Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence in Emerging Market Finance
Posted on 2025-01-27Modern Finance invites researchers, practitioners, and policymakers worldwide to contribute to a special issue on Artificial Intelligence in Emerging Market Finance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Transformative Potential. This special issue aims to explore the profound impact of AI technologies on financial systems in emerging markets, highlighting cutting-edge innovations, addressing critical challenges, and uncovering the transformative potential of AI in reshaping finance and driving economic growth.
Themes of Interest:
- Artificial Intelligence for Financial Inclusion: Leveraging AI to expand access to financial services, improve microfinance, and enhance credit scoring mechanisms for underserved populations in emerging markets.
- Risk Management and Fraud Detection: Advanced AI solutions for detecting financial fraud, money laundering, and cybersecurity threats, along with enhanced risk assessment tools tailored to the volatile nature of emerging markets.
- AI in Asset Pricing: Deploying AI to develop more accurate asset pricing models, improve market efficiency, and assess risks and returns in under-researched and less liquid financial markets.
- Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading: Optimizing trading strategies and improving liquidity through AI-driven algorithmic trading, with a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities in emerging market economies.
- AI and Regulatory Compliance: Using AI for regulatory monitoring and compliance, addressing ethical concerns, and tackling biases inherent in AI-powered financial models.
- AI in Credit Markets and Lending: Revolutionizing access to credit through AI, reducing default rates, and improving lending practices in informal and under-regulated credit markets.
- Personalized Financial Services: AI-driven innovations in tailored investment advice, wealth management, and enhanced customer engagement through natural language processing and other tools.
- Sustainability and Green Finance: Harnessing AI to identify and finance sustainable projects, track ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics, and promote green finance initiatives.
- Behavioral Insights and Financial Decision-Making: Exploring how AI uncovers behavioral patterns unique to emerging markets and addresses cultural and social influences on financial decision-making.
- Global Trends and Emerging Markets: Examining the interplay between global AI advancements and emerging market finance, with a focus on recovery and resilience following global disruptions.
Why Publish in this Special Issue?
- No Fees: We impose no submission, processing, or publication fees, promoting equitable access to publication opportunities.
- Open Access: Widespread dissemination of your research through an open-access policy.
- Swift Peer Review: Benefit from a swift peer review process; we aim to make the first decision in no longer than 30 days.
Submission Guidelines:
- Manuscript Types: We welcome original research articles, review papers, case studies, and short communications.
- Methodologies: Empirical, theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches, as well as interdisciplinary studies, are encouraged.
- Diverse Voices: In alignment with MF's commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity, we strongly encourage submissions from scholars based in developing regions and those from underrepresented communities globally.
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
To submit your manuscript or to find more details about the submission process, please visit our website: Submission Guidelines. Please indicate the Special Issue submission in the cover letter.
Please circulate this call for papers within your network.