What to Look for When Choosing a Journal
Before submitting your research, evaluate journals on these key criteria:
- Microeconomic scope — individual behaviour, firm decisions, market structure, and mechanism design
- Theoretical and empirical range — formal game theory, experimental economics, and structural microeconometrics
- Open access for reach to applied microeconomists, regulators, and competition authorities
- Fast review for competitive microeconomics research
- Acceptance of mechanism design, market design, and auction theory research
- Labour, health, and education microeconomics research welcomed
Recommended Journals — Cluster 7: Finance, Accounting & Economics
All journals below are published by Keith Publications — open access, peer-reviewed, and indexed for global discoverability.
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Journal of Financial Economics and Management
(JFEM)
Financial economics, corporate finance, investment management, financial markets, monetary policy, and the economics of financial systems and institutions.
Financial Economics Corporate Finance Investment Management Financial Markets -
Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting
(JAFR)
Financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, corporate governance, financial reporting standards, and the intersection of accounting with regulation and public policy.
Financial Accounting Auditing Corporate Governance Financial Reporting -
International Journal of Banking and Financial Services
(IJBFS)
Banking systems, financial services regulation, fintech, digital banking, risk management, financial inclusion, and the stability of global financial institutions.
Banking Systems Financial Services Fintech Risk Management -
Economics and Social Policy Research Journal
(ESPRJ)
Applied economics, development economics, fiscal and monetary policy, social policy evaluation, labour economics, and the economics of welfare, health, and education.
Applied Economics Development Economics Fiscal Policy Social Policy
Fast Publication: All Keith Publications journals complete initial review within 2–5 business days and full peer review within 2–4 weeks. Articles are published online within 5–10 days of acceptance — making us one of the fastest open access publishers in finance, accounting, and economics.
Core Research Areas in Microeconomics
Keith Publications microeconomics journals accept research on: consumer theory — demand analysis, revealed preference, and household expenditure; producer theory — firm cost minimisation, production functions, and supply decisions; market structure — perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and strategic interaction; game theory — Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, auctions, and bargaining; information economics — adverse selection, moral hazard, and signalling; labour economics from a microeconomic perspective — wage bargaining, human capital, and discrimination; health and education microeconomics; environmental microeconomics — externalities, public goods, and environmental valuation; experimental microeconomics — laboratory and field experiments on individual and market behaviour; and platform economics and two-sided markets.
Mechanism Design and Market Design: Microeconomics That Changes the World
Mechanism design and market design are among the most practically impactful areas of microeconomics research. Research by economists like Alvin Roth, Lloyd Shapley, Paul Milgrom, and Robert Wilson has directly shaped the design of kidney donor matching systems, school choice mechanisms, spectrum auctions, and electricity market reforms. Keith Publications welcomes mechanism design and market design research — from theoretical contributions to applied designs for public sector matching problems, auction formats, and regulatory mechanism design — recognising the real-world impact this research can have.
Tips to Maximise Your Acceptance Chances
- Align your topic with the journal's scope — confirm your research fits the journal's finance, accounting, or economics focus area.
- Establish clear research questions — finance and economics editors expect precise, testable hypotheses or well-defined research questions.
- Address endogeneity and identification — be explicit about your causal identification strategy and its limitations.
- Use appropriate data and methodology — match your econometric or quantitative methods to your research question and data structure.
- Follow formatting guidelines exactly — non-compliant manuscripts are often desk-rejected without review.
- State practical and policy implications — explain how your findings inform investors, regulators, policymakers, or practitioners.
- Ensure robust robustness checks — include alternative specifications, subsample analyses, and placebo tests to strengthen your empirical claims.
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