Market Mechanisms Journal, focusing on market dynamics, regulation, and competition.

The mission of Market Mechanisms Journal is to stimulate reflection on the role of market mechanisms in economic development, governance, and institutional regulation. The journal welcomes a wide range of topics organized around the following axes:

• Market functioning and efficiency: studies on price formation, resource allocation, information asymmetries, and market failures; analysis of competitive and non-competitive markets, externalities, and adjustment mechanisms.
• Regulatory policies and competition: antitrust regimes, competition law, financial market supervision, multi-level governance, industrial and trade policies; role of regulators in correcting market imperfections.
• Finance and financial markets: stock exchanges, traditional and derivative financial instruments, international financial integration, banking stability, financial crises, technological innovation (fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrencies), rating agencies, and bond markets.
• Public–private partnerships (PPPs): contractual governance models, risk- and benefit-sharing mechanisms, monitoring and evaluation of PPP effectiveness in infrastructure, education, and health, and their contribution to organizational resilience.
• Emerging and developing markets: institutional and organizational dynamics in transition economies, integration into global value chains, challenges related to inequality, SME financing, and inclusive growth.
• Behavioral and institutional economics: impact of cognitive biases, social norms, and institutional structures on market functioning; economic experiments, neo-institutionalist approaches, and analytical frameworks inspired by economic psychology.
• Sustainability and green innovation: linkages between markets and energy transition, climate policies, circular economy, corporate social responsibility, sustainable finance, and green investments.
• Digital economy and digital markets: role of digital platforms, artificial intelligence, big data, e-commerce, collaborative economy; regulation of technological monopolies and new forms of competition in the digital economy.
• Innovation, competitiveness, and territories: dynamics of clusters and industrial districts, role of innovation networks, business competitiveness in a globalized context, interaction between organizational innovation and public policies.
• International and interdisciplinary comparisons: cross-regional studies comparing market mechanisms in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; openness to contributions from neighboring disciplines such as law, political science, sociology, and management.

Open Access Statement

The journal follows a full open access policy. All articles are immediately accessible to the scientific community and the general public without subscription or reading fees. This policy is guided by three core objectives:

• Expanding knowledge dissemination by removing financial barriers for readers.
• Increasing author visibility by reaching a global audience that includes scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
• Contributing to open science by facilitating the reuse and dissemination of research for academic, educational, and societal purposes.

Published articles are archived in digital libraries and open databases, ensuring their long-term preservation, traceability, and accessibility.

Publication Ethics

Market Mechanisms Journal adheres to a strict publication ethics policy, inspired by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

• For authors: obligation to submit only original work, properly cite all sources, avoid simultaneous submissions to multiple journals, and declare any financial or institutional conflicts of interest.
• For reviewers: provide objective, constructive, and timely feedback; report any suspected similarity or ethical problem in a manuscript; and maintain strict confidentiality throughout the review process.
• For editors: ensure process transparency, make impartial decisions solely based on scientific quality, and publish corrections or retractions in cases of error or identified misconduct.

Any misconduct—including plagiarism, data manipulation or falsification, self-plagiarism, or redundant publication—results in sanctions ranging from manuscript rejection to future submission bans, or even retraction of already published articles.