Economic Analysis Letters

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E-ISSN: 2972-3272

Economic Analysis Letters (EAL) believes in the importance of inspiration for economic research, and aims to collect the analysis inspiration of outstanding economic researchers. With an open attitude and length limitation, Economic Analysis Letters can provide convenience for authors to transform their inspiration into research results and spread them worldwide. All researchers are welcome to submit their innovative articles to Economic Analysis Letters. The "letter" format is characterized by concise communications, serving as a means to promptly convey significant aspects of new research. 

Editors aim to provide an efficient and high-quality peer review process (double-blind) to authors. Where articles are sent out for full review, authors receive careful reports and feedback.

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Determinants of Microfinance Interest Rates
by Shakil Quayes
EAL  2025 4(2):78; 10.58567/eal04020001 - 15 June 2025
Abstract
Microfinance loans have long been associated with relatively high interest rates. There is a wide variation of interest rates charged by microfinance institutions (MFIs) across countries, as well as some dispersion of interest rates across MFIs within the same country. The source of interest rate variation can result from institution specific characteristics such as, average lo [...] Read more

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Geopolitical Challenges and Natural Gas Supply
by Xiaomei Lv , Lunwu Liu  and  Min Bai
EAL  2025 4(1):77; 10.58567/eal04010006 - 15 March 2025
Abstract
This study examines the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which began on February 24, 2022, on natural gas prices and supply security in major global markets. Six months after the conflict's onset, natural gas prices surged by an average of 78.65% across international markets. Notably, prices in the European Union, Russia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea saw sub [...] Read more

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The Technology Transfer Functions of Genuinely Entrepreneurial UK Universities Exhibit an Ambidextrous Hybrid Management Structure
by Robert B. Mellor
EAL  2025 4(1):76; 10.58567/eal04010005 - 15 March 2025
Abstract
Forty-five UK universities were approached, drawn from 21 universities whose client technology/knowledge-transfer firms perform consistently well (category 1 universities), and 24 universities whose client technology/knowledge-transfer firms perform consistently poorly (category 2). Contact was established with staff in the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) or similar department [...] Read more

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Predicting Recessions and Information About Yield Curves and Stock Markets in Japan
by Hokuto Ishii
EAL  2025 4(1):75; 10.58567/eal04010004 - 15 March 2025
Abstract
Using data from the Japanese government bonds and stock markets, this study examines the predictability of Japanese recessions based on a probit model with instrument variables. By decomposing the term spread into the expected short-term interest rate and the term premium, this study analyzes the relationship between the components of the term spread and recessions. The results [...] Read more

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Digitalization Intensity and Extensive Margins of Exports in Manufacturing Firms from 27 EU Countries - Evidence from Kernel-Regularized Least Squares Regression
by Joachim Wagner
EAL  2025 4(1):74; 10.58567/eal04010003 - 15 March 2025
Abstract
The use of digital technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, or smart devices can be expected to go hand in hand with higher productivity and lower trade costs, and, therefore, to be positively related to export activities. This paper uses firm level data for manufacturing enterprises from the 27 member countries of the European Union to shed further light on this is [...] Read more

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USA – Innovation Index: A State - Level Proposal
by Rafael Acevedo , Jose U. Mora  and  Jorge Romero-Habeych
EAL  2025 4(1):73; 10.58567/eal04010002 - 15 March 2025
Abstract
We propose an open-access innovation index for the U.S. states. This index was built by classifying into four core areas the twelve more important indicators, inputs, and outputs, that are widely accepted in the literature as the most relevant for measuring innovation. We consider the indicators aggregated in the areas of human capital and business environment as the inputs tha [...] Read more

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Beyond Their Borders – Economic Freedom: Uncovering One of the Motivations of Unauthorized Migration to the U.S.A.
by Rafael Acevedo  and  Juan Bogado
EAL  2025 4(1):72; 10.58567/eal04010001 - 15 March 2025
Abstract
This study documents the relationship between economic freedom and unauthorized immigration to the U.S.A. and tries to answer a still-in-debate question, what motivates people to unauthorizedly migrate? Using the generated instrument variables methodology, and a data panel of 15 countries and 16 years, the endogenous variable is the gap in economic freedom between the country o [...] Read more

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Spatial Effect of Green Finance Development on Regional Green Innovation Efficiency
by Shuo Luo  and  Yuchen Shen
EAL  2024 3(4):71; 10.58567/eal03040006 - 15 December 2024
Abstract
Green finance is an important driving force to promote green innovation and achieve green development. In order to deeply explore the internal relationship between green finance and green innovation efficiency, this paper selects China's provincial panel data from 2012 to 2023, uses the entropy method and super efficiency SBM model to measure the green finance development index [...] Read more

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The Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment— An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Data from 31 Chinese Provinces
by Zilong Li  and  Paredes John
EAL  2024 3(4):70; 10.58567/eal03040005 - 15 December 2024
Abstract
This paper employs a two-way fixed effects model and uses panel data from 31 provinces of China between 2012 and 2022 to empirically analyze the impact of digital inclusive finance on China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI). The study finds that, overall, the development of digital inclusive finance in China significantly promotes OFDI. Its sub-dimensions, including co [...] Read more

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The Golden Ratio Applied to Financial Gravity Models: Fees, Taxes and Commerce
by Guillermo Peña
EAL  2024 3(4):69; 10.58567/eal03040004 - 15 December 2024
Abstract
Recently, some authors have found derivations and applications of the golden ratio in economics science. Based on previous models of Financial Gravity (FG) and generalizing them, this paper proposes the maximization of pure flows after charges as a way for applying the golden ratio in the sales-costs of production ratio in competitive equilibrium, leading to an optimal unitary [...] Read more