INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Revised 16 Oct. 2023

1. Manuscripts should be written in English, and should be accompanied by a letter of submission
stating that they are original unpublished work, not submitted or to be submitted for considerationelsewhere. The copyrights in the accepted paper shall be assigned exclusively to Hitotsubashi
University in accordance with Hitotsubashi Journal Copyright Policy. The editors do not accept
responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted.
2. Manuscript should have margins of at least one inch on all sides, using double -spacingthroughout. Number each page. The total number of pages should not exceed 40 (including tables,figures, appendices, and references). Please send a single PDF file of the manuscript that includes
references, tables and figures as an e-mail attachment to: hit-journal@ad.hit-u.ac.jp.
3. The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information: (i) the title;(ii) the name(s) and complete affiliation(s) [including e-mail address(es)] of the author(s);(iii) an abstract of not more than 100 words. The abstract will appear at the beginning of thearticle in the Journal and will be used in bibliographic information services provided by
the American Economic Association (EconLit).
4. The first page of the manuscript should also contain at least one classi fication code
according to the Classification System for Journal Articles as used by the Journal of
Economic Literature; in addition, up to five key words should be supplied.
5. Acknowledgements and information on grants received should be given in footnote on thefirst page.
6. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and be numbered consecutively throughout thetext with superscript in Arabic numerals. All graphs and diagrams should be referred to as
figures and should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals. Tables should
be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and typed on separate sheets.
7. Important formulae (displayed) should be numbered consecutively throughout themanuscript as (1), (2), etc. on the right-hand side of the page. Where the derivation of
formulae has been abbreviated, it is of great help to referees if the full derivation can bepresented on a separate sheet (not to be published).
8. The References should include only the most relevant papers. In the text, references topublications should appear as follows: “Samuelson (1950a) reported that …” or “Thisproblem has been a subject in literature before [e.g., Samuelson (1950b, p.360)] .” Theauthor should make sure that there is a strict “one-to-one correspondence” between thenames (years) in the text and those on the list. At the end of the manuscript (after anyappendices), the complete references should be listed as follows:
Ara, K. (1958), “Capital Theory and Economic Growth,” Economic Journal 89, pp.511-527.
Debreu, G. (1959), Theory of Value, New York, John Wiley and Sons.
Fujino, S. (1965), Nihon no Keikijunkan [Japanese Trade Cycles], Tokyo, Keiso Shobo.
Hildenbrand, W. and R. Radner (1979), “Stochastic Stability of Market Adjustment in Disequilibrium,” in: J. Green and J.A. Sheinkman, eds., General Equilibrium, Growth, andTrade: Essays in Honor of Lionel McKenzie, New York, Academic Press, pp.139-149.
Kojima, K. (1958), “Shihon Chikuseki to Kokusai Bungyo [Capital Accumulation and theInternational Division of Labor],” in: Akamatsu Kaname Hakushi Kanreki Kinen Ronshu
Kankokai, ed., Keizaiseisaku to Kokusaiboeki: Akamatsu Kaname Hakushi Kanreki Kinen
Ronshu [Economic Policy and International Trade], pp.443-496.
Masuda, S. (1958), “Chuseishoki Shuwaben no Kizoku Shihai [The Rule of Nobles in Schwaben
in the Early Middle Ages],”Keizaigaku Kenkyu [Hitotsubashi University Research Series:Economics] 2, pp.87-178.
Sumuelson, P. (1950a), “Probability and the Attempts to Measure Utility,” Keizai Kenkyu[Economic Review] 1, pp.167-173.
Sumuelson, P. (1950b), “The Problem of Integrability in Utility Theory,” Economica 17,
pp.355-385.