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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…
George M. Lady
Economic theory often does not fully specify the quantitative details of proposed models of economic activity. Instead, only the “direction of influence” of the associated variables is proposed. Such specifications are expressed by the sign patterns of the Ja…
Jean-Paul Chavas, Elisa Pagani
Nonlinear prices are commonly observed in market economies. This paper investigates nonlinear pricing under general conditions. It explores how nonlinear pricing can arise under nonconvexity. The arguments are presented in the context of an optimization probl…
Arie Harel, Giora Harpaz
The purpose of this paper is to develop a Bayesian model of the S&P 500 stock index in the presence of a circuit breaker rule that would be useful to traders who wish to update positions when information is limited because of a market trading halt. We assume…
Chihiro Morooka
This paper analyzes finitely repeated policy games where the government and the private sector alternately revise their actions from the set of non-negative real numbers. Unlike previous studies on policy games, the one-shot inefficient Nash equilibrium, know…
Andrew Schmitz, Claudine Chegini
In the debate over producer preference for price instability, Oi argues that producers prefer price instability to stability using only the case where demand shocks generate instability. In this case, storage hurts producers. We use the classic welfare econom…
Haiyan Xue, Xindong Zhang
This paper investigates the relation between investor sentiment and firm innovation investment in China, and explores the intermediary role of institutional investors. We find that the impact of investor sentiment on innovation investment is quite different b…
Ulrich Kevin Kamdoum Kamwa
This article is part of the analysis of business cycles and the convergence of integrated economies. In contrast to work on the convergence of business cycles in a monetary union, we study the synchronization of business cycles within the Economic Community o…
Ewerton Mendes Rosa, Leonardo Carnut
The objective of this study is to review the Healthcare Units (HU) life-cycle cost approaches with an emphasis on the project process, life-cycle cost, actors and measures to save resources. It was a systematic integrative review whose search syntax expressed…
Issam Tlemsani, Alanoud Alkhaldi, Batool Aljeshi, Israa Alluwaimi, Jawaher Alrayes
In the world of investment, the essential question is, to what degree does the risk of a security influence its expected return? The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) helps in answering this question. CAPM showed that the risk which can be spread away when s…
Guanfang Qiao
The era of big data has brought great changes to various industries, and the innovative application effect of big data-related technologies also shows obvious advantages. The introduction and application of big data technology in the audit field also become t…
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