About the Journal
About the Journal
Asian Financial Economics and Policy (AFEP) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to advancing rigorous, policy-relevant research in financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, capital markets, banking systems, financial regulation, and comparative economic analysis. The journal places particular emphasis on Asia and emerging-market contexts while welcoming comparative studies involving other developing, transition, and globally connected economies.
AFEP provides a scholarly platform for studies that examine how macroeconomic conditions, financial systems, institutional arrangements, and public policy shape market behavior, economic stability, investment outcomes, and long-term development. The journal welcomes research that connects economic indicators such as inflation, unemployment, GDP growth, interest rates, exchange rates, reserves, public expenditure, fiscal balances, sovereign debt, and external shocks with financial-market performance, banking activity, regulatory change, and broader policy concerns.
AFEP is especially interested in work that bridges economics, finance, and public policy. It encourages empirical, theoretical, econometric, comparative, and review-based contributions that deepen understanding of the interaction among markets, money, institutions, and policy. Country-specific studies, ASEAN-focused research, Asian comparative work, and cross-country macro-financial analyses are all within the journal’s scope, provided that they offer analytical depth, methodological transparency, and clear implications for scholarship, policy, regulation, or financial decision-making.
Thematic coverage includes, but is not limited to:
Financial economics, capital markets, asset pricing, valuation, market efficiency, volatility, and investor behavior
Macroeconomic indicators and financial-market outcomes, including inflation, unemployment, GDP growth, exchange rates, reserves, and trade balances
Monetary economics, central banking, inflation targeting, liquidity management, monetary transmission, and exchange-rate policy
Fiscal policy, taxation, public expenditure, sovereign debt, fiscal sustainability, and public finance
Banking systems, financial intermediation, non-performing loans, prudential regulation, and systemic stability
Financial inclusion, fintech, digital banking, payment systems, financial regulation, and technology-enabled financial transformation
International finance, capital flows, foreign direct investment, remittances, external shocks, and global financial spillovers
Development finance, structural transformation, productivity, inequality, industrial change, and economic policy
Comparative and regional economic analysis involving Asian economies, ASEAN, emerging markets, and transition economies
Cross-country and panel-data macro-financial studies using reputable public datasets, including WDI, IMF, ADB, World Bank, central bank, and other official or institutionally recognized data sources
AFEP considers original research articles, review articles, policy and analytical papers, comparative country studies, case-based economic or financial analyses, and short research notes. The journal welcomes diverse but rigorous methodologies, including econometric and statistical analysis, panel-data analysis, time-series and forecasting models, event studies, cross-sectional and comparative analysis, financial ratio and valuation analysis, structural modeling, institutional and policy review, mixed-methods approaches where appropriate, and systematic or evidence-based literature reviews.
AFEP prioritizes submissions that are not only technically competent but also relevant to real-world economic and financial challenges. The journal particularly encourages papers that connect macroeconomic variables to financial-market outcomes, examine policy effects on investment and stability, analyze real-world economic or financial shocks, provide comparative Asian or emerging-market evidence, and produce findings that are academically rigorous and practically meaningful.
The journal seeks to serve a broad but academically grounded readership that includes economists, finance scholars, public policy researchers, central bank and government analysts, regulators, banking and financial-sector professionals, development researchers, graduate students, institutional planners, and policy advisers. By publishing methodologically sound and analytically strong work, AFEP aims to contribute to informed scholarship, responsible financial practice, and meaningful policy discourse across Asia and comparable economies.
