International Journal of Economics and Finance
International Journal of Economics and Finance (IJEF) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers in the field of economics, financial economics and finance. The journal is published monthly in both print and online versions by the Canadian Center of Science and Education.
The scope of IJEF includes the fields in the economics and finance. Authors are encouraged to submit complete, unpublished, original, and full-length articles that are not under review in any other journals. The online version of the journal is free access and download. If you want to order print copies, please visit: www.ccsenet.org/store
Statistics
2014: Articles Received: 531; Accepted: 330; Rejected: 177; Published: 290; Retracted: 1
2014 Q4: Articles Received: 131; Accepted: 89; Rejected: 29; Published: 71; Retracted: 0
2014 Q3: Articles Received: 106; Accepted: 69; Rejected: 30; Published: 77; Retracted: 1
2014 Q2: Articles Received: 128; Accepted: 85; Rejected: 44; Published: 71; Retracted: 0
2014 Q1: Articles Received: 166; Accepted: 87; Rejected: 74; Published: 71; Retracted: 0
2013: Articles Received: 548; Accepted: 253; Rejected: 292; Published: 187; Retracted: 1
2013 Q4: Articles Received: 172; Accepted: 88; Rejected: 91; Published: 50; Retracted: 1
2013 Q3: Articles Received: 139; Accepted: 53; Rejected: 74; Published: 40; Retracted: 0
2013 Q2: Articles Received: 112; Accepted: 46; Rejected: 70; Published: 44; Retracted: 0
2013 Q1: Articles Received: 125; Accepted: 66; Rejected: 57; Published: 53; Retracted: 0
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IJEF follows APA style.
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Author Guidelines
1. Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors and typos.
2. Research papers should not exceed 8,000 words.
3. A separate title page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).
4. The first page of an article should contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words and a maximum of eight keywords.
5. Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.
6. All appendices should be numbered consecutively using uppercase roman numerals and shown after the list of references.
7. References should be cited within the text as follows: According to Wickremasinghe (2005), foreign exchange market … These results are inconsistent with those of other studies (Perera, 1995; Silva, 2000)
8. List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order and follow the style of APA
9. Author should register with the journal before submitting manuscripts.
10. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected manuscripts should be submitted, and the publication fee should be paid within 10 working days.
11. The publication fee is 300USD.
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NOTE:
The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (ithenticate.com).
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Index/List/Archive
Vol 7, No 1 (2015)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Commodity Export Prices and Exchange Rate: An Australian Perspective | |
| Rajiv Bhar | p1 |
| The Size and Value Effect to Explain Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns in Dhaka Stock Exchange | |
| Md. Bokhtiar Hasan, Md. Nurul Alam, Md. Ruhul Amin, Md. Afzalur Rahaman | p14 |
| Dividends as a Solution to Agency Cost and Opaqueness: Theory and Evidence | |
| Brandon C. L. Morris, Brian S. Roseman | p24 |
| Pessimism Shocks in a Model of Global Macroeconomic Interdependence | |
| Rod Tyers | p37 |
| Financial Constraints and U.S. Recessions: How Constrained Firms Invest Differently | |
| Timothy J. Haase | p60 |
| CEO Traits, Corporate Performance, and Financial Leverage | |
| Hsien-Chang Kuo, Lie-Huey Wang, Dan Lin | p68 |
| The Impact of Independent Directors on the Cash Conversion Cycle of American Manufacturing Firms | |
| Amarjit Gill, Nahum Biger, John Obradovich | p87 |
| Using Quantile Regression to Analyze Mutual Fund Risk and Investor Behavior of Variable Life Insurance | |
| Nan-Yu Wang, Sen-Sung Chen, Chih-Jen Huang, Cheng-Hsin Yen | p97 |
| Effects of Economic Growth on CO2 Emissions in the “Congo Basin” Countries | |
| Nkengfack Hilaire, Hervé Kaffo Fotio | p107 |
| Decay Factor as a Determinant of Forecasting Models | |
| Grzegorz Mentel, Jacek Brozyna | p118 |
| Data Uncertainty, the Output Gap and Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom | |
| Graeme Chamberlin | p129 |
| Trends of Project Funding in Provincial-Level Agricultural Research Institutions in China and Recommendations for Fund Management | |
| Xia Li, Ying Chen, Hezhong Dong | p147 |
| Estimating the Turkish Sectoral Market Returns via Arbitrage Pricing Model under Neural Network Approach | |
| Fazil Gokgoz, Ozge Sezgin-Alp | p154 |
| The Role of Regulations and Ethics Auditing to Cope with Information Technology Governance from Point View Internal Auditors | |
| Atallah Ahmad Al Hosban | p167 |
| Drivers for Wealth Creation in Firms: An Empirical Evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council Markets | |
| Rajesh Kumar | p177 |
| Empirical Study about The Interaction Between Equalization Funds, Regional Financial and Human Development Index in Regional Economic | |
| Timbul Hamonangan Simanjuntak, Imam Mukhlis | p192 |
| Determinants of Bank Performance in Ghana, the Economic Value Added (EVA) Approach | |
| George Owusu-Antwi, Lord Mensah, Margret Crabbe, James Antwi | p203 |
| The Capital Asset Pricing Model: An Overview of the Theory | |
| Mona A. Elbannan | p216 |
| Trends & Emerging Areas in Merchant Acquiring Industry | |
| Tapomoy Koley, Shounak Ghosh, Shameek Ghosh | p229 |
| Financial Development, Trade Openness and Economic Growth: A Trilateral Analysis of Bahrain | |
| Hatem Hatef Abdulkadhim Altaee, Mohamed Khaled Al-Jafari | p241 |
| Merger Returns and Choice of Payment Method: A Case from the Indian Banking Industry | |
| Rohan Chinchwadkar | p255 |
| The Determinants of the Tunisian Banking Performance: A Panel Data Analysis | |
| Ines Ayadi, Abderrazak Ellouze | p262 |
| Reviewer Acknowledgements for International Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 7, No. 1 | |
| Michael Zhang | p273 |
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