The journal publishes high-quality theoretical and empirical papers spanning all the major research fields in banking and financial economics. The journal aims to provide a space for the increasing flow of academic research concerning banking, financial institutions, money and capital markets within which they function. It also focuses on the interrelations of financial variables, such as prices,
interest rates and shares. The Journal seeks to promote research that enriches the profession’s understanding of the above-mentioned topics as well as to promote the formulation of sound public policies. JBFE welcomes the publication of Special Issues, whose aim is to bring together and integrate work on a specific theme; open up a previously under-researched area; or bridge the gap between formerly rather separate research communities, that have been focusing on similar or related topics. Thematic issues are strongly preferred to a group of loosely connected papers.