Economics

MANUSCRIPTS
Economics encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX, MS Word – standard DOCUMENT .docx/.doc. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors.

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.
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Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Editor-in-Chief
Katharine Rockett, University of Essex, UK

Editorial Contact
Kumaran Rengaswamy
Assistant Managing Editor, Compuscript
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

Managing Editor
Małgorzata Milewska, De Gruyter
malgorzata.milewska@degruyterbrill.com

Editorial Advisory Board
Willem H. Buiter, Independent Economic Advisor, Maverecon LLC
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, USA
David Hirshleifer, University of California-Irvine, USA

Section Editors

Microeconomics:
Thomas Gehrig, University of Vienna, Austria

Economics as an Evolutionary Science:
Dennis J. Snower, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Global Solutions Initiative, Germany
David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University, USA
Angus Armstrong, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, UK

co-Editors
A. Mohammed Abubakar, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey (Guest Editor)
Antonio Afonso, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Omid Ardakani, Georgia Southern University, US
Evangelia Chalioti, Yale University, USA
Irma Clots-Figueras, University of Kent, UK
Francesca Cornaglia, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Juan Carlos Cuestas, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Vincenzo De Lipsis, University of Southampton, UK
Seyyed Ahmad Edalatpanah, Ayandegan Institute of Higher Education, Iran
Salvatore Ercolano, University of Basilicata, Italy
Albin Erlanson, University of Essex, UK
Ben Etheridge, University of Essex, UK
Christos Evangelinos, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Chiara Franco, University of Pisa, Italy
Chengbo Fu, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Robert Gillanders, Dublin City University Business School, Ireland
Menelaos Gkartzios, Izmir Institute of Technology, Professor, Turkey; Newcastle University, Reader, UK
Sebastian Goerg, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Xu Gong, Xiamen University, China
Emmanuel Haven, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Marc Ivaldi, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Nikita Jacob, University of York, United Kingdom
Shin Kanaya, University of Essex, UK
Dusanee Kesavayuth, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Robert Kollmann, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Ioannis Korkos, Essex Business School, UK
Gregory Koronakos, University of Piraeus, Greece
Phoebe Koundouri, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Qingfeng Liu, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan
Cheryl Long, Xiamen University, China
Andreas Löschel, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Germany
Bei Lyu, Huaibei Normal University, China ; Panyapiwat Institute Management, Thailand
Carlos Madeira, Central Bank of Chile, Chile
Alice Mesnard, University of London, UK
Winston Moore, The University of the West Indies, Barbados
Antonella Nocco, Universita del Salento, Lecce, Italy
Martin Paldam, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Filomena Pietrovito, University of Molise, Italy
Amedeo Piolatto, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Alberto Franco Pozzolo, Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy
Dhimitri Qirjo, SUNY - Plattsburgh, USA
W. Robert Reed, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Mary Rigdon, University of Arizona, USA
Neslihan Sakarya, University of Essex, UK
Simona Scabrosetti, Università di Pavia, Italy
Yacoub Sleibi, Swansea University, UK
Mohamed Sraieb, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait; European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Belgium
Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph
Anna Straubinger, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Germany
Otto H. Swank, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Daniel Taras, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Bonn, Germany
Hendrik Theine, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stefan Tscharaktschiew, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Albert de Vaal, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Marco Vivarelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

Publisher
De Gruyter Brill Sp. z o.o.
Nowogrodzka St. 4/3
00-513 Warsaw, Poland
T: +48 22 245 33 55

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