Focus and Scope

The journal considers manuscripts in the following areas:

• Banking and financial intermediation
• Financial institutions and markets
• Monetary economics and monetary policy
• Financial stability and systemic risk
• Corporate finance and investment
• Financial inclusion and access to finance
• Fintech and digital financial services
• Development finance and public finance
• Capital markets and asset pricing
• Sustainable and green finance
• Islamic banking and finance where linked to development
• Macroeconomic development and financial-sector policy

Interdisciplinary manuscripts are welcome when the contribution is clearly anchored in the journal's principal field. Manuscripts that are primarily outside the scope, are purely descriptive without scholarly contribution, or lack adequate methodological or analytical rigor may be declined during editorial screening.