TURNER COLLEGE SPOTLIGHT

Journal of Financial Economic Policy

CSU’s Turner College of Business is home to the editorial offices of a number of academic journals.  One of these is Journal of Financial Economic Policy, which is currently edited by Frank Mixon, a professor of economics and current holder of the Turner College’s Violet and Thomas Buck Chair.  JFEP launched in 2009, and its areas of interest include policy related to bank performance and regulation, financial capital markets, corporate finance and governance, central bank policy, behavioral economics and finance, real estate finance and economics, and a wide variety of other related topics of interest and relevance.  It is currently published by Emerald Publishing in Bingley, England.  The 48-member Editorial Board of JFEP includes Chris Brummer of Georgetown University, Charles Calomiris of Columbia University, and Ross Levine of the University of California – Berkeley, Mark Partridge of Ohio State University, and Lawrence White of New York University, among others.  Currently, the most cited paper in the JFEP is titled “Bank Regulation and Supervision in 180 Countries from 1999 to 2011.”  This study, authored by James Barth of Auburn University, Gerard Caprio of Williams College, and Ross Levine of New York University, quantifies survey information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory agencies, information disclosure requirements, external governance mechanisms, deposit insurance, barriers to entry, and loan provisioning, in order to form indices of key bank regulatory and supervisory policies.  Published in 2013, this study has been cited 1,022 times according to Google Scholar.