Aims and scope – KMF Publishers

Capital Market and Financial Review is an international refereed journal publishes quarterly online open access by KMF. The aim of the Capital Market and Financial Review is to provide an outlet for the increasing flow of scholarly research concerning financial institutions and the money and capital markets within which they function. It emphasis is on theoretical developments and their implementation, empirical, applied, and policy-oriented research in domestic and international financial institutions and markets. The Journal’s purpose is to improve communications between, and within, the academic and other research communities and policymakers and operational decision makers at financial institutions – private and public, national and international, and their regulators. The journal publishes a full range of research into theoretical and empirical topics in finance. The journal aims to publish work that is motivated by significant issues in the theory or practice of finance. It promotes communication between finance academics and practitioners by providing a vehicle for the publication of research issues, stimulating research in finance, encouraging the international exchange of ideas, theories and the practical application of methodologies and playing a positive role in the development of the infrastructure for finance research, teaching and practice. The Journal seeks manuscripts mainly in the following areas but not limited to:
 Asset Management & Asset Pricing;
 Banking (Efficiency, Regulation, Risk Management, Solvency);
 Behavioural Finance;
 Capital Structure;
 Corporate Finance;
 Corporate Governance;
 Derivative Pricing and Hedging;
 Distribution Forecasting with Financial Applications;
 Entrepreneurial Finance;
 Empirical Finance;
 Financial Economics;
 Financial Markets (Alternative, Bonds, Currency, Commodity, Derivatives, Equity, Energy, Real Estate);
 FinTech;
 Fund Management;
 General Equilibrium Models;
 High-Frequency Trading;
 Intermediation;
 International Finance;
 Hedge Funds;
 Investments;
 Liquidity;
 Market Efficiency;
 Market Microstructure;
 Mergers and Acquisitions;
 Networks;
 Performance Analysis;
 Political Risk;
 Portfolio Optimization; Regulation of Financial Markets and Institutions;
 Risk Management and Analysis;
 Systemic Risk;
 Term Structure Models;
 Venture Capital.

KMF Publication Ethics Statement

Capital Market and Financial Review is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. KMF takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. KMF takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use latest software to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Capital Market and Financial Review will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Law. The copyright is retained by the author(s). KMF will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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