Applied Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Economics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Market share-prices versus their fundamental values: the case of the New York stock exchange133
Gender equity in labor market opportunities and aggregate technical efficiency: a case of equity promoting efficiency104
Financial inclusion and non-performing loans in MENA region: the moderating role of board characteristics59
Not all data are created equal - Data sharing and privacy56
Risk spillover effect of global financial markets in the context of novel coronavirus epidemic52
Will the liberalization of intermediate trade restrain corporate pollution emissions?—Empirical evidence from Chinese micro-enterprises49
Prior beliefs in market efficiency and fund cash flows48
Conditional effect of government debt on household debt46
Does multiple job holding raise labour use efficiency of the farm operators? Evidence from rural India46
Natural disasters and entrepreneurship in rural China45
Are Special Economic Zone policies (SEZ) effective? An empirical analysis on the transport and logistics’ sector45
For older and poorer: the implications of self-employment among individuals over 5044
Does digital innovation improve carbon productivity? A new perspective based on industrial upgrading44
Directors and officers liability insurance and the wealth effect of M&A announcements43
Promotion or inhibition: the impact of corporate financialization on the labour income share in China42
The impact of the governmental environmental policy on the tfp of heavily polluting companies: the evidence from Chinese listed companies40
Life expectancy in nursing homes37
Drought-induced macroeconomic effects on China: a time-frequency domain analysis37
The impact of the consolidated omnibus reconciliation act of 1985 on young adult health insurance coverage37
Can intellectual property protection reduce carbon emissions? A quasi-natural experiment from China37
Game outcome uncertainty revisited – a clustering analysis of team-specific game attendance predictions36
Mispricing in linear asset pricing models36
Intergenerational occupational mobility in China: an urban-rural comparison34
Global value chain participation and economic growth in Africa 134
The impact of high-standard farmland construction on farmland abandonment by farm households: evidence from rural China34
A reassessment of human capital convergence and its determinants: evidence from a cross-country analysis33
A cost-benefit analysis of statins as a dementia intervention33
Business Chinese talent demand in Africa: the effect of China-Africa goods trade structure33
Central environmental protection inspection, environmental quality, and economic growth: evidence from China30
Does skill balancing prepare for entrepreneurship? Testing the underlying assumption of the jack-of-all-trades view29
Digital finance and greener emissions: evidence from China28
Predicting French SME failures: new evidence from machine learning techniques28
The impact of the single supervisory mechanism on Eurozone banking: the assessment of trends in efficiency and frontier position28
Family care, rural labour migration and land lease: A case study of Jiangxi Province, China27
Tropical storms and the U.S. natural gas demand: how have hurricanes impacted natural gas consumption?27
Corporate governance and capital structure: dynamic panel threshold analysis27
Gender disparities between young and adult NEETs: do we need a more refined policy approach?26
External profit pressure and operating efficiency: evidence from Chinese listed companies26
Effect of financial integration on total factor productivity: innovation with spillover25
Data assets, information uses, and operational efficiency25
Environmental and social attitudes and investments in crypto-assets25
Consumers’ willingness to pay for alternative protein food products: taste preference, health, and environmental concerns25
Pretrial justice reform and black–white difference in employment24
Fiscal shocks and non-profit employment24
Credit constraints and college attendance24
Evolution of technical efficiency in Chinese coal mining firms: the roles of competition and technology23
Race and teaching evaluations: evidence from the covid-19 pandemic23
Decomposing the immigration-trade link using price and quantity margins: the role of education23
Manageable hospital service volume under global budgeting: evidence from a policy reform in Taiwan22
FERTILITY DECLINE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AFTER 199022
The defence economy: an assessment of productivity change in NATO countries21
Adstock revisited21
Assessing the economy-wide impacts of strengthened bank capital requirements in Indonesia using a financial computable general equilibrium model21
The economic effects of the comply-or-explain dividend payout policy: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment21
What drives health-care spending in China? A nationwide decomposition analysis21
Can credibility offset electricity price effect on business confidence? An empirical investigation from a large emerging economy20
The decoupling between public debt fundamentals and bond spreads after the European sovereign debt crisis20
The decision of investment and financial influenced by executives with overseas values: Based on individualism - overconfidence20
Mutual fund asset allocation during COVID-19: evidence from an emerging market19
Foreign investors, rebalancing trades, and increases in U.S.-Japan stock market correlations19
Did the Medicaid expansion reduce service utilization among the Medicare population?19
Are the drivers of structural change different in Asia and Africa?19
Water in Mexican industry: an economic value study19
Tax haven investments for Profit-Shifting: evidence from Spanish multinationals19
