《后共產主義經濟》是一本參考性刊物，其目的是增進我們對前共產主義國家的經濟體制、政策和表現的了解。《華爾街日報》的重點主要是歐洲后共產主義經濟體，包括前蘇聯的所有國家，但我們也考慮了有關蒙古、中國和越南的論文。重點是那些傳達原始研究結果的論文。然而，“思維碎片”和調查文章并不排除在外，只要它們是高質量的。《華爾街日報》的重點主要是應用經濟學和政治經濟學，但如果作者證明這些論文與我們的核心主題相關，則將考慮主要具有理論性質的論文。這些主題包括改革政策、制度變遷和宏觀、中微觀經濟層面的經濟績效；跨國比較分析和國際經濟關系也在該雜志發表的論文中得到了很好的體現。

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.