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Theoretical Economics Letters (TEL) is an openly accessible journal published bimonthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of theoretical economics. All manuscripts m…
Juan F. Cabrera
This paper uses an experimental electronic market to investigate the effect of limited attention on the market maker’s ability to provide liquidity and, thus, on aggregate market liquidity. I find that higher demands on the market maker’s attention worsen her…
Amadou Maiga Ousseini, Xiaojuan Hu, Badamassi Aboubacar
Our study focuses on the analysis of the main determinants which have an effect on trade and current account balance. We empirically investigate the effect of money supply (M2), real exchange rate, income, inflation, investment, and house-hold consumption exp…
Wolfgang Rid, 1 1
While a lot of progress has been made in Germany to reduce CO 2 emissions in the past years in almost all sectors of economy, however, the sector of transportation shows increasing CO 2 emissions in the same period of time. Likewise, sustainability objectives…
Rama Seth, Vaanchitha Kalyanaraman
This paper looks at the effect of financial development on output and bank liquidity by doing a cross-country analysis of 119 countries across 18 years from 1997-2014. We develop three hypotheses by combining multiple strands of literature which have heretofo…
Wasanthi Thenuwara, Mahinda Siriwardana, Nam Hoang
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature examining the effects of population age structure on financial asset prices, including critical reviews of the methodologies used and an evaluation of contradictory results. The survey focuses on the…
Frederick Betz
One of the advantages of empirically-grounded theory is to provide a deeper understanding of natural events. This is true both of the physical and social sciences, and especially of economic theory. We examine an empirical event in economics in 2016, called t…
Sang Baum Kang, Pascal Létourneau
A spread option involves the right to obtain the spread between two asset prices at a predefined strike price. This type of derivative security is frequently used in financial markets and academic finance. Furthermore, analysts use the spread option technique…
David Scrogin
This note investigates payment timing and prior outcome effects on individual choice under uncertainty using a two - year dataset containing more than 29,000 individual discrete choices over 128 annual lotteries for big-game (elk) hunting licenses in the sout…
Sang Baum Kang, Jialin Zhao
Earnings of energy firms are exposed to a joint risk of energy price and energy consumption. The correlated fluctuations in both price and consumption present a joint risk of price and volume for a load-serving entity (LSE). In order to manage such a joint ri…
Bin Tu, Xiangyu Tao, Nian’en Guo
This article explores the fiscal decentralization factors that affect government spending on public culture services in two main point s —imbalance in revenue power and spending responsibility and promotion tournament by using provincial panel data from 1997…
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Theoretical Economics Letters (TEL) is an openly accessible journal published bimonthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of theoretical economics. All manuscripts m… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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