《后共产主义经济》是一本参考性刊物，其目的是增进我们对前共产主义国家的经济体制、政策和表现的了解。《华尔街日报》的重点主要是欧洲后共产主义经济体，包括前苏联的所有国家，但我们也考虑了有关蒙古、中国和越南的论文。重点是那些传达原始研究结果的论文。然而，“思维碎片”和调查文章并不排除在外，只要它们是高质量的。《华尔街日报》的重点主要是应用经济学和政治经济学，但如果作者证明这些论文与我们的核心主题相关，则将考虑主要具有理论性质的论文。这些主题包括改革政策、制度变迁和宏观、中微观经济层面的经济绩效；跨国比较分析和国际经济关系也在该杂志发表的论文中得到了很好的体现。
Post-Communist Economies is a refereed journal whose aim is to advance our understanding of the economic institutions, policies and performance of the ex-communist countries. The journal’s focus is primarily on European post-communist economies, including all the countries of the former Soviet Union, but we also consider papers on Mongolia, China and Vietnam. The emphasis is on papers that convey the findings of original research. ‘Think-pieces’ and survey articles, however, are not excluded, provided they are of high quality. The journal’s focus is chiefly on applied economics and political economy but papers that are of a primarily theoretical nature will be considered if the authors demonstrate their relevance to our core themes. Those themes include reform policies, institutional change and economic performance at micro-, meso- and macro-economic levels; cross-country comparative analysis and international economic relations are also strongly featured in papers published in the journal.
