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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…
Dong Joon Lee, Sangheon Han, Yuji Ono, Shigetsune Yamoto
Considering the interplay between intra-firms (own retailing firms) and inter-firms (rival retailing firms) competition in vertically related markets, we compare linear tariffs and two-part tariffs pricing. In contrast to previous results, we show that when b…
Gideon Amankwah, Grace Ofori-Abebrese, Kofi Kamasa
Governments have the zeal to meet the developmental needs of their countries but due to their inability to raise the necessary revenue to commensurate their expenditure, the fiscal balance of their countries has deteriorated. The surge in the public debt of G…
Necmi K. Avkiran
I embark to measure the systemic risk of regional banks in Japan through shadow banking (microlevel and macrolevel linkages) using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Non-parametric PLS-SEM is used for the first time in the context o…
Kiyoshi Arakawa
This paper clarifies an effect of policy on the development of charging infrastructure and subsidies for promoting electric vehicles (EVs). Due to the long-term function of charging infrastructure, this paper constructs a multiple-period model to analyze poli…
Piet Keizer
In contrast to prevalent institutional theory this article offers a multi-motivated institutional analysis. Institutions are supposed to channel human behaviour, which is economically, socially and psychically driven, so as to maximize wealth, status and self…
Bashir Ahmad Joo, Kokab Durri
Over the years it has been noted that investors suffer from number of biases that affect their rationality while they take investment decisions and as such it is must for stakeholders to have an idea of these biases. Thus the objective of this paper is to exp…
Chanjin Chung
This study derives an optimal commodity advertising intensity rule for a vertically related market under bilateral oligopoly. The new optimality condition derived in this study extends the seminal Dorfman-Steiner Theorem [1] and recently published optimal adv…
Canh Phuc Nguyen, Thanh Dinh Su, Thai Vu Hong Nguyen
The roles of institutional quality on economic growth are still heavily debated in the literature. This paper investigates the impacts of institutional quality on economic growth for 29 emerging economies over the 2002-2015 period by employing System Generali…
George Varghese, Lakshmi Viswanathan
An all-inclusive financial system is essential for a nation as it augments efficiency and welfare by providing scope for secure and safe saving practices and by facilitating a wide range of improved financial services. The focus of the present study is on ide…
Hiromi Ishizuka
The purpose of this study is the effect of expansion of female labor demand on male labor demand for labor market reform to facilitate Japanese economic development. Firstly, the estimates using Hicks’ (1970) partial elasticity of complementarity and Allen’s…
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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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