Journal of Corporate Finance Research (JCFR, ISSN: 2073-0438) was established in 2007. It is founded by the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) and Irina Ivashkovskaya (Chief Editor). The journal is included in Web of Science Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). 

JCFR is an open access scientific journal with a double-blind peer review system. Its aim is to publish high quality and well-written papers that develop theoretical concepts, empirical tests and research by case studies in corporate finance. JCFR targets scholars from both academia and business community all over the world. Our primary field of interest lies within corporate finance practices in emerging economies and markets. At the same time, our authors are not only scholars from emerging countries, but from all over the world whose research is considering emerging economies.

Journal promotes corporate finance as a new field of research and teaching in Russia, including:

  • the application of the principles of financial economics for the analysis and modeling of sets of financial decisions of a company and their role in creating the value of a company
  • analysis and modeling of the behavior of owners, boards of directors and identifying the role of their incentives in creating firm value
  • analysis of patterns of financial architecture of firms and corporate control
  • creation of a collection of reviews related to the most promising areas of development of the theory of corporate finance
  • focus on emerging capital markets

Our journal is primarily interested in scientific works that apply:

  • new technologies for working with data (machine learning, big data, etc)
  • concepts of corporate finance for the study of financial and strategic decisions of family and entrepreneurial firms
  • concepts of corporate finance for the study of financial and strategic decisions of banks, investment funds, insurance companies
  • studies of the impact of non-financial information, intellectual capital on risks, the results of companies in various sectors of the economy, including the financial sector
  • financial decisions of knowledge intensive firms
  • behavioral anomalies of top management, board members, investors, influence on decisions and efficiency

Types of Journal Articles

New research
Here we publish articles focusing in analyzing and empirical testing of the hypotheses directed on an explanation of a complex of financial decisions of the companies (about capital structure, models and methods of cost of capital estimation, about a company exit on the capital markets, venture investments, about investments into material, non-material and financial assets, about mergers and acquisitions, buy-back deals, business re-structuring and financially unstable companies, about cash flows to investors, about corporate governance, about mechanisms of the internal capital market).

Discussions
In this part we place the theoretical articles bringing new statements of theoretical problems, new approaches to the decision of theoretical and methodological problems of corporate finance.

Corporate financial analytics
Here we publish articles about applications of corporate finance theory. Corporate finance models, results of their researches in an applied corporate financial analytics and in strategic managerial decisions. This part urged to form a collection of articles about the best samples and experience of adaptation of modern knowledge in the field of the corporate finance to the realities of financial markets conditions.

Methods
Here we publish papers about new methods with applications in corporate finance and related fields.