%0 Journal Article %T The Journal of Risk and Financial Management in Open Access %A Michael McAleer %J Journal of Risk and Financial Management %D 2013 %R 10.3390/jrfm6010001 %X Financial economics and econometrics have advanced rapidly in recent years, in terms of coverage of topics, the creation of new data sources, the availability of existing high frequency and ultra-high frequency tick data, the growing importance of international financial analysis, the technicality of research topics, and the number of papers and journals publishing such theoretical and practical research. %U http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/6/1/1