About the Repository

The Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) is an initiative by economists of the RePEc network from different countries and runs under the responsibility of the

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History

The story behind MPRA is told here: http://blog.repec.org/2009/08/27/mpra-the-munich-personal-repec-archive/

Editors

The approval of submissions will be taken over by different editors, depending on the language the submission is written in.

English:	Simplice Anutechia Asongu, University of Liège, Belgique Nuno Crespo, ISCTE Business School, Lisbon, Portugal Fernando Estrada, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Alexia Gaudeul, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Alexander Harin, Modern University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia Venus Khim-Sen Liew, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Eduard Vasilev Marinov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Eniel Ninka, Universiteti Europian i Tiranës, Tirana, Albania Nima Nasrollahi Shahri, University of Dundee, UK Patricio Sánchez-Fernández , University of Vigo, Spain
French:	Walid Hichri, Université Lumière Lyon II, France Mehrdad Vahabi, Université de Paris VIII., France Christian Zimmermann, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA
Spanish:	José Alberto Molina, University of Zaragoza, Spain Lourenço Paz, Syracuse University, USA
Portuguese:	Nuno Crespo, ISCTE Business School, Lisbon, Portugal Pedro Valls, Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Brazil
Arab:	Nasri Harb, American University of Technology, Byblos, Lebanon Walid Hichri, Université Lumière Lyon II, France
Azerbaijani:	Salman Huseynov, Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan
Bulgarian:	Eduard Vasilev Marinov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Bengali:	M. Ali Ashraf, United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA
Czech:	Martin Berka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Oldřich Kýn, Boston University, USA
Danish:	Sune Karlsson, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
German:	Christian Zimmermann, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, USA
Greek:	Evangelos Christou, International Hellenic University, Greece
Persian:	Nima Nasrollahi Shahri, University of Dundee, UK Mehrdad Vahabi, Université de Paris VIII., France
Finnish:	Pekka Ilmakunnas, Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
Hebrew:	Daniel Gottlieb, National Insurance Institute, Government of Israel
Hindi:	Ganeswar Sahoo, University of Trento, Italy
Croatian:	Srecko Goic, University of Split, Croatia
Hungarian:	László Áron Kóczy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Indonesian:	Rayenda Khresna Brahmana, University of Bahrain
Icelandic:	Friðrik Már Baldursson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Italian:	Marco Novarese, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italia Giovanni Moricca, Università di Bologna, Italia
Japanese:	Daichi Shirai, The Canon Institute for Global Studies, Japan
Georgian:	Alexi Gugushvili, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Korean:	Kwang Soo Cheong, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Lithuanian:	Igor Vetlov, Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
Latvian:	Valerijs Skribans, Rīgas Tehniskā Universitāte, Latvia
Macedonian:	Hyrije Abazi-Alili, South East European University, Tetovo, Republic of Macedonia
Malayalam:	Kavita Iyengar, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
Marathi:	Prakash G. Apte, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
Malay:	Venus Khim-Sen Liew, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Nepali:	Govinda Koirala, University of Rio Grande, Ohio, USA
Norwegian:	Sune Karlsson, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
Oriya:	Praveen Mohanty, India Development Foundation, Gurgaon, India
Polish:	Witold Kwasnicki, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Romanian:	Laura Ştefănescu, Universitatea Spiru Haret, Romania
Russian:	Alexander Harin, Modern University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia Ararat Osipian, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Slovak:	Martin Berka, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Oldřich Kýn, Boston University, USA
Albanian:	Eniel Ninka, Universiteti Europian i Tiranës, Tirana, Albania
Serbian:	Srecko Goic, University of Split, Croatia
Swedish:	Sune Karlsson, Örebro Universitet, Sweden
Tamil:	Kumaraswamy Vela Velupillai, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Thai:	Supachet Chansarn, Bangkok University, Thailand
Turkish:	Aysegul Eruygur, Çankaya Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey
Ukrainian:	Ararat Osipian, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Urdu:	Ali Cheema, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Vietnamese:	Anh Ngoc Nguyen, Development and Policies Research Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
Chinese:	Philip L.H. Yu, University of Hong Kong, China

General Editor

Joachim Winter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Editorial Assistance

Veronika Reinertshofer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Editorial Guidelines

The paper should be of academic nature.
The topic should relate to economics, including the contiguous historical, social, and behavioral sciences and statistical as well as mathematical methods related to economics.
Advertisements or surveys of contents of some other publication are not accepted, but review articles are.
The paper must be complete and downloadable. Abstracts without a downloadable paper are not accepted.
Editors check submissions according to these guidelines as well as technical aspects, mainly related to the prevention of copyright violations. No further refereeing is done.