Focus and Scope

International Journal of Financial and Investment  Studies (IJFIS) e-ISSN: 2745-3952 is a peer-reviewed journal  that aims at the dissemination and advancement of research in the areas of economics and finance with a specific focus on financials and investments. The aim of the Journal is to provide a platform to researchers, practitioners, academicians, and professionals associated with the field of financials and investments. To encourage and promote research across a wide breadth of areas pertaining to financials and investments. Preference will be given to comparative studies that take global and regional perspectives as well as comprehensive single country studies that address critical policy issues and have significant global and regional implications.

IJFIS invites submissions of original, empirical, and theoretical papers as well as case studies and book reviews covering diverse areas of financials and investments that are listed (but not limited to) as follows:
• Analysis and design of trading mechanisms;
• Optimal order placement strategies in capital market;
• The role of information in securities markets/investments
• Behaviour of asset prices in financial sectors;
• Capital, security, and derivatives markets; securities and derivatives trading and pricing (stocks, bonds,        currencies, commodities);
• Corporate governance;
• Corporate restructuring: Share buybacks, delisting, mergers, and acquisitions;
• Credit markets and leverage buy outs;
• Investment and portfolio management;
• Market efficiency;
• Market mechanisms;
• New issues market and merchant banking;
• Normative theory of financial management;
• Performance and regulations of mutual funds;
• Private placements: preferential issues, qualified institutions placements;
• Real estate investment trusts;
• Securities and Exchange Board of Indonesia: rules and regulations;
• Theories of market equilibrium;
• Valuation of bonds, convertible debentures, and market for debt;
• Valuation of financial and real assets;
• Valuation of stocks and functioning of the stock markets;
• Valuation, trading, hedging, investing, and pricing issues in global stock, bond, commodity, currency, and derivative markets;
• Studies of market theory, regulation, and investment management;