Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	105
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	64
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	52
Economic consequences of tax director departure	46
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	42
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	40
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	38
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	31
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	30
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	28
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	26
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	25
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	24
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	23
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	20
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	20
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	19
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	18
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	18
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	18
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	18
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	17
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	17
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	17
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	16

Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	15
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	15
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	15
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	14
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	14
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	14
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	14
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	14
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	14
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	14
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	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	13
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	13
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	13
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	13
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	13
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	13
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	13
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	13
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	12
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	12
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	12
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	12
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	11
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	11
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	11
The effect of oil uncertainty shock on real GDP of 33 countries: a global VAR approach	11
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	11
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	11
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	11
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	11
State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball	11
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	11
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	11
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	10
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	10
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	10
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	10
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	10
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	10
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	10
Sextortion and corruption	10
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	10
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	10
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	10
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	10
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	10
Correction	10
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	10

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	10
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	9
Quantitative easing