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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…
Yasuhiko Nakamura
This study explores the equilibrium outcomes in the contexts of quantity-setting and price-setting mixed duopolies with consistent conjectures of both the social welfare maximizing public firm and the relative profit maximizing private firm. Similar to the pr…
Kyung Hwan Baik
I study contests in which two asymmetric players compete with each other by expending irreversible efforts to win a prize. I consider three types of games, which are distinguished by their different timing assumptions: the simultaneous-move game, the sequenti…
Yoshito Takasaki
To design effective policies for rainforest conservation in shifting cultivation systems, it is crucial to have a better understanding of shifting cultivators’ decision making. This paper develops a unified dynamic farm model of shifting cultivation, addressi…
Yu Shao, Kai Shen, Weiru Zhang, Shuntian Yao
Over the last two decades, fisheries sector has been playing an important role in the global economy as a vibrant sector. By looking into the interactions among natural resources, human beings and government, this paper first briefly examines the issue of com…
Nisal Herath Mudiyanselage, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, Fujin Yi
This paper analyzes the decision to invest in building ethanol plants in Thailand . We analyze the effects of economic factors, strategic factors, and government polic ies on ethanol investment using discrete response and fixed effects regression models. Resu…
Mehraj Bin Yasaar Parouty, Sipke Visser, Maarten Jacobus Postma
The main theoretical contribution of this paper is a mechanical result that relates growth rates across n commodities. We examplify through a 2-commodity economy of health and money where the results of current health economic theory are confirmed using this…
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi
When it comes to inspections in invasive species management, the literature has shown that there is frequently a tension between economic cost reduction and inspection stringency. As such, we analyze the properties of two probabilistic inspection regimes that…
Li Choy Chong
This paper investigates the way economics moves, in other words we study the characteristics of economic dynamics by itself that is by abstracting from the single generating context, whatever this might be. We would like to concentrate on the fundamental mech…
Paolo Di Sia
In this work it is presented a new powerful model, well checked in the last years with the analysis of the dynamics of nano-bio-structures. The model permits the detailed study of the dynamical evolution of systems also at macro-level, offering analytical rel…
Jose Rigoberto Parada-Daza, Miguel Ignacio Parada-Contzen
This Paper presents a theoretical outline regarding the Emotional Well-being (EW) function as an extension of the economic utility function. EW includes habitual factors that are always present in everyday decision making. Firstly, an analytical-mathematical…
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