摘要:The section “Economics and Finance” brings together a collection of papers that cover a variety oftopics both in the areas of economics and finance. In particular we will showcase some of the publishedpapers in this section that best capture the quality and the importance of these contributions as theycover many research areas of interest such as cryptocurrencies, primary and secondary corporate bondmarkets, new methods for modeling financial transactions, emerging markets, the link between realestate and stock markets, hedging and realized volatility to name a few. Below we present the mainfindings of these papers as they seem to span a wide area of applications in financial economics.