Focus and Scope

Scope and Topics

MEF welcomes original empirical research articles, mathematical and computational modeling papers, systematic literature reviews, and policy analyses. Core thematic areas include, but are not limited to:

• Quantitative & Empirical Asset Pricing: Factor models, equity valuation, derivative pricing, market microstructure, portfolio optimization, and liquidity risk modeling.

• Banking, Financial Intermediation & FinTech: Credit risk assessment, digital banking architectures, algorithmic trading, decentralized finance (DeFi), and systemic risk in banking networks.

• Macroeconomic Policy & Monetary Economics: Central bank frameworks, inflation targeting, fiscal-monetary interactions, currency markets, and sovereign debt sustainability.

• Corporate Finance & Governance: Capital structure decisions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), payout policies, corporate investment efficiency, and executive compensation dynamics.

• Applied Econometrics & Financial Big Data: Time series forecasting, panel data econometrics, spatial economics, machine learning in financial forecasting, and high-frequency data modeling.

• Sustainable Finance & ESG Matrix: Green bonds, climate risk pricing in financial assets, sustainable investment portfolios, and carbon credit market dynamics.