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Introduction
Household finance has become an increasingly important and well-established field within financial economics. Recent research shows that the field has expanded rapidly since the early twenty-first century, driven by advances in computational methods, the growing availability of large-scale administrative datasets, improved approaches to causal inference, and new insights from behavioral economics. At the same time, household finance is now widely recognized as a distinct area of inquiry, alongside asset pricing, corporate finance, and financial intermediation.
The importance of this field has grown further in response to rising household debt, housing market risks, financial inequality, demographic change, financial technology, and the increasing complexity of consumer financial products. Household finance concerns not only individual decision-making, but also market design, consumer financial protection, financial inclusion, and the interactions between household behavior and broader economic outcomes.
This special issue aims to provide a focused platform for high-quality theoretical and empirical research on household finance. We welcome contributions that deepen our understanding of household financial behavior, institutional design, and policy interventions, as well as studies that explore the historical evolution, current frontiers, and future directions of household finance research.
List of Topic Areas
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Saving, consumption, and life-cycle household decisions
- Investment, portfolio choice, and wealth accumulation
- Housing, mortgages, and household balance sheets
- Consumer credit, debt behavior, and repayment
Insurance, risk management, and retirement planning - Financial literacy and household decision-making
- Behavioral household finance, including beliefs, expectations, and narratives
- Fintech, digital lending, payments, and financial inclusion
- Policy intervention, regulation, and household responses to shocks
- International and comparative household finance.
Guest Editors
Michael Haliassos, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Weixing Wu, Capital University of Economics and Business, China
Pengpeng Yue, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
Submissions Information
All submissions will undergo the same strict double-blind peer-review process applied to the journal. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted). The special issue is expected to be published in the third quarter of 2027.
To submit a manuscript, please register and submit your paper online at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cfri. When submitting, please choose the Special Issue entitled “Advances in Household Finance”. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Journal Homepage.
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The submission portal opens on July 1st, 2026.
The deadline for submissions is December 31st, 2026.
China Finance Review International is a flagship academic journal covering both Chinese and international financial markets. It is founded by the Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of Asia's top universities. As a flagship finance journal indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, CFRI currently has a 2024 Impact Factor of 7.6, a 2024 CiteScore of 16.3, and a 2025 CiteScore Tracker of 19.8. We greatly appreciate your support for the journal and hope to have the privilege of publishing your work in CFRI.
Should you wish to discuss your paper before submission, please do not hesitate to reach out to the guest editors at their respective email addresses: Professor Michael Haliassos (Email: Haliassos@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de), Professor Weixing Wu (Email: wxwu@cueb.edu.cn) and Professor Pengpeng Yue (Email: yuepengpeng@btbu.edu.cn).
For guidance on the submission process, kindly contact the CFRI Editorial Office at Shanghai Jiao Tong University via email at cfr@sjtu.edu.cn.
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