Economic Notes

Review of Banking, Finance and Monetary Economics

Published on behalf of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA

Edited by:
Alessandro Vercelli, Antonia Roma, Alberto Dalmazzo, Andrea Berardi, Ian Cooper, Giovanni Ferri, Alessandro Santoni, Walter Torous

Print ISSN: 0391-5026
Online ISSN: 1468-0300
Frequency: Three times a year
Current Volume: 39 / 2010

TopAuthor Guidelines

Economic Notes now addresses issues in the fields of banking, finance and monetary economics. Its target audience is not only academics and researchers but also executives working in financial institutions, firms and the public sector, and it aims at encouraging a dialogue among people with academic, operational, and policy-making positions of responsibility.

In order to achieve this target papers must be plainly written, avoid unnecessary technicalities and make their aims and the relevance of results explicit. The Journal will also host innovative papers of a high technical standard, provided they are accompanied by an extensive non-technical summary. All articles will be refereed.

Manuscripts should be submitted, electronically (on disk or as e-mail attachment) in addition to two printed copies, to:

The Managing Editor,
Economic Notes,
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA,
Piazza Salimbeni,
3-53100 Siena,
Italy.
Tel: + 39 0577 294401
Fax: + 39 0577 2940484
Email: Economic.notes@banca.mps.it

All copies of typescripts should be submitted, double spaced throughout and typed clearly on one side of the paper only. Each copy should include a separate covering sheet, the number of words and the author's name, title, current address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. First time contributors to Economic Notes are kindly requested to include a brief curriculum of published works. Once accepted, contributors are encouraged to supply their paper on a disk together with the hard copy. Preferred file formats are WordPerfect, MS Word or AmiPro. If using other packages, the file should be saved as Rich Text Format or Text Only. The disk must be identical to the hard copy.

A paper should be preceded by a brief abstract which should state, in condensed form, the contribution made by the paper. Papers with contents of high technical standards should include also an extensive non-technical summary of at least one typewritten page. Manuscripts should not normally exceed 40 pages (approx. 30 lines per page and 65 spaces per line) including tables, figures, footnotes, and a summary of 100 words indicating the subject categories (JEL classifications).

No more than three levels of headings should be used. The Harvard style of referencing is used (author's name and date of publication bracketed in the text) and all works cited should be listed alphabetically by author after the main body of the text, style as follows:

D. LAIDLER (1991), The Golden Ages of the Quantity Theory, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

G. F. MATHEWSON - R. A. WINTER (1986), 'The Economics of Vertical Restraints in Distribution', in F. Mathewson and J. Stiglitz (eds), New Development in the Analysis of Market Structure, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

P. WANG - K. C. YIP (1992), 'Alternative Approaches to Money and Growth'. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking,24, pp. 553-62.

Book reviews

The journal proposes to host and foster book reviews, especially those on topics which the new editorial policy has endorsed. In particular, it encourages review essays which look at two or more publications simultaneously and enable the author, even briefly, to take stock of the state of the art in the field.

Biographical references should be included only if strictly necessary, with the exclusion of other works by the author of the review.

Tables and artwork

All tables and figures should be supplied on separate sheets, not included within the text, but have their intended position clearly indicated in the manuscript. Figures should be supplied as high quality, original artwork, and any lettering or linework should be able to sustain reduction to the final size of reproduction. Tints and complex shading should be avoided. Figures supplied on disk must be accompanied by a hard copy and should be originated in a drawing package and saved as an EPS file.

Comments on published articles should not normally exceed 10 pages (30 lines per page and 65 spaces per page). Before publishing a comment, a copy will be sent to the Author who will then be given an opportunity to reply in the same issue.

Proofs

The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. A working e-mail address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following web site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately.

Exclusive Licence Form.
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please note that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here