By submitting their work to Journal of Applied Economic Research for consideration, the author(s) confirm their authorship. When a manuscript is written by a team of authors, one of them handles the submission process while acknowledging all the co-authors.
1. Each co-author should have participated sufficiently in the research to be listed as a co-author.
2. Authorship credit is based on a substantial intellectual contribution to either of the following research stages: research design and conceptualization, methodology development, data collection, analysis and interpretation of the results, drafting and finalizing of the manuscript.
3. Contributors not meeting the authorship criteria, including substantial intellectual contribution, preparation and critical revision of the manuscript, approval of the final version of the manuscript, consent to be accountable for the work in its entirety, cannot be credited as the authors. However, their contribution is recognized in the Acknowledgements section.

