The Economist’s Forum (Közgazdász Fórum) is a bimonthly scientific journal recognised by the National University Research Council of Romania (CNCSIS).
The editors of the journal are the Hungarian Economist’s Association from Romania (RMKT) and the Hungarian line of studies of the Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. The Economist’s Forum had regular appearance over the past ten years, and is the only Hungarian scientific journal in the field of economics in Romania.
In april 2009 the extended editorial board decided to reduce the frequency of the journal from monthly to bimonthly, for the purpose of quality improvement. Therefore the first three issues in 2009 appeared monthly and other five issues were printed bimonthly.
The journal has hosted numerous theoretical and applied studies by scientists and researchers from Romania and also from abroad. The areas of research covered by the journal are the following:
- macro- and microeconomics
- regional economics
- international economics
- banking and finance
- corporate finance
- accounting and audit
- management and marketing
- applied statistics and econometrics
The Economist’s Forum is a peer-reviewed journal, the articles are reviewed by the members of the advisory board who make one of the following recommendations:
- accepted without modifications
- accepted with modifications
- rejected
Editorial board:
Editor in chief: Nagy Bálint Zsolt
Founding editor: Somai József
Proof-reading, copy-editing: Balázs Bence
Executive management: Muntean Andrea Erzsébet
Editorial director: Colţea Tibor
Advisory board:
Juhász Jácint, PhD, lecturer, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Nagy Ágnes, PhD, associate professor, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Nagy Bálint Zsolt, PhD, lecturer, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Pete István, PhD, associate professor, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Péter György, retired professor, ORADEA, ROMANIA
Somai József, honorary president of R.M.K.T., Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Száz János, PhD, professor, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Török Ádám, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professor, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
Vincze Mária PhD professor, KOLOZSVÁR, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Guide for authors
The Economist’s Forum invites papers presenting the conclusions of theoretical or applied economic studies, scientific debates, or book reviews. The articles can be written in Hungarian or English (for the special issue). The articles should be submitted to one of the following e-mail addresses: balint.nagy@econ.ubbcluj.ro office@rmkt.ro
The text should be between 15 and 20 printed pages, numbered, A4 format, characters Times New Roman 12, single spacing.
The first must contain the title of the article, the author's name, their complete scientific title and affiliation (professional address, phone, e-mail), followed an abstract of 5-10 lines, that should present the main results of the article. The abstract will be followed by 5-7 keywords.
The authors are also required to submit an English and Romanian abstract with keywords in a separate document.
The presentation of bibliographical references:
- In the text the references quotes will appear between brackets, with the name and the publication date, e.g.: (Gyerőffy 1997).
- For two co-authors they will use for example (Black and Scholes, 1973).
- In the case of three or more than three authors, only the first will be mentioned, under the form (Barberis et al., 1998).
- If two references have the same author and the same publication year, they will be differentiated through letters (Fama, 1965a). These letters will also appear in the bibliography. At the end of the article the references will be presented as follows:
Periodicals:
The list of the authors including the first name initial, the year of publication, the title of the article, the name of the periodical in italics without abbreviations, the number of the volume and the number of pages.
Books:
The list of authors including the first name initial and the year of publication, the title of the book in italics without abbreviations, the publishing house, the place of publication.