Focus and Scope

ECONOMIST: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis aims to publish high-quality research in the fields of economics and business studies. The journal serves as a platform for academics, researchers, practitioners, and students to exchange ideas and findings that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in these fields. ECONOMIST welcomes original research articles, theoretical and empirical studies, case studies, and review articles addressing a wide range of topics within the fields of economics and business.

The scope of ECONOMIST includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  1. Microeconomics: Analysis of individual economic agents such as households, firms, and industries, focusing on issues such as market behavior, consumer choice, production theory, pricing strategies, and market structures.
  2. Macroeconomics: Examination of aggregate economic phenomena, including economic growth, inflation, unemployment, fiscal and monetary policies, international trade, foreign exchange rates, and economic development.
  3. Applied Economics: Research that applies economic theories and methodologies to real-world problems and policy issues, including areas such as environmental economics, health economics, labor economics, agricultural economics, and urban economics.
  4. Business Economics: Studies related to the economic aspects of business operations, management strategies, organizational behavior, industrial organization, entrepreneurship, innovation, and corporate finance.
  5. Financial Economics: Analysis of financial markets, institutions, and instruments, as well as their impacts on economic outcomes, including studies on asset pricing, risk management, investment analysis, corporate governance, and financial regulation.
  6. International Economics: Examination of international trade, finance, and economic relations among countries, including topics such as globalization, trade policies, multinational corporations, foreign direct investment, and economic integration.
  7. Development Economics: Research on issues related to economic development, poverty alleviation, income distribution, inequality, social welfare, human capital accumulation, and sustainable development.
  8. Econometrics: Application of statistical and mathematical techniques to analyze economic data, test economic theories, and estimate economic relationships, including topics such as time-series analysis, panel data methods, forecasting, and causal inference.
  9. Interdisciplinary Studies: ECONOMIST also encourages interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes studies that integrate insights from economics with other fields, such as sociology, psychology, political science, law, tourism, and other related disciplines.