Journal of EFFECTUS University
(1) ABOUT FIP
FIP – Financije i pravo scientific journal of Effectus University of Applied Sciences has the main objective to bring finance and law together in a scientific and professional discourse. FIP aims to bringing closer finance and law in a multidisciplinary environment, at the same time not to limit itself to just one interdisciplinary overlap. This is why FIP tries to create a stimulating environment which will offer possibility for a wide variety of research to be published, from mathematically structured models to examples of court practice. Papers from wide variety of topics covering all aspects of economics and law are welcome. Interdisciplinary papers which include topics from law and economics combined with other sciences are also welcome.
FIP publishes original scientific papers, preliminary communications, review papers and professional papers. The journal is also open for publication of court case reviews, especially if they concern court cases where finance is a relevant issue. The editors will also consider book reviews, if the book covers a topic in finance or law. Reviews of books with other topics will be scrutinized much more closely and are left to the decision of Editor in chief.
In order for an article to be considered for a publication, the article has to be an original work and at the time of submission it cannot be submitted to any other publication.
The journal is published in electronic form twice a year, usually in June and December, and has been published since 2013. ISSN number: 1849-4803.
The publisher of FIP is Effectus University of Applied Sciences. The publisher retains the copyrights for all published articles. The publisher does not charge a publishing fee.
(2) OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT
Journal FIP – Financije I pravo is an Open Access journal. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, redistribute, print, search and link to material, and alter, transform, or build upon the material, or use them for any other lawful purpose as long as they attribute the source in an appropriate manner according to the CC BY licence.
(3) ETHICAL GUIDELINES
The journal upholds the legal provisions of the Republic of Croatia in relation to with the copyright and publishing rights while adhering to the stated policies on open access, licensing and archiving, as well as to the generally accepted ethical and formal rules on academic writing. Journal’s ethics principles are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers:
(4) AUTHORS GUIDELINES:
General information
All of the manuscripts should be mailed to irukavina@effectus.com.hr with an e-mail subject ”publication in FIP”. Once FIP receives the paper, the author will be notified about the reception of the paper. The notification of the reception of the paper will contain information if the paper is considered a desk reject or will it be sent to a review. The review process usually takes 4 – 8 weeks. After the review process is completed, the author will receive the information regarding the status of the paper. The status of the paper can be: acceptable for publication, acceptable for publication with minor changes, revise and resubmit, not acceptable for publication. Regardless of the decision the author will receive the review reports of the paper.
Once the paper has been accepted for publication the author will receive in what volume and issue the paper will be published and an approximate publication date.
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Technical specifications
Papers are accepted in Croatian or English.
First page of the paper should contain: title, abstract, at least three keywords, at least three JEL classification codes (http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html), names of authors and professional affiliations of the authors. Also, a corresponding author should be clearly noted. Papers should be written in Microsoft Word .docx or .doc format, in Times New Roman, font size 12, line spacing 1.5. The margins should be 2,5 cm. Authors should limit their papers to 35 pages of text (tables, graphs, references included) given the above formatting specifications.
For the simplicity of publication tables should be formatted as text, not as pictures. During the process of publication, it is possible for the editors to request the original data in order to create graphs and tables in the final print version of the journal. Tables and graphs should be a part of the document and not in a separate document. All tables and graphs should be put within the text. Complex model simulation can be put at the end of the paper. If graphs and figures are placed at the end of the paper, they should be placed after bibliography. When explaining a certain table and/or graph from the paper, the number of the table and/or graph must be indicated, e.g. In table 1 it is notable that… (avoid using “above”, “below”, etc.).
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References
The list of references, cited alphabetically by author surname, is placed at the end of the paper. The references should be cited according to the Harvard Style of Referencing, available at: http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_referencing.htm
References should be cited according to the template:
Book with one author
Friedman, M. (1957) A Theory of the Consumption Function, 1957. Princeton Univer-sity Press
Book with two authors
Adda, J. and Cooper, R. (2003) Dynamic Programming: Theory and Macroeconomic Applications, MIT Press
Book with three or more authors
Lucas, R., Stokey, N. and Prescott, E. (1989) Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press.
Book by same author in the same year
Hansen, L. P and Sargent, T. (2005a). ‘Certainty Equivalence’ and ‘Model Uncertainty’. Models and Monetary Policy: Research in the Tradition of Dale Henderson, Richard Por-ter, and Peter Tinsley. Editors Faust, J., Orphanides, A. & Reifschneider D. Board of Governors Federal Reserve System 2005.
