Financial Development and Economic Growth

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for the Special Issue on “Financial Development and Economic Growth” for the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

Financial development is a pivotal part of economic development and growth. Financial system is comprised of various types of financial institutions, and these institutions potentially contribute to the expansion of financial services and financial development. Financial development can directly or indirectly influence economic growth. Various measures of financial development have been proposed.

This issue welcomes studies on financial development viz. economic activities and the potential of financial development to enhance economic growth. The issue aims to attract papers that examine the role of financial development at macro or micro levels. Studies can consider the conventional or contemporary measures of financial development, can be country-specific or region-based, can examine the direct or indirect contributions of financial development, and can strives towards proposing sound strategies to make financial system growth-enhancing. In this regard, papers submitted should maintain a good balance between the appreciation of relevant existing literature, the appropriateness of methodology and analysis leading to result-based policy implications, and the efforts to make some novel contributions in the field of study.

Prof. Dr. Peter J. Stauvermann
Dr. Ronald Ravinesh Kumar
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Risk and Financial Management is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.