Asian Economic Journal

Published on behalf of the East Asian Economic Association

Edited by:
Editor: Shigeyuki Abe; Managing Editors: Julan Du, Craig Parsons, Shandre M. Thangavelu, Jai-Won Ryou

Print ISSN: 1351-3958
Online ISSN: 1467-8381
Frequency: Quarterly
Current Volume: 24 / 2010

TopAuthor Guidelines

Editorial Office
Asian Economic Journal
c/o Professor Akira Kohsaka
Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP)
Osaka University
1-31, Machikaneyama-cho
Toyonaka
Osaka, 560-0043
Japan

Email: aej@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp

Instructions for Submissions

For the purpose of the Asian Economic Journal, 'Asia' is defined as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Any paper that is judged by the Editorial Board not to have a sufficient connection to one or more of these countries will not be accepted for publication.

Manuscripts should be submitted in a single file (including text, notes, references, figures, and tables) in MS-Word (doc) or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format only by email to aej@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp. Double submissions, that is, submitting the same or very similar paper to this journal while simultaneously submitting it elsewhere, will not be tolerated. Authors submitting papers by normal mail or courier will automatically be requested to provide an electronic version of their paper, and the refereeing process will not commence until after the electronic version is received by the Editorial Office. Once a paper has been accepted for publication, authors who submitted their papers in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format will be required to provide the final publication version of their paper in either MS-Word (doc) or LaTeX format. The preferred format for the final publication version of graphs and charts is eps format, but Excel format is also acceptable. Excel format is acceptable for the final publication version of tables. Authors providing the final publication version of their paper in LaTeX will also be required to provide a hard copy version of their paper.

The length of an article (including tables, figures and appendices) should not exceed 35 pages. Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced (except tables and figures) according to the following format:

1. The first page should contain the article's title, author's name and affiliation, complete mailing address, and a suggested running head (abbreviated form of the title).
2. The second page should contain a short abstract of approximately 100 words, a list of keywords and Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes.
3. Footnotes, references, tables, and figures should be placed on separate pages at the end of the manuscript and properly numbered.
4. Figures should be provided in camera-ready format.
5. References in the text and in footnotes should follow the author-date format; for example, (Becker, 1964; Mincer, 1974). References should be typed according to the following formats:
   
   Armendáriz de Aghion, B. and J. Morduch, 2005, The Economics of Microfinance. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
   
   Helpman, E, M. Melitz and S. Yeaple, 2004, Export versus FDI with heterogeneous firms. American Economic Review, 94, pp. 300-16.
   
   Kaminsky, G. and C. M. Reinhart, 2001, Bank lending and contagion: Evidence from the Asian crisis. In: Regional and Global Capital Flows: Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences (eds Ito T. and Krueger A. O.), pp. 73-99. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
   
   NIPSSR (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research), 2004, Child Related Policies in Japan. National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo [online; cited June 2003.] Available from URL: http://www.ipss.go.jp/index-e.html

Papers accepted for publication become copyright of the East Asian Economic Association and Blackwell Publishing, and authors will be asked to sign an Exclusive Licence Form. In signing the copyright form, it is assumed that authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the form, and must sign the form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles annot be published until a signed Exclusive Licence Form has been received.