Simonetti
2010
Residual Barter Networks and Macro-Economic Stability: Switzerland’s Wirtschaftsring
James Stodder, December 2007
BNB - The alternative currency of the Social Economy Network Cooperative in Basel, Switzerland
2005
Currency Pluralism and Economic Stability: The Swiss Experience
The Swiss complementary currency WIR is a classic example of monetary creation managed by economic agents lying outside the traditional banking system. When faced with tightening of credit or liquidity crises, Swiss small businesses increase their WIR transactions; when conditions improve, they return to the Swiss franc. This countercyclical effect illustrates the potential for parallel currencies to serve as tools for macroeconomic stability.
Wojtek Kalinowski, November 2011
International Conference on Community and Complementary Currencies 2011: “Thirty years of community and complementary currencies – what next?”,February 16 – February 17, 2011, Lyon, France
Krister Volkmann, February 2011
WIR and the Swiss National Economy
Published by the WIR Bank, Basel. Title of German original: “WIR in unserer Volkswirtschaft”
Tobias Dr. Studer, 1998