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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…
Edwige Kamitewoko
African countries are expected to be having a comparative advantage when it comes to agricultural products. If this is true, specializing in agriculture can increase output levels. However, the effect of agriculture on growth has yielded various research inte…
Yufei Gao
The aim of this report is to analyze the employment status of African immigrants in South Africa. It will look at the reasons behind a workers’ decision to emigrate, local reactions to migrant workers in South Africa, and the benefits and conflicts that resul…
Eder Oliveira Abensur, Wesley Pompeu de Carvalho
The Modern Portfolio Theory was mathematically structured on the basis of the risk-return tradeoff: in other words, the riskier the investment, the greater the required potential return. Traditional portfolio optimization models, however, implicitly consider…
Ibrahim Chaibou Oumarou, 1 1
This article aims to contribute to the literature on policy response to COVID-19 by doing a case study on the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries. It consists to analyze the effect of the policy response adopted in 2020 by the Central B…
Saibal Ghosh
Within a theoretical framework, the paper analyzes the impact of government intervention in the credit market on bank lending. The results indicate that in the short-run, a monetary expansion lowers lending that is not susceptible to political intervention by…
Francisco J. S. Rocha, Marcos R. V. Magalhães, Átila A. Brilhante
This study aims to analyze, leaning on a structural autoregressive vector (SVAR), whether external variables, such as the commodity price index and the US GDP, are relevant to consistently capture the dynamic interaction between credit and important domestic…
Ian C. Filakati
Economic growth and its impact on economies and citizens has been widely debated by economists for some time with its key attributes including the fact that the benefits of such growth trickle down to all sections of society, especially the poor. This trickle…
Xiangdan Piao
The potential relationship between nature and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is provided using cross-sectional macro-data collected including 17 countries of major developed and developing nations whose number of cases were greater than 500 in March 15 t…
F. W. S. Lima
In this work, we study the problem of tax evasion on Erdös Rènyi random graphs. Here, we consider that the agents may be in three different states, namely honest tax payers, tax evaders, and undecided that are individuals in an intermediate class among h…
James R. Barth, Richard J. Cebula, Yinan Ni
Issues that occur with any tax system involve the incentives and disincentives of individuals to evade the tax. This theoretical note investigates how risk preferences could affect tax evasion under the proposed FairTax. We develop a constrained utility-maxim…
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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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