Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	66
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	55
Economic consequences of tax director departure	50
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	46
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	44
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	42
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	37
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	33
State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball	32
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	29
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	28
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	25
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	22
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	20
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	20
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	19
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	19
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	19
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	19
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	18
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	18
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	18
Does public data openness matter for corporate social responsibility?	18
Research on structural breaks in dependence: dynamic factor Copula models	18
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	17

Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	17
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	17
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	16
Mediating effect of infrastructure in the aid–growth relationship: evidence from China’s aid to Africa	16
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	16
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	16
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	15
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	15
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	15
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	15
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	15
High-speed rail as a catalyst for clean technological change: evidence from China	15
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	15
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	14
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	14
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	14
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	14
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	14
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	14
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	14
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	13
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	13
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	13
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	13
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	13
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	13
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	12
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	12
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	12
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	12
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	12
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	12
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	12
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	12
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	11
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	11
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	11
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	11
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	11
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	11
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	11
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	11
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	11
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	11
What’s bad for the environment is also bad for the market: the impact of air quality on the mispricing of dual-listed shares in China	11
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	10
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	10
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	10
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	10
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	10

Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	10
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	10
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	10
Turnout in the time of corona: evidence from the legislative elections in Korea	10
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	10
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	10
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	9
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	9
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	9
Cross-border capital flows and stock market returns: a multi-channel analysis based on an ANN-RRMIDAS model	9
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	9
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	9
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	9
Quantitative easing and systemic risk in the post-Lehman era	9
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	9
The impact of non-local human capital on local wages: exploring daily inflow of non-local human capital and its impact on local wages	9
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	9
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	9
Correction	9
Investor attention and the ex-dividend day returns	9
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	9
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	9
Who understands the US housing market?	8
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	8
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	8
Finding distant partners: internet infrastructure and the geographical distribution of suppliers	8
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	8
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	8
Forecasting market returns using machine learning: evidence from Random Forest models	8
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	8
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	8
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	8
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	8
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Sextortion and corruption	8
Mixed-ownership reform and capital market performance of SOEs: empirical evidence from stock liquidity	8
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	8
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	8
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	8
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	8
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	7
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	7
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	7
China’s monetary policy surprises and systemic risk in non-financial corporations: a perspective of risk decomposition	7
Machine learning-based customer segmentation: advances and applications in retail	7
Outward foreign direct investment in the artificial intelligence era: productivity enhancement versus asset-light expansion	7
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	7
Social media discussion and the market reaction to earnings announcements: evidence from China	7
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	7
Office spaces and urban costs	7
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	7
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	7
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	7
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	7
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	7
Foreign exchange rate shocks and stabilizing role of interbank markets: evidence from Turkey	7
Social reputation and AI overreliance: an experimental test with ChatGPT-3.5	7
How does China’s new budget law affect the pricing of local government bonds?	7
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	7
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	7
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	7
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
Heterogeneity in the nominal exchange rate response to oil price shocks in oil-exporting countries: a new episode of the ‘fear of floating’?	6
Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	6
Learning about supply chain risk and firm performance: evidence from a language model	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
Supplementary health Insurance and fraud victimization: evidence from critical Illness Insurance in China	6
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	6
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	6
Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap	6
Digital inclusive finance and Zipf’s law for firms of China: an investigation based on the full-sample data	6
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	6
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	6
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	6

Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	6
Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	6
Unveiling Bitcoin market dynamics: a machine learning perspective on return predictions	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	6
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	6
Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	6
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	6
Behavioural economics in the third decade of the XXI century: moving beyond ‘as if’ behavioural economics	6
Management team stability and financing constraints	6
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	6
Impacts of freight railway speed-up on market entry decisions of grain enterprises: evidence from China	6
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	6
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	6
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	6
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	6
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	6
Financial accessibility, industrial revitalization, and income mobility: evidence from rural China	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
Jointness versus independence in house purchase decisions of Indian households: head of household or family matters?	6
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	6
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	6
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	6
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	6
Correction	5
Flexible workspace and coworking pricing over time in NYC	5
Heterogeneous responses to boycott on services trade	5
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	5
The impact of locus of control on financial market participation	5
Do right-to-work laws reduce financial constraints of firms? Evidence from Michigan and Indiana companies	5
Panel kink threshold model with multiple covariate-dependent thresholds	5
Population ageing and household risk aversion	5
A note on the dynamic effects of supply and demand shocks in the crude oil market	5
The indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	5
The effects of temporary workers on firms’ financial performance: evidence from China	5
Can Chinese green bond play a long-run safe haven for different crude oil under multiple uncertainties? A comparative analysis with the U.S. green bond	5
Transition risk, physical risk and energy prices: evidence from wavelet analysis	5
Analyst forecasts following indictments of controlling shareholders: evidence from Korean chaebols	5
Time-varying causality between money supply growth and inflation: new evidence from Turkey	5
The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender differences in education and employment	5
The economic impact of universities: empirical evidence from Turkish provinces	5
The value of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the humidifier disinfectant scandal in Korea	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
Expected global financial uncertainty and mutual fund liquidity management: evidence from China	5
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	5
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	5
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
Does the decoupling of industry associations from administrative authorities promote enterprise innovation? Evidence from China	5
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	5
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	5
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	5
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	5
Exploring the role of parental influence on offspring honest behaviour: insights from an online study	5
Cross-occupational effects of immigration on native wages in the UK	5
Threats to ACA associated with temporary increase in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception	5
Business-cycle connectedness: the role of directional trade and financial linkages	5
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	5
Geopolitical risk and credit rating: evidence from North Korea’s threats	5
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	5
Too close to the sun: solar farms’ impact on housing prices at subtropical latitudes	5
The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method	5
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	5
Close but no cigar: does winning the game moderate or amplify failing to cover the spread in future NFL games	5
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	5
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	5
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	5
Corporate culture and product innovation: evidence from a firm survey	4
The impact of Social Security Fund shareholding on corporate ESG performance: evidence from China	4
State-ownership and bank presence in deforesting regions: evidence from the Amazon rainforest	4
Impact of different types of international sanctions on migration flows	4
Social proximity and urban innovation: a megalopolis perspective	4
Product availability and taste bias in discrete choice	4
Analysis of the correlation between China’s soybean futures prices and import prices	4
Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices	4
Historical pathogen prevalence, collectivism, and different forms of entrepreneurship	4
Investigating the persistence degree of environmental patent: application of panel SPSM-quantile unit root test	4
The impact of female directors’ international experience on managerial ability: evidence from Chinese listed firms	4
Spatial peer effect of retail stores’ digital transformation: an analysis using the survey data from China	4
Measurement of market power of agricultural industrial organizations in China: evidence from the Stochastic Frontier Approach	4
Influenza and labour investment efficiency	4
Impacts of COVID-19 on financial markets: from the perspective of financial stress	4
Supply chain finance and its impact on mitigating the maturity mismatch between corporate investment and financing: evidence from China	4
Time series properties of corporate credit rating transitions by regions and rating agencies	4
Covid-19 lockdown policy and market quality: evidence from European stock markets	4
Farmland idleness: a preventive strategy for migrant workers in flexible employment	4
Does environmental regulation affect inward foreign direct investment? Evidence from China	4
Economic globalization and fiscal performance	4
What drives the dynamic relationship between sovereign credit default swaps and exchange rates?	4
Accounting for change in income inequality in rural India, 1993–2011: a regression-based decomposition	4
Regime-dependent wheat price volatilities	4
Judicial informatization and digital transformation: evidence from the establishment of the internet court	4
Impact of carbon market prices on oil market fear across quantiles	4