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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Community Currency Research Année : 2020

Toward spatial analyses of local currencies: the case of France

Csaba Lakócai
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This paper suggests that studies on local currencies (LCs) should engage in spatial analyses, as far as their territorial distribution is highly heterogeneous. It provides a statistical overview of the territorial features of LCs functioning in France, wherein their number has increased solidly and remarkably fast over the last decade. However, there is a huge variety in their extent, and their development has not been spatially even, especially with regards to the administrative subdivision of the country in departments (counties or departments that correspond to the NUTS-3 level of regions according to the administrative territorial classification of the EU). This uneven distribution let us presume that it is interrelated with different territorial conditions, which motivated our research. We build a size index of LCs and provide a cluster presentation of them as of 2018. A departmental territorial breakdown of data shows statistically significant spatial concentrations of LCs in France. We then provide insights into the reasons for such concentrations.
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halshs-02520797 , version 1 (04-04-2020)

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Jérôme Blanc, Csaba Lakócai. Toward spatial analyses of local currencies: the case of France. International Journal of Community Currency Research, 2020, 24 (1), pp.11-29. ⟨10.15133/j.ijccr.2020.002⟩. ⟨halshs-02520797⟩
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