The Journal of Financial Economics began a new section containing applied papers and case studies in 1989. This section provides a high-quality professional outlet for scholarly studies of actual cases, events or practice. Such phenomena provide a rich source of data that illustrate or challenge accepted theory and lead to new insights about the world. These studies currently have few professional outlets, and with this section The Journal of Financial Economics takes a leading role in encouraging such work. Applications and case study papers are often different in form, scope and content and can be more conjectural. The papers deal with issues that are often less quantifiable, more descriptive and normative than usual. Papers that raise a new question or pose an old one in an innovative way and papers that test theories in specialized ways or document interesting phenomena which are likely to stimulate new research are emphasized.

《金融經濟學雜志》在1989年開始了一個包含應用論文和案例研究的新章節。本節為實際案例、事件或實踐的學術研究提供了高質量的專業渠道。這類現象提供了豐富的數據來源，說明或挑戰公認的理論，并導致對世界的新見解。這些研究目前很少有專業的渠道，金融經濟學雜志在這一部分起到了鼓勵這類工作的主導作用。應用程序和案例研究論文在形式、范圍和內容上往往不同，而且更具推測性。這些論文處理的問題往往比平常更不可量化，更具描述性和規范性。強調提出新問題或以創新的方式提出舊問題的論文，以及以專門的方式測試理論或記錄可能刺激新研究的有趣現象的論文。