Aims and Scope

American Finance & Banking Review (AFBR) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal. The Journal emphasizes empirical, applied, and policy-oriented research in Finance & Banking law for financial institutions and markets. The journal aims to improve communications between academic and other research communities, policymakers, operational decision-makers at financial institutions (private and public), and their regulators. The subject areas that are relevant to the journal scope include:

  • Asset Pricing
  • Bankruptcy Prediction and Determinants
  • Corporate Finance
  • International Finance
  • Financial Derivatives
  • Rural Finance
  • Insurance
  • Fixed Income Securities
  • Alternative Investments
  • Portfolio and Security Analysis
  • Time Value of Money
  • Credit Risk Modelling and Management
  • Financial Engineering
  • Foreign Exchange Markets
  • Law and Finance
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Mutual Funds Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Regulations of Financial Markets
  • Venture Capital
  • Microcredit
  • Valuation
  • Risk and Return
  • Liquidity Management
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Financial Accounting
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Microeconomics
  • Econometrics models
  • Macroeconomics etc.
  • Asset-Liability Management
  • Bank Assurance
  • Banking Crises
  • Corporate Governance
  • Derivatives and Structured Financial Products
  • Efficiency and Performance of Financial Institutions and Bank Branches
  • Financing Decisions of Banks
  • Investment Banking
  • Management of Financial Institutions
  • Technological Progress and Banking
  • Foreign Exchange Management
  • Conventional Vs. Non-Conventional Banking
  • Internet Banking
  • Mobile Banking
  • Retail Banking
  • E-Banking
  • CSR of Bank
  • SMEs Banking etc.

Subject Area – Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Subject Category – Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous), Finance; Subject Area – Social Sciences. Subject Category – Law (3308).

Please define the type of the manuscript of four possible variants and adhere to both the general guidelines and the recommendations, which are specific to the type of the chosen manuscript.

The following types of manuscripts can be submitted to the journal:

  • research paper, which is a final report on the finished original experimental study (the structure is Abstract, Introduction, Literature review, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussions, and Conclusions);
  • theoretical paper, which is devoted to the theoretical study of the problem which complies with the journal’s scope (the structure is Abstract, Introduction, Theoretical Basis, Results, Discussions, and Conclusions);
  • review paper, which is a study of a concrete scientific problem that complies with the journal’s scope and is conducted based on the materials of the scientific publications (the structure is Abstract, Introduction, Literature review, generalization of the main statements, Discussions, Conclusions);
  • short communication paper on the event (conference, seminar, exhibition, issue of the important monograph), which complies with the journal’s scope (the paper is structured by the author on his/her own, but with compulsory reference to the date and place of the event, however, it does not include a big list of references and supplementary materials).

Publication Schedule

AFBR strives to keep a continuous publication schedule so that articles are published online as soon as they are ready and as quickly as possible, as often as a daily publication that has published 1 volume and 1 issue yearly since 2023.