𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦

𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹:
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿:
Taylor & Francis Group

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
31 December 2026

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

Households play a central role in modern financial systems. Decisions regarding consumption, borrowing, entrepreneurship, migration, education, and lifestyle choices ultimately influence financial markets through direct and indirect investment activities. Consequently, households have emerged as the “representative agent” in contemporary microfinance theory and practice.

In recent years, household finance has evolved into a dynamic interdisciplinary field that integrates insights from economics, finance, sociology, psychology, behavioural science, and data science. Household decision-making processes are inherently complex, interdependent, and heterogeneous, creating new challenges and opportunities for both theoretical and empirical research.

This Special Issue, Powering Household Portfolio: Digital Finance, Demographics, and Decisions, focuses on three transformative forces reshaping household finance globally:

• Digital finance, which is lowering barriers to financial participation and enabling personalized financial services.
• Demographic changes, including population ageing, evolving family structures, and increasing inequality, which are altering household risk profiles and long-term planning.
• Household decisions, reflecting behavioural and psychological dimensions of financial choices that influence market dynamics and macroeconomic outcomes.

The Special Issue particularly encourages research using high-quality micro-level datasets to examine how household-level decisions shape financial markets and the broader economy.

𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Digitalization and household finance
• Demographics and household finance
• Sophisticated decision-making and household finance
• Green assets and household finance
• Household financial fragility
• New measurements of household behaviour
• Structural analysis of household behaviour
• Machine learning and household behaviour
• Climate risk, environmental economics, and household decision-making

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

A themed international conference associated with this Special Issue will be held at the Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China, during the second half of 2026. Selected conference papers will be invited for submission to this Special Issue of Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.

𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀

• Weixing Wu, Capital University of Economics and Business
• Stephan Siegel, Washington University
• Paresh Kumar Narayan, Monash University

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀

• Manuscripts submitted to the conference or journal system must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
• All submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process.
• Manuscripts should be written in clear English and follow the journal's formatting requirements.
• Authors submitting after the conference should indicate that their manuscript is intended for the Special Issue on Powering Household Portfolio: Digital Finance, Demographics, and Decisions.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

For inquiries regarding this Special Issue, authors may contact the School of Finance, Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB).

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade publishes high-quality research on financial markets, international trade, economic development, and emerging market dynamics. The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for advancing theoretical and empirical understanding of contemporary issues in finance and economics.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

Weixing Wu, Capital University of Economics and Business
Zhichao Yin, Capital University of Economics and Business
Susan Sunila Sharma, Deakin University

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 — 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

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