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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…
Naseem Ahamed
Swaps have been one of the most widely used derivatives since 1970s and for good reasons. Interest rate swap is a mutual agreement between two parties to pay each other the differential amount of up and above the fixed v/s LIBOR. This paper tries to answer th…
Rohan Chinchwadkar, Rama Seth
The choice of exit mechanism between IPOs and acquisitions is an important decision faced by entrepreneurs and private equity investors. Although the decision to go public has been studied extensively, a firm’s choice between IPO and acquisition remains relat…
Takehisa Kumakawa
How to pick up the true meaning of messages exchanged in the laboratory is an important issue for experimental research. The present study investigates, by experimentally comparing self- and third-party evaluations, to what extent self-evaluations by message…
Nazaria Solferino, Serena Fiona Taurino, Maria Elisabetta Tessitore
Persuasion can be considered as a situation where subjects having an opinion or an argument are willing to change it in favor of others’ proposal only if the new message has personal relevance and significant consequences on their lives. In this paper, we arg…
Mudassar Hasan, Muhammad Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Yasir Rafiq, Ramiz Ur Rehman
This paper investigates the relationship between dividend payout ratio and profitability of a firm. For this, two main sectors of Pakistan are selected, energy and textile. The study covers a time span of 1996-2008. Firm performance is measured by earning per…
Naseem Ahamed, Mamoni Kalita, Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Long-term memory of stock markets is a topic that has not received its due attention from academics. Posting the assertion made by Fama, 1970 [1] about markets being efficient, no one can consistently outrun it for a longer duration. Handful of papers checked…
Badamassi Aboubacar, Deyi Xu, Amadou Maiga Ousseini
This study investigates whether foreign aid (AID) has a significant influence on economic growth in WAEMU’s (West African Economic and Monetary Union) countries. We use two (2) types of aid data: aggregate aid and disaggregate aid (aid in education, aid in ag…
Gen Chen, Jun Tang
This paper discusses the corruptive action widespread in the organizations’ worker recruiting: favoritism and bribery. The managers of the firm are actually able to discern the type of the productivity of the job-seekers, but they utilize the information adva…
Prateek Goorha
Short Retraction Notice The paper does not meet the standards of "Theoretical Economics Letters". This article has been retracted to straighten the academic record. In making this decision the Editorial Board follows COPE's Retraction Guidelines . The a im is…
Sekou Maiga
In this case study we examine the relationship between the collection of taxes and revenue targets generated by each of the Financial Services at the Directorate General Taxes of the Republic of Mali. Revenues generated by the Directorate General of Taxes con…
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