Financial Markets

The Financial Markets section welcomes high quality original papers on theoretical and empirical issues related to financial markets, including portfolio optimization, asset management, asset pricing and trading, investment, market microstructure and their contributions to the stability and operation of securities markets and financial intermediation. Studies focusing on the contribution of optimal trading, market frictions and information to well-functioning financial markets are especially encouraged. The Financial Markets section is open to publishing new and challenging studies focusing on a variety of topics from information channels and pricing and trading mechanisms to reconciling finance and economic theory to the development of market practice and regulations.