Advances in Household Finance

CALL FOR PAPERS
Advances in Household Finance

Journal: China Finance Review International
Publisher: EmeraldPublishing
Submission Opens: 1 May 2026
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
Expected Publication: Third quarter of 2027 (online as soon as accepted)

Introduction
Household finance is now a distinct, fast‑growing area alongside asset pricing, corporate finance, and financial intermediation. Advances in data, computation, causal methods, and behavioral economics have expanded the field’s reach. This Special Issue seeks high‑quality theoretical and empirical work on household financial behavior, market design, policy, and financial inclusion, including the role of fintech, demographic change, and household responses to shocks.

Guest Editors
Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 📧 (Haliassos@wiwi.uni‑frankfurt.de)
Weixing Wu, Capital University of Economics and Business, China 📧 (wxwu@cueb.edu.cn)
Pengpeng Yue, Beijing Technology and Business University, China 📧 (yuepengpeng@btbu.edu.cn)

List of Topic Areas

Submissions invited on (but not limited to):

• Saving, consumption, and life‑cycle household decisions

• Investment, portfolio choice, and wealth accumulation

• Housing, mortgages, and household balance sheets

• Consumer credit, debt behavior, and repayment

• Insurance, risk management, and retirement planning

• Financial literacy and household decision‑making

• Behavioral household finance (beliefs, expectations, narratives)

• Fintech, digital lending, payments, and financial inclusion

• Policy intervention, regulation, and household responses to shocks

• International and comparative household finance

Key Deadlines
📅 Submission portal opens: 1 May 2026
⏰ Manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2026

Submission Guidelines
Submissions via ScholarOne Manuscripts; double‑blind review.

• Select “Advances in Household Finance” from the special issue dropdown.

• Original work only; not under consideration elsewhere.
  🌐 Submission Portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cfri
  🌐 Author Guidelines / Journal Homepage: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/cfri
  📧 Editorial Office (submission guidance): cfr@sjtu.edu.cn
  📧 Guest‑editor pre‑submission discussion:

  • Michael Haliassos: Haliassos@wiwi.uni‑frankfurt.de

  • Weixing Wu: wxwu@cueb.edu.cn

  • Pengpeng Yue: yuepengpeng@btbu.edu.cn

About the Journal
China Finance Review International (CFRI), by Emerald Group Publishing and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is a leading finance journal covering Chinese and international markets, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, with a strong focus on empirical and theoretical work in finance.

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