Aims and Scope

American Finance & Banking Review (AFBR) is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal. The initiative is the result of close cooperation between "CRIBFB (USA)" and " American Finance & Banking Society [Affiliated Societies]". The Journal's emphasis is on empirical, applied, and policy-oriented research in Finance & Banking, law, for financial institutions and markets. The Journal's purpose is to improve communications between the academic and other research communities and policymakers and 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).

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.

Section Policies

Articles

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  • Original Articles

Original full-length research papers clearly state their objective or hypothesis, the experimental design and methods used, the essential features of any interventions, the main outcome measures, the result from the study, and a section placing the results in the context of published literature.

Checked Open Submissions      Checked Indexed Checked Peer-Reviewed

  • Short Communications

Report results of a pilot study or preliminary findings from a study. The scope of this section is intended to be wide and to encompass methodology and experimental data on subjects of interest to the readers of the Journal.

Checked Open Submissions      Checked Indexed Checked Peer-Reviewed