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The Economics and Finance Letters (EFL) is dedicated to the publication of papers in all aspects of economics and finance. The following areas are encouraged for submission:

Economic development: development policy; foreign aid; formal and informal economy; industrial policy; industrialization; institutions and development; poverty; role of international organizations; rural and regional studies; urban; welfare economics. Financial economics: central banks and their policies;  currencies; financial crises; financial econometrics; financial engineering; financial forecasting; financial intermediation; financial markets and their functioning; financial planning during pandemic; inflation; interest rates; monetary and macro-financial issues; monetary systems; monetary theory and policy;  payment systems; regulation, and insurance to corporate finance; risk management of financial institutions;  role of finance in economic development. Growth and natural resources: climate change; empirical growth studies; energy; environment; growth models; institutions and growth; intellectual property rights; primary markets; productivity; renewable resources; resource policies; technological change. Health economics: health and economic development; health and inequality; health and productivity; health behaviour; health care markets; health insurance; health policy; pandemics; public health systems; regulation in health markets.  International trade regional economics:  exchange rate determination; exchange rate systems; International economic; arrangements; international factor movement; migration; regional economic activity; regional economic integration; trade theory and policy; urban and rural economics.  Labour and education economics:  education and economic development;  education and inequality; education policies and systems; employment; human capital labour productivity; labour force; labour markets; retirement policies; skills and return on education;  wages.  Macroeconomic economic theory and policy:  business cycle fluctuations; consumption; fiscal and other fields of economic policies;  income distribution; institutions and the macroeconomy;  investment;  macroeconomic forecasting; macroeconomic modelling;  national accounting;  production;  saving; unemployment.

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