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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…
Neil J. Buckley, David Cameron, Katherine Cuff, Jeremiah Hurley, Stuart Mestelman, Stephanie Thomas
This paper presents the results of a behavioral economics study to test if the tax rates submitted to finance the public provision of a private good are influenced by changing the name of the private good. A revealed-preference laboratory decision-making expe…
Frederick Betz, Timothy R. Anderson, Aurobindh Kalathil Puthanpura
In a previous paper, we analyzed an economic event in 2016-17 of a sudden demonetarization of India, to test the empirical validity of the Chartalist school of monetary theory. The Chartalist school had distinguished three kinds of money: Fiat, Commodity, and…
Rohit Joshi, Rohan Gupte, Palanisamy Saravanan
Online retailing in India has shown remarkable growth in the recent years. Despite having a low internet penetration rate of 34.5%, India has the second largest number of internet users in the world after China. Given the growing importance of the online reta…
Dinesh Ramdhony, 1 1
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributions: the CSR levy. Using public interest theory as the theoretical lens, this paper adopts a pro-regulation approach and justifies the introd…
Michail Pazarskis, Alexandros Alexandrakis, Manthos Vogiatzoglou, George Drogalas
In this study a bootstrapped data analysis from financial statement analysis is proposed to evaluate the short-run operating gains from mergers of Greek listed firms after the outbreak of the sovereign debt crisis in Greece. The examined sample consists of th…
Ning Gao
This paper relates outsourcing parties together and tests whether the out sourc ing contracts have any impact on the relationship of the two parties’ perfor mance. Both the ex-anti and the ex-post changes in stock and accounting related performance of the con…
Kozo Harimaya, Yasufumi Ozaki
This paper investigates the effects of bank branch competition on rural firm entry and exit in Hokkaido, the largest and northernmost prefecture in Japan. Using a panel dataset of 188 municipalities, we run a two-stage least squares regression to examine whet…
Feng Jiao
A rapidly growing literature has documented evidences suggesting the mispricing of options. Building on recent results of option pricing bounds imposed by stochastic dominance, this paper examines the time-series proprieties of such mispricing. In an applicat…
Elmo Tambosi Filho
In the last decades, CAPM model has been of great interest in the scientific scene. Despite all the criticism, the improvement of the static CAPM, which has generated new dynamic models, provided investors with stronger guarantee through financial transaction…
Ken Hung, C. W. Yang, Yifan Zhao, Kuo-Hao Lee
In this paper, we calculate four different kinds of means —AM, GM, HM, and GDM—to investigate the risk-return contour using Markowitz risk minimization and Sharpe’s angle maximization models. For a given value (target portfolio return), the rank order of risk…
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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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