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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…
Yan Zhang, Lin Chen
China ’ s bond market is an emerging market. The number of bond defaults has been increasing in recent years, but the data set is severely imbalanced. Based on financial data of total 6731 corporate bond issuers which 50 bond issuers had defaulted, this paper…
Julian Alexienco Portillo, Álvaro Alves de Moura Jr., Vladimir Fernandes Maciel
This article aims to present the results obtained from a study seeking to determine whether technological innovation affected the competitive process of the mobile telephony sector in Brazil between 2012 and 2018. To achieve this aim, the panel data technique…
Tazarki Walid
This paper examines the existence of cost stickiness of KSA firms using the ABJ model. By analyzing accounting data of 12 selected Saudi companies from 2010 to 2019, the results show the existence of cost stickiness in COGS more than SGA Expenses. Furthermore…
Eisei Ohtaki
This study introduces search frictions into a variant of overlapping generations environments, as in Smith (2002) . In the model, this study compares financial intermediation to trading shares in decentralized secondary markets. The results show that under ce…
Eisei Ohtaki
This article reexamines the implications of stochastic lump-sum money transfers in a monetary overlapping generations model, wherein agents are endowed with maxmin expected utility preferences. It is shown that: 1) there exists a continuum of stationary monet…
Junxian Yang, Xindong Zhang
Low infrequent trading implies low liquidity. Liquidity and transaction cost are two sides of the coin. Whether transaction cost is the determinant of stock liquidity premium? This paper selects common stocks of NYSE/Amex/Arca/ Nasdaq from 1926 to 2011 as res…
Rati Mekvabishvili
Can formal institutions shape prosocial behavior and lead to the spillover effect of cooperation? To explore this question, we experimentally test the spillover-based theory in a novel context. We measured the spillover effect on cooperation in the same domai…
Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Alex Thevaranjan
In this paper, we develop an analytical model to illustrate the role of trust and fairness in alliances and quantify their economic value to alliance partners. We show that alliance profits and the individual firms’ profits are greatest when partners trust an…
Sofia Neto Paludo, Matheus Silva De Paiva
This paper aims to understand how the returns to scale can boost or deprive the effects of exchange rate depreciation on economic growth. A simple mathematical model was developed to describe the problem of the exporting firm in this context of internationali…
Julien Ghislain Mouanda Makonda, 1 1
The objective of this article is to analyze the effects of forest resources on the reception of foreign direct investment in the countries of the Congo Basin. The panel data used cover the period 1996-2018 and are extracted from the World Bank’s WDI and WGI d…
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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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