Citation
Wagner, N.F. (2014), "Introducing the new editorial team and scope of Studies in Finance and Economics", Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-12-2013-0189
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Introducing the new editorial team and scope of Studies in Finance and Economics
Article Type: Editorial From: Studies in Economics and Finance, Volume 31, Issue 1
The intersection of finance and economics during the last decades has been and still is one of the most vivid interdisciplinary research areas in the overall field of business and economics. Not only in experiencing the recent global financial crisis, it has become obvious that our understanding of financial decisions and markets as well as their interaction with the economy as a whole is central to both the proper performance of as well as the public perception and support of modern societies. It is this relationship which makes research in the area and its dissemination important. Most of us today would agree that failures in understanding, conduct and control may induce immense costs and externalities.
Studies in Economics and Finance (SEF) is now a well-established journal in the area of finance and in the intersection between finance, financial markets, and economics. It will develop further to become a premier outlet for high quality empirical and theoretical research. The journal serves as a forum for peer-reviewed financial and economic studies. It is committed to the dissemination of research findings to as wide an audience as possible and it offers a unique opportunity for researchers to keep abreast of recent international developments in the area. The journal was initially named SEF, which makes obvious that, during the many recent years, its focus has gradually shifted from economics towards finance. This process is has now reached its equilibrium.
As the new acting Editor-in-Chief, the present first 2014 issue of SEF Volume 31 gives me the opportunity to announce that it will be a top point on our agenda to further improve the scholarly quality of the journal and to focus its contents on finance and the intersection between finance, financial markets, and economics. This said, it would be the aim to have SEF play a major role in finance and to further support SEF s placement in this specific category. It will be my pleasure to continue to collaborate with members of the recent editorial board, many of whom I had the chance to get in touch with recently, but I will also engage in the active search for new board members, who will be of great value in supporting our future quality and content targets. In order to keep up to date with our recent journal developments, please visit the journals new web site at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/sef.htm
Given the refocused aims and scopes of the journal, its coverage will now include topics such as applied econometrics, asset management, finance and economic growth, financial management and financial markets, financial market efficiency and behavioral inefficiencies, financial market structure and information processing, financial markets and emerging economies, international finance and economics, investments, long term financing, markets and monetary economics, risk management, small and medium sized enterprises, as well as venture capital and private equity.
Finally, I would like to use this opportunity to thank the former Editor-in-Chief, as well as the Advisory Editors and the Associate Editors, for their highly valuable support and feedback during the recent period of transition. I am also extremely grateful to the Managing Editor, Katie Spike, and to the Publisher, Valerie Robillard, as well as to the other members of the Emerald team for all of their invaluable help, support and advice during the past two months.
Niklas F. Wagner