Hansen, L. P and Sargent, T. (2005b). Robust Estimation and Control under Commit-ment. Journal of Economic Theory 124(2) 248–301.
Book with an editor
Faust, J., Orphanides, A. and Reifschneider D. (ed.) (2005) Models and Monetary Policy: Research in the Tradition of Dale Henderson, Richard Porter, and Peter Tinsley. Board of Governors Federal Reserve System.
Chapter in a book
Ball, L. and Sheridan, N. (2005) Does Inflation Targeting Matter?, in Bernanke, B. and Woodford M. (ed.) The Inflation Targeting Debate, University of Chicago Press
Journal article with both volume and issue number
Aghion, P., Bacchetta, P., Rancière, R. and Rogoff, K (2009) Exchange rate volatility and productivity growth: The role of financial development. Journal of Monetary Economics vol. 56, no 4, pages 494-513
Government publications
Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), (2001) Skills for life: The national strategy for improving adult literacy and numeracy skills, Nottingham: DfEE Publications.
Conference papers
Cota, B., Bahovec V. and Erjavec, N. (2005) ‘The Analysis of Croatian Export Functions: Evidence Based on Exchange Rate Volatility’ Proceedings of the 10th International Con-ference on Operational Research – KOI 2004 Osijek, University of Osijek, Department of Mathematics; Croatian Operational Research Society, pages 213-222.
Newspaper articles
Cumming, F. (1999) ‘Tax-free savings push’, Sunday Mail, 4 April, p. 1.
Electronic sources:
E-books and pdfs
Croatian national bank, 2013. Bulletin 1999 [pdf] Available at: < http://www.hnb.hr/ publikac/bilten/arhiv/bilten-199/ebilt199.pdf> [Accessed 20 January 2014].
Government publications
Ministry of science, education and sports, (2013) National strategic development plan, Za-greb: MSED Publications.
Legal acts
Local and Regional Self-Government Act, Narodne novine br. 33/01, 60/01, 106/03, 129/05, 109/07, 125/08, 36/09
(5) EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-chief
Asst. prof. Ivana Rukavina, Ph. D.
Editors
Prof. dr. sc. Đuro Horvat, Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Prof. dr. sc. Petar Veić, Faculty of Law Rijeka, Croatia
Izv. prof. dr. sc. Goran Klepac, Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Izv. prof. dr. sc. Leo Mršić, Algebra Bernays University, Croatia
Doc. dr. sc. Aljoša Šestanović, Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Dr. sc. Danko Špoljarić, Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Dr. sc. Duška Šarin, Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Dr. sc. Petar-Pierre Matek, Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Ksenija Klasić, K&K Insurance Brokers ltd., Effectus – University of Applied Sciences, Croatia
Editorial board
Ivo Andrijanić, Libertas International University, Croatia
Živka Deleva, Comenius University, Faculty of Social and Economics Sciences, Slovakia
Emilie Frankova, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Vladimir Gligorov, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Austria
Zuzana Hubinkova, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Elena Lisa, Comenius University, Faculty of Social and Economis Sciences, Slovakia
Silvia Mihalikova, Comenius University, Faculty of Social and Economis Sciences, Slovakia
Vladimir Mlynarovič, Comenius University, Faculty of Social and Economis Sciences, Slovakia
Artur Modrzejewski, University of Bialystok, Faculty of Law, Poland
Agnieszka Piekutowska, University of Bialystok, Faculty of Law, Poland Krysztof Prokop, University of Bialystok, Faculty of Law, Poland
Mirjana Radović-Marković, Institute of Economic Sciences, Republic of Serbia
Halina Sierocka, University of Bialystok, Faculty of Law, Poland
Martin Šikyr, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Tatiana Tokolyvova, University College of International and Public Relations Prague, branch Bratislava, Slovakia
Peter Jambrek, Nova Univerza, Slovenia
Angelo Viglianisi Ferraro, Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
(6) CONTACT
Publisher
EFFECTUS University of Applied Sciences
Trg J. F. Kennedya 2
10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Editor-in-chief
Doc. dr. sc. Ivana Rukavina
e-mail: irukavina@effectus.com.hr
tel: +385 (1) 611 77 77
fax: +385 (1) 617 70 22