Can governments sleep more soundly when holding international reserves? A banking and financial vulnerabilities perspective*19
In-utero exposure to local COVID-19 incidence and infant birthweight in Brazil18
Estimating an optimal macroeconomic uncertainty index for Australia18
Interregional industrial transfer, industrial correlation spillover, and productivity: evidence from China’s textile industry17
Construction of a composite fintech index to measure financial inclusion for developing countries17
Not all in this together? Early estimates of the unequal labour market effects of Covid-1917
How does the digital economy impact the green upgrading of manufacturing? Perspectives on technological innovation and resource allocation17
Migration, exports and capital: what is the impact of ghettos on local firms?17
Predicting season ticket holder no-show behaviour: more nuanced evidence from Switzerland17
Market reaction to macroeconomic anouncements: green vs conventional bonds17
Sectoral investment analysis for Saudi Arabia17
The price elasticity of casino gambling: a case study in Argentina16
Mutual fund performance components: an application to asset allocation mutual funds16
Bilateral environmental aid and trade16
Estimates of Trade Based Money Laundering within the European Union16
Entrepreneurs and China’s private sector SMEs’ performance16
Local government spending efficiency and fiscal decentralization: evidence from Italian municipalities16
Planning for potential increases in disbursements and risk of managed funds conditional on desired short-term performance levels15
Dynamics of structural transformation and business cycle synchronization: a panel quantile regression approach for India15
Measuring the developing trends of international construction industries in global value chains based on value added15
Marketplace lending and consumer credit outcomes: evidence from prosper15
The effect of Financial Development on Pro-Poor Growth: evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries15
The role of digital transformation in the socio-economic recovery post COVID-1915
Effects of business strategies on the selection of trusted taxpayers: case of South Korea15
BREXIT: equity market contagion and transmission channels15
Federalism and primary-income inequality15
Dynamic risk adjustment in long-run event study tests15
Religion in the labor market: evidence from India15
On the properties of the labour wedge: hours worked and government transfers in perspective15
The effect of internet gap on bilateral export: evidence from an extended gravity model14
The impact of supply chain finance on financial constraints of small and medium-sized enterprises and the moderating factors14
Effect of ESG performance on stock price crash risk: evidence from China14
On the efficiency of US community banks around the COVID-19 outbreak14
The wage impacts of intensified immigration enforcement on native and immigrant workers14
Moral hazard in public health policies14
Application of intellectual capital in SME bankruptcy14
Do demand and supply shocks in the global crude oil market exhibit asymmetric effects on exchange rates in 13 Asian economies?14
A technical efficiency analysis of intra-central bank settlement mechanism in Eurozone14
Inequality of higher educational opportunity – the role of circumstances among the Jordanian people14
Parental education and children’s educational outcomes: evidence from the compulsory schooling law in China14
The influence of clan culture on the accounting information quality: evidence from privately listed firms in China14
The rise of right-wing populism and voting power distribution in German state parliaments13
Creditor protection and asset-debt maturity mismatch: a quasi-natural experiment in China13
Navigating the hype wave: a generalized economic-mathematical model for managing socio-economic processes in the neural-network economy13
Impact of three-point rule change on competitive balance in football: a synthetic control method approach13
Determinants of German firm’s adjusted effective tax rate13
What happens when the disruptive asset meets the conventional asset? An analysis of cryptocurrency and REIT13
Adversity breeds ingenuity: exploring the enduring effect of historical Yellow River flooding on family firm innovation13
Does symbolic AI-related disclosure influence CEO promotion? Evidence from state-owned enterprises in China13
Bitcoin returns and YouTube news: a behavioural time series analysis13
Why do insiders sell stocks after receiving options?13
Rethinking family business resilience: an empirical examination of family firms’ performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the US13
Sustainable development goals achievement in European companies. An empirical analysis in the technology industry13
Impact of expertise in standardization on business internationalization13
Sustainable development and tourism: a hierarchical statistical perspective to model European Citizens’ behaviour towards local food consumption while on holiday13
Impact of land fragmentation and fragmentation of property rights on the profit efficiency of rice cultivation and multiple farming in Taiwan13
Spillover effects from partisan conflict and trade & immigration policy uncertainty to US travel and leisure stocks: a time-frequency analysis12
Sister cities and outward foreign direct investment: evidence from the Chinese listed firms12
What do we know about COVID-19 media coverage and African stock markets? A time-varying connectedness analysis12
Effects of agricultural informatization on agricultural carbon emissions: a quasi natural experiment study in China12
Accelerated depreciation policy of fixed assets and corporate sustainable development: a perspective of ESG12
How does digital finance affect rural capital misallocation? Evidence from China12
“Blood-transfusion” or “blood-making”: the impact of public transfer payment on labour supply12
