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In the last twenty years mathematical finance has developed independently from economic theory, and largely as a branch of probability theory and stochastic analysis. This has led to important developments e.g. in asset pricing theory, and interest-rate modeling.

This direction of research however can be viewed as somewhat removed from real-world considerations and increasingly many academics in the field agree over the necessity of returning to foundational economic issues.

Mainstream finance on the other hand has often considered interesting economic problems, but finance journals typically pay less attention to the high-level quantitative approach. When quantitative methods useful to economists are developed by mathematicians and published in mathematical journals, they often remain unknown and confined to a very specific readership. More generally, there is a need for bridges between these disciplines.

The aim of this journal is to reconcile these two approaches and to provide the bridging links between mathematics, economics and finance. Typical areas of interest include foundational issues in asset pricing, financial markets equilibrium, insurance models, portfolio management, quantitative risk management, intertemporal economics, uncertainty and information in finance models.

History:
The first Editor-in-Chief was Elyès Jouini (2007), succeeded by Ivar Ekeland (2011) and from 2014, by Ulrich Horst and Frank Riedel jointly.

Editors-in-Chief
  • Ulrich Horst,
  • Frank Riedel
Impact factor
1.6 (2022)
5 year impact factor
1.6 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
8 days
Downloads
63,823 (2023)

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Electronic ISSN
1862-9660
Print ISSN
1862-9679
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  1. ANVUR
  2. Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
  3. BFI List
  4. Baidu
  5. CLOCKSS
  6. CNKI
  7. CNPIEC
  8. Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  9. Dimensions
  10. EBSCO
  11. EconLit
  12. Google Scholar
  13. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  14. Mathematical Reviews
  15. Naver
  16. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  17. Portico
  18. ProQuest
  19. SCImago
  20. SCOPUS
  21. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  22. Social Science Citation Index
  23. TD Net Discovery Service
  24. UGC-CARE List (India)
  25. Wanfang
  26. zbMATH
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