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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…
Jianying Li, Weiqi Liu, 1 1, Dongliang Yuan
This paper examines whether private entrepreneurs with communist party member status affect corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of private enterprises. Our empirical result reveals that firms led by private entrepreneurs of communist party membe…
Francisco Germano Carvalho Lucio, Ricardo A. de Castro Pereira, José Weligton Félix Gomes
This paper investigates the effects of corruption on income per capita over Brazilian states. Given the absence of proxies for corruption in this subnational level, it creates objective proxies for that. To achieve more accuracy on analyses, this paper also c…
Suzanna-Maria Paleologou
We construct a theoretical model to explain profligate electoral fiscal behaviour and to provide a tool, namely the estimated elasticity of intertemporal substitution, for the fiscal authorities to detect and timely constrain such behaviour to promote fiscal…
Yasunori Fujita
Although it is considered to be vital to stop the businesses and reduce the overlaps of people in order to fight off the new coronavirus, firms are not willing to shut their businesses unless they receive the compensation for the losses in their businesses. I…
Tomasz Serafin, Anna Michalak, Łukasz Bielak, Agnieszka Wyłomańska
The mining business is extremely sensitive to market factors in price behavior. One of the main risk factors in the KGHM, one of the biggest mining companies in the world, is the currency exchange rates prices. Thus, one of the main problems from the market r…
Denise Piper, Fernando Ferrari-Filho, Marcos Tadeu Lélis, 1 1
The article presents an empirical test of the hypothesis that productivity expansions are the answer to the inflation problems experienced by the Brazilian economy. The study obtained evidence from the estimation of a Structural Autoregressive Vector (SVAR) m…
Blessing Amos Atakli, Wonder Agbenyo
The concept of infrastructure, education, availability, usage, affordability, inequality, and accessibility of funds remain s useful in agricultural productivity. Nonetheless, the most instrumental challenge of rural farmers is the factors mentioned above, wh…
Jinjun Cheng, Dian Cheng
Goods of utility, in the final analysis, contain two parts of natural value and labor value: the natural value is created by god and given to us for free, the labor value is the human labor which is condensed in the commodity without any difference, and the c…
Jan Stenis
The Naturally Optimised Revenue Demand in Communities (NORDIC) model was employed to improve the education. Dropout is a serious problem. It affects not only the individual who drops out but also the university and society. This article introduced a new and p…
Yankuo Qiao
The literature evidently demonstrates the CEO-centric effect upon firms’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) engagements. Given the CEO’s strong discretionary power over CSR decisions and self-serving motive divergent from shareholder value maximization, it…
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