Finanzarchiv
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FinanzArchiv is an international academic journal
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 of economics
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 published quarterly by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, Germany.
The journal publishes high quality papers in all fields of public finance, such as taxation, public debt, public goods, public choice, federalism, market failure, social policy and the welfare state
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Overview

FinanzArchiv was first published in 1884, which makes it one of the world's oldest professional journals in economics. In 2006 the traditional title has been complemented by the English sub-title Public Finance Analysis.

Its founder and first editor from 1884 to 1931 was Georg von Schanz, the inventor of the Schanz-Haig-Simons concept of comprehensive income. The list of subsequent editors includes Hans Teschemacher, Fritz Neumark, Norbert Andel, Helga Pollak, Wolfgang Wiegard, Wolfram F. Richter, Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn
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, James R. Hines, Peter Birch Sørensen, and Harry Huizinga.

The current editors of FinanzArchiv are Bernd Genser, University of Konstanz, Jenny Ligthart, Tilburg University, and Alfons J. Weichenrieder, University of Frankfurt.

The journal is well-established in public economics and keeps close relations to the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF)http://www.iipf.org/index.htm. 26 to 30 original scientific papers from various fields in public economics are published each year to serve the international readers. Manuscripts must be in English and are accepted for publication subject to a peer-review process. Online submission is required.

FinanzArchiv is listed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI impact factor 2008: 0.364), in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, in the Journal of Economic Literature (CD and online), in IDEAS and RePEc (IDEAS impact factor 2009: 1.371) , and in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.

For the contents of volumes published after 1999 visit the websites of FinanzArchiv http://www.mohr.de/fa.html or IDEAS/RePEc http://ideas.repec.org/s/mhr/finarc.html.

The contents of all previous volumes of FinanzArchiv starting with volume 1 (1884) to volume 48 (1932) and restarting with volume 1 (1932) to volume 59 (2002/03) are available from DigiZeitschriften http://www.digizeitschriften.de.
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