4.  The first page of manuscript should contain the following information: (i) the title; (ii) name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s); (iii) and abstract of no more than 150 words; and (iv) a footnote which gives the name and present address of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. And the whole manuscript should be limited in no more than 20,000 words, including the abstracts, tables and figures.

  5.  Important formulae (displayed) should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), etc. on the right side of the page. Where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to references if the full derivation can be presented on a separate sheet (not to be published).

  6.  Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and be numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals.

  7.  The References should include only the most relevant papers. In the text, references to publications should appear as follow:“Fama (1976) reported that...” or “This problem has been a subject in literature before [e.g., Fama (1976, P.102)]”. The author should make sure that there is a strict “one-to-one correspondence” between the names (years) in the text and those on the list. At the end of the manuscript (after any appendices), the complete references should be listed as:

         For periodicals

         Lucus, D. and R.L. McDonald, 1992, Bank Financing and Investment Decisions with

         Asymmetric Information about Loan Quality, RAND Journal of Economics, 23, 1,

         86-105.

         For monographs

         Cox, J.C. and M., Rubinstein, 1985, Options Market, Englewood Cliffs,

         NJ: Prentice-Hall.

         For contributions to collective works

         Choi, J. and J. Doukas, 1998, Financial and Investment Issues in Emerging

         Capital Markets, in Choi, J. and John Doukas eds., Emerging Capital Markets,

         CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.

          *Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.

  8.  Illustrations should be provided in quadruplicate (1 original drawn in black ink on white paper +3 photocopies). Care should be taken that lettering and symbols are of a comparable size. The drawings should not be inserted in the text and should be marked on the back with figure numbers, titles of paper, and name of author. All graphs and diagrams should be referred to as figures and should be numbered consecutively in the text in arabic numerals. Graph paper should be ruled in blue and grid lines to be shown should be inked black. Illustrations of insufficient quality that have to be redrawn by the publisher will be charged to the author.

   9.  All unessential tables should be eliminated from the manuscript. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in arabic numerals and typed on separated sheets

 10. Authors of accepted manuscripts must submit their work on 3.5" disks. Word 2000 or Scientific Word is  preferable.

 11. All manuscripts which do not conform to the above instructions may be returned for the necessary revision before publication.

 12. Page proofs and corrections will be sent to the authors.  The 25 reprints of each paper will be charged  US$ 30.

 13. The Journal will be published in Mar., July and Nov., 3 issues per year, and will include one special issue.

  Ehrenberg, A.S.C., 1972, Repeat-Buying: Theory and Applications, Amsterdam:

  North-Holland, 33-35.

  Lucus, D. and R.L. McDonald, 1992, Bank Financing and Investment Decisions with