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Series Editors:
Richard Zerbe, Jr.
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs,
University of Washington
zerbe@u.washington.edu
206-616-5470

John B. Kirkwood
Assistant Professor, Seattle University School of Law
kirkwoj@seattleu.edu
206-398-4065

Guidelines for Submissions to the Journal

1. Papers must be in English.
   
   
2. We ask authors to initially provide an electronic copy of their manuscript. A hard copy of the final version will be required at a later date. Electronic manuscripts prepared with Microsoft Word (for Macintosh or Windows) and Wordperfect (for Macintosh or Windows) are strongly preferred but we can work with many computer systems and formats.
   
   
3. All pages of the manuscript should be numbered consecutively. Titles and subtitles should be short. References, tables, and legends for the figures should be printed on separate pages.
   
   
4. The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information: (i) the title; (ii) the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s); (iii) an abstract of not more than 100 words. A footnote on the same sheet should give the name, address, and telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author [as well as an e-mail address].
   
   
5. The first page of the manuscript should also contain at least one classification code according to the Classification System for Articles as used by the Journal of Economic Literature; in addition, up to five key words should be supplied.
   
   
6. Acknowledgements and information on grants received can be given in a first footnote, which should not be included in the consecutive numbering of footnotes.
   
   
7. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals.
   
   
8. Displayed formulae should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), etc. against the right-hand margin of the page. In cases where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to the referees if the full derivation can be presented on a separate sheet (not to be published).
   
   
9. References to publications should be as follows:
   
   'Smith (1992) reported that...' of 'This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969)'.
   
   The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list.
   
   The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be double spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name. References should appear as follows:
   
   For monographs
   Hawawini, G., Swary, I., 1990. Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Banking Industry: Evidence from the Capital Markets. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
   
   For contributions to collective works
   Brunner, K., Meltzer, A.H., 1990. Money supply, in: Friedman, B.M., Hahn, F.H. (Eds.), Handbook of Monetary Economics, Vol. 1. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 357--396.
   
   For periodicals
   Griffiths, W., Judge, G., 1992. Testing and estimating location vectors when the error covariance matrix is unknown. Journal of Econometrics 54, 121--138.
   
   Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.
   
   
10. Graphics and illustrations should be submitted on a separate diskette or other media format (we can also accept ZIP disks and CD-ROMs). As well as submitting your artwork electronically, please also include Camera Ready Copy for all your artwork, graphs and figures. To make sure that we can use your artwork, please check the web site including the "Dos and Don'ts" and the "Hints and Tips" sections (the "i" symbol indicates more information).
    
    
11. Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and printed on separate sheets.
    
    
12. When submitting a final version, please print your copy of the manuscript on one side of A4 (US or European). The hard copy and the electronic copy need to be identical. Please ensure that you print the hard copy from the computer file immediately before you save it to disk. Submitting an electronic manuscript with the hard copy, i.e., on disk with accompanying manuscript, is encouraged. Please use a new and correctly formatted disk and label this with your name; also specify the software and hardware used as well as the title of the file to be processed.
    
    

Any manuscript which does not conform to the above instructions may be returned for the necessary revision before publication.

Page proofs will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author in PDF. Proofs should be corrected carefully; the responsibility for detecting errors lies with the author. Corrections should be restricted to instances in which the proof is at variance with the manuscript. No deviations from the version accepted by the Editors are permissible without the prior and explicit approval by the Editors; these alterations will be charged. A copy of the volume will be supplied to each Author upon publication of the book.

For further information regarding guidelines for authors, please check the publisher's web site.
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