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AFJ | membership & subscription | Contact | Abstracts Aims and Scope of Journal This first volume of the African Finance Journal was sponsored by Standard Equities and was published at the end of October 1999. Vol 1 Part 1 1999 - PDF The African Finance Journal (AFA) will publish significant new research in finance and will strive to establish a balance between theoretical and empirical studies. The AFA is devoted primarily to the study and promotion of knowledge about finance relevant to development in Africa. It also aims to promote investment and economic integration within the continent. Papers written in any areas of Finance, Accounting and Economics will be considered for publication. The principal criteria for inclusion are a paper's quality and contribution to the field of Finance, Accounting and Economics, without undue regard to its technical content. The target groups are academics, students, corporations, governments, NGOs and other policy makers. The Journal will be sponsored by the African Finance Academy and all AFA members will receive copies of the journal free of charge. The journal will be published three times a year (January, May and September). Subscribers will automatically become members of the African Finance Association. The African Finance Journal is published twice a year and edited at Africagrowth Research, South Africa. It is published jointly by the African Finance Academy (AFA) and Africagrowth Research. The journal publishes significant new research in finance and strive to establish a balance between theoretical and empirical studies. Papers written in any areas of Finance, Accounting and Economics relevant to Africa and other emerging markets, will be considered for publication. The principal criteria for inclusion are a paper's quality and contribution to the field of Finance, Accounting and Economics without undue regard to its technical content. academics, corporations, governments, NGOs, students and other policy makers. The editorial board consists of Dr Nicholas Biekpe as executive editor and 27 well-known academics from all over the world as advisory and associate editors. The first journal was published in 1999 and currently the African Finance Journal appears twice a year. The publication is also hosted on the Business Intelligence Service of I-Net Bridge of Sabinet. Executive
Editor: Menzie D. Chinn Colin Firer Lemma Senbet Campbell Harvey Eon Smit Michael Moore Donal McKillop Kwame A.Q. Aboagye (Univ.
of Ghana) Ghana Joshua Abor (Univ of Ghana) Ghana Charles Adjasi (Univ of Ghana) Ghana Assistant
Editor: (1) Manuscripts should be typewritten using double-spacing throughout, including tables, references, and footnotes. Assemble sections in the following order Title page (Separate Page) (2) Three single-sided copies should be sent to the Executive Editor, African Finance Journal, Africagrowth Research, P.O. Box 3628, Tygervalley, 7536, South Africa. Or One electronic copy in Microsoft
Word Format should be sent to the Assistant Editor: (3) The Title page should include the name(s) of the author(s), and institutional affiliation for each author. It should also include name, address, telephone number and email of the author responsible for correspondence, as well as the name, address of the author to whom requests for reprints should be sent. (4) Each article should include an Abstract of no more than 100 words, beginning on a separate page. The text should also begin on a separate page. The first numbered section should follow the Abstract of the article. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and placed at the bottom of the page on which they are cited. Do not number author affiliations or acknowledgements of support or assistance. (5) Tables and Figures
should be placed on the page on which it is first referred to
or as close as possible to such page and should be numbered sequentially
with Arabic numerals. Each should be designed to fit on a page
without undue compression. Authors may use a “landscape”
page setup for tables. Tables - The table number and heading are displayed above the table, in bold typed and left aligned. Figures - All explanatory material should be included in the legend and not in the figure itself. The figure number and heading are displayed below the figure, in bold typed and left aligned. (6) Headings are numbered
and formatted as follows: (7) References: the Harvard method must be used, namely short references in the text and more detailed references arranged in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript (follow the guidelines below). References in the text: Omit the page numbers if the entire publication is referred to (Cane, 1980); or … according to Cane (1987b). If a quotation is cited, (Abraham, 1985: 2). The list of references should be double-spaced, in unnumbered alphabetical format and should begin on a new page. Hakansson, N. (1979): "A
Characterization of Optimal Multiperiod Portfolio Policies",
in Portfolio Theory, 25 Years After: Essays in Honor of Harry
Markowitz, eds. E. Elton and Gibbons, M. R., Ross, S. A. and Shanken, J. (1989): “A Test of the Efficiency of a Given Portfolio” Econometrica, 57(4), pp.1121-1152. Merton, R. C. (1990): Continuous-Time Finance. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell. Norton, C. (2000): “African Capital Market: The way forward”, Working Paper, the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors assign copyright to the African Finance Association. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning copyright, authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
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