Examining the impact of pacification on informal entrepreneurs in Brazilian favelas12
Improved methods for identifying the operational determinants of a bank’s capital ratio12
Water rights and firm productivity: evidence from the water rights trading policy in China12
Gender specific human capital and knowledge spillovers: a comparative analysis of the US and Brazil12
CSR performance of dual-class firms in different life cycle stages12
The strengthening of environmental technical standards in the United States: impact on the environmental performance of Chinese export enterprises12
Even more discouraged? The NEET generation at the age of COVID-1912
Measuring potential profit gains using a multi-stage production technology: evidence from the Chinese banking industry12
Pledge to green: the green innovation effect of intellectual property pledge financing pilot policy12
Geopolitical risk and investment-cash flow sensitivity: does the age of the CEO matter? Empirical evidence from emerging economy12
Inter-dependencies among BRICS countries: the perspective of sovereign bonds12
Beyond selfishness: the interaction of income and human values in shaping Europeans’ ideology11
How do risk shocks reshape the spillovers among the oil, gold, emerging, and developed markets? Evidence from a new TVP-VAR-based wavelet coherence framework11
Generalizing the General: generalizing the CES production function to allow for the viability of input thresholds11
Estimating the money demand function for Saudi Arabia using divisia monetary aggregate11
Does more maths and natural sciences in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? Evidence from a curriculum reform11
Consistency of the central bank of the Republic of Türkiye’s policy stance with its discourses: a fuzzy logic analysis11
Digital economy development and regional innovation resilience: mechanism and empirical analysis11
Analysing the evolving effectiveness of monetary policy instruments in China: insights from the TVP-SV-MF-bfavar framework11
The spy who dined well: James Bond and the real cost of fine dining11
The home price–income relationship for US states11
To what extent did independent directors help firms’ recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from China11
Not all oil shocks are alike and symmetric for economic growth: evidence from Korea11
The evolution of competition and efficiency in U.S. Banking: new results from a novel two-step nonparametric method11
The pre-FOMC announcement drift: short-lived or long-lasting? Evidence from financial and volatility markets11
Analysis of mutual relationships between investments made by content providers and network operators using the VAR model11
The role of behavioural antecedents in driving wine consumption in Taiwan restaurants11
TARGET balances in the euro area: the case of Germany10
Are there pricing spillovers within ETFs? Evidence from emerging market corporate bonds10
Judicial independence and regional digital innovation in China10
Can government procurement improve capacity utilization in enterprises? Evidence from China10
Leveling the playing field: the effects of multi-school zoning policies on housing prices10
Internet Penetration and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Chinese Young Labor Market10
Effect of religious attendance on the middle-aged worker’s wage in the United States: a possible causal connection10
Can blockchain enabled green bond issuance lead to intent to invest? A moderated mediation model10
Does fiscal decentralization really matter for public service satisfaction?10
The effect of financial access on convergence: evidence from the US agricultural sector10
Surprise information in Major League Baseball: how teams and betting markets respond10
E-participation as a driver of economic growth: a cross-country study10
DETERMINANTS OF TAX CAPACITY AND TAX EFFORT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS10
The effects of public debt accumulation and business cycle on government spending multipliers10
Impact of intelligent transformation on the green innovation quality of Chinese enterprises: evidence from corporate green patent citation data10
The nexus between debt structure, firm performance, and the financial crisis: non-linear panel data evidence from Japan10
Technical efficiency, scale effect, and trade liberalization: evidence from the Nepalese manufacturing sector10
Local government and environmental policy: empirical evidence on the link between spending and regulation 110
A first-sale price index of seafood products: evidence from France 1994-202010
Abnormal audit fees and accounting quality: further evidence from audit hours10
Spatio-temporal modelling of municipal waste management systems’ meta-efficiency scores10
Adoption and frequency of early morning delivery of food in Korea: an empirical analysis9
Wage leadership in U.S. labour markets between alternative levels of industry and governments9
Economic development program spending in the US: is there club convergence?9
High-speed railway and shadow banking: evidence from finance leases9
Does anti-poverty intervention strengthen mental resilience? Evidence from the COVID-19 shock on targeted poverty alleviation program in China9
Automation and value-chain embedment: evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms9
Are English football players overvalued?9
The impact of government subsidies on the persistence of firm innovation: evidence from China9
Navigating the digital terrain: assessing the impact of digital infrastructure on local tax enforcement9
The spillover effect and external welfare of extracurricular tutoring: evidence from academic tutoring for middle-school students in China9
Impact of commodity price volatility on external debt: the role of exchange rate regimes9
Cross-state disparities in pharmaceutical expenditure in the U.S.9
