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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…
Pham Van Dai
This paper presents a mechanism through which a depreciated real exchange rate can lead to a higher investment rate. In an intertemporal framework, it shows that a depreciated real exchange rate can make the tradable sector more profitable and thus a greater…
Prateek Goorha, Jason Potts
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 This article has been retracted to straighten the academic record.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…
Rui Nunes, Sofia B. Nunes, Guilhermina Rego
In a regulatory state the purpose of intervention by any Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA) is not only regulation in the strict sense but also the supervision of the activity of institutions providing a specific service, particularly the utilities. However,…
Yuji Matsuoka, Shigeyuki Hamori
It is generally believed that the signs of the estimated coefficient and its t value should be the same. This paper, however, shows that there may be an inconsistency in the signs of the estimated coefficient and its t value when we use the group mean dynamic…
Badamassi Aboubacar, Deyi Xu, Amadou Maiga Ousseini
The trade openness is one of the most important determinants of a country’s relative level of economic health. It plays a vital role for most free market economies in the world. This research is an attempt to investigate, particularly, the impact of the trade…
Lan Sun
Many banks and commentators argued that fair value accounting was the root caused the procyclical decline in bank assets and capitals, the failures of large financial sector and extreme volatility in financial asset prices during the GFC. Fair value measureme…
Frederick Betz, 1 1
Financial instability in Greece began in 2009 when the interest rates on Greek sovereign bonds surged; and this can be graphed in a “price disequilibrium” model. To explain how this came about, we create a systems-dynamics model of the Greek fiscal system. Go…
Yasuhiko Nakamura
This paper analyzes a model in which both the owner of a social welfare-maximizing public firm and the owner of an absolute profit-maximizing private firm can hire biased managers for strategic reasons in a mixed duopoly in the contexts of both a price compet…
Tadashi Morita
In this paper, I construct a two-country model in which oligopolistic firms export goods and undertake cost-reducing R&D investment. In this model, abilities of individual to become skilled worker are heterogeneous and they choose to become skilled worker or…
Bidisha Lahiri
This paper examines the effects of environmental taxes on the demand and supply sides of the economy and uncovers two opposite forces on long-term production. An increase in the environmental tax stimulates abatement behavior as producers lower production fro…
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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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