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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…
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
In this note, we analyze a stylized creative region that is populated by members of the creative class. The representative individual in this region possesses a constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility function. The existing creative capital is used to…
Mehraj Bin Yasaar Parouty, Maarten Jacobus Postma
This paper provides a closed form distribution for the probability of intertemporal indifference between a certain quantity of a commodity now, Q (0) = q 0 , and some future quantity Q ( T ) = q at time t = T assuming a discount w eight, w ( T ) ∈ (0,1) .
Stephen Dobson, John Goddard
In this paper we develop an economic model of a professional sports league, in which the teams acquire playing talent in an external market. There have been several earlier formulations of this open model and all rely upon an inappropriately specified revenue…
Amjad Toukan
This paper examines the decision to go public in the presence of large and dispersed shareholders. The decision to go public and the shape of the ownership structure itself depend on the particular combination of concentrated and dispersed ownership that maxi…
Nobuyuki Iwai, Stanley R. Thompson
An endogenous growth model is developed to explore the effect of work and income sharing (WIS) on economic growth and welfare in a developing rural economy. The practice of WIS is a mechanism which converts incremental diversity of risk into volatility reduct…
Mark W. Zikiye, Rebecca Abraham, Charles Harrington
Mergers may be undertaken by giving shareholders of the target firm the right to exchange their stock for stock in the combined firm. Such stock mergers release the negative signal that the acquiring firm lacks cash. Informed traders seeking immediate gain ma…
Gianni Bosi, Magali Zuanon
We present different conditions for the existence of a pair of upper semicontinuous functions representing an interval order on a topological space without imposing any restrictive assumptions neither on the topological space nor on the representing functions…
Ricardo Laborda, Jose Olmo
This paper proposes a theoretical model for determining the exchange rate based on the interaction between international bond markets with different maturities. The model accommodates the presence of risk premia between short- and long-term bonds. The differe…
Rodrigo Hernandez, Yinying Shao
This paper introduces a new financial product named Certificates on a Straddle with Forward Start and provides detailed descriptions of the product specifications. It shows that the payoff of a Certificate on a Straddle with Forward Start can be duplicated by…
Rodrigo Hernandez, Pu Liu
In this paper we introduce a new financial product named Bonus Certificates PLUS and we provide detailed descriptions of the product specifications. We show that the payoff of a Bonus Certificates PLUS can be duplicated by the combination of a long position i…
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