Choose the school, choose the performance: new evidence on determinants of students’ performance in eight European countries9
Does natural gas volatility affect Bitcoin volatility? Evidence from the HAR-RV model9
Insider share pledging and firm value consequences under the COVID-19: evidence from China9
Environmental determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions: evidence from the global agricultural and food sector9
Housing market convergence: evidence from Germany9
Does global value chain participation induce economic growth? Evidence from panel threshold regression9
Physical infrastructure and economic growth9
A novel factor model to determine recovery rates of bank credit towards local governments9
Did China’s strengthened regulation on public–private partnership promote the participation of private capital?9
Financial development and mortality rates9
The effect of HSR connection on urban cluster centrality: evidence from China9
Can monetary and fiscal policy account for South Africa’s stagnation?9
The role of peer effects on farmers’ decision to adopt unmanned aerial vehicles: evidence from Missouri9
How does financial literacy affect farmers’ agricultural investments? A study from the perspectives of risk preferences and time preferences9
Human Capital Index (HCI) – from uncertainty to robustness of comparisons9
Saving at the top and the long-run relationship between wealth and income inequality9
Broadband infrastructure and local government fiscal risk: evidence from China9
Electricity consumption in Australia: the role of clean energy in reducing CO2 emissions9
The comparison of bilateral trade between China and ASEAN, China and EU: from the aspect of trade structure, trade complementarity and structural gravity model of trade9
Board diversity and corporate social responsibility disclosure of multinational corporations9
Children’s gender and parents’ long-term care arrangements: evidence from China9
Financial inclusion and political institutions’ role in renewable energy transition: what does the data say?9
Public health insurance and migration of farm workers in the U.S9
Employee tenure and macroeconomic conditions9
Harmonized luminosity and economic activity across provinces in China: cross-sectional differences, regional time series, and inequality dynamics9
Migration, diversity and regional risk sharing9
Utility-generating government spending and (in)determinacy in a two-sector model9
Homeownership, Labour Market Transitions and Earnings9
Identification and correction of ratchet effect of residential land price: empirical study on urban agglomeration in China8
The adaptive market hypothesis of Decentralized finance (DeFi)8
Pro-environment consumer behaviour and electric vehicle adoptions: a comparative regional meta-analysis8
Off-farm work, adoption of resource-conservation technology, and farm performance: evidence from banana farmers in China8
The financial risks from wind turbine failures: a value at risk approach8
Technological progress and labour welfare: evidence from robot adoption in China8
Household income and tourism expenditure: an unconditional quantile regression approach8
The effect of conscientiousness on managerial learning from stock prices8
Lines of credit and vulnerability during the financial crisis: a survival analysis for European SMEs8
Is there a state-dependent optimal interval for firms’ R&D investment? Evidence from China8
Gender differences in the housing decisions of married-couple families: evidence from urban China8
Capital market liberalization and firm export performance: evidence from China’s Shanghai-Hong Kong and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect programmes8
Regional competition, spatial spillover effects, and entrepreneurship subsidy policies—evidence from incubators in Guangdong, China8
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on manager sentiment: evidence from Chinese non-financial listed firms8
Has Japan’s work style reform had the intended effect?8
Bank board diversity on risk and value: evidence from Taiwan8
What can we learn from industry-level (aggregate) production functions?8
Foreign direct investment, off-farm employment and rural labour income: evidence from China8
Risk-taking in hot weather: evidence from Powerball sales8
How does outward foreign direct investment influence manufacturing industry sustainable growth in China?8
Composite equity issuance and the cross-section of country and industry returns8
The return of university reputation in job applications: evidence from a field experiment in China8
The impacts of policy restrictions on trade in services8
Is agricultural self-sufficiency effective to protect local markets from global markets? Empirical evidence from the beef sector in Japan8
Smart manager and investor effects in offshore financial development: the decisive role of cognitive ability on risk preference8
Improving the design of cash transfers to reduce the regressive effects of a carbon tax in Latin American countries - a look at territorial heterogeneity8
Female CEOs and earnings management: examining risk aversion versus social identity theories8
Measuring the impact of the embedding effect in contingent valuation studies of cultural public goods: the case of museums8
The impact of China’s bilateral currency swap agreements on bilateral direct investments8
Place-based V.S. space-neutral policies: the choice of regional coordinated development strategy8
Routine and non-routine sectors, tasks automation and wage polarization8
The effect of the digital economy service industry on regional economic resilience: evidence from three major urban agglomerations in China8
Mobile payments and crime: evidence from China8
Public debt dynamics in Brazil through the lens of its conditioning factors8
Growing with inequality: a DSGE model with heterogeneous human capital and endogenous economic growth8
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