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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…
Pedro Hemsley, Lavinia Hollanda
This paper reports the impact of low-cost health centers on child mortality in Brazil. We use a comprehensive database to evaluate the impact of a change in Brazilian health policy from 2006 to 2009, when the number of health centers per capita increased sign…
Assoumou Ondo
This article is a contribution to the growing literature on the economics of religion. Indeed, to our knowledge, there is no study aimed at explaining the behavior of a revival church from a theoretical model. More precisely, we consider a household which, to…
Bharat Hazari, Jennifer T. Lai, 1 1
This paper presents results regarding the impact of regional and international tourism on the welfare of the domestic economy in the presence of congestion. The model used for this purpose is the dependency model of trade. Three main results are obtained from…
Aws AlHares, Gerard Dominic, Tarek Abu-Asi
This study investigates the impact of Institutional Ownership on Cost of Cap ital. A panel data of 200 companies from FORBES Global 2000 Leading Companies between 2010 and 2019 were used. The ordinary least square multiple regression analysis technique is use…
Vinicius Medeiros Magnani, Matheus da Costa Gomes, Rafael Moreira Antônio, Rafael Confetti Gatsios
This study investigated the effects of monetary policy changes on Brazilian banking efficiency during crises through data envelopment analysis and difference of means tests between March 2001 and June 2014. The results indicate an increase in the effectivenes…
Yaqi Sun, Yuanjun Zhao
This study investigates whether distribution of international assistance is influenced by recipient countries’ exchange rate regime and capital openness. Our empirical analysis finds that countries that have more fixed exchange rate regime have more possibili…
Ousmane Diomande
Our study therefore aims to inform and raise awareness of the advantages of Islamic finance with a view to an effective financial inclusion policy in Cote d’Ivoire. This consists of making known the fundamentals of Islamic finance by identifying the different…
Giovanni Antonio Cossiga
The sustainability principle explains the economic situation and its alterations according to the basic view of continuity, in the view of life preservation for future generations. From this perspective, the troubles affecting the economy, including those cau…
Marcio Lorencini Ferreira, Michele Nascimento Jucá, Ricardo Goulart Serra
In the recent recession scenario in Brazil, the credit market experienced shortages, reinforcing the search for alternative sources of credit by companies, such as the issuance of corporate bonds. Among the aspects that may influence the yield spread of compa…
Yong He
Sparked by Baumol’s revenue-versus profit-maximizing models of the firm, this note shows that if a nation seeks GDP-maximizing growth with capital expansion as driving force, the model could work only under the assumption that the consumers’ aversion to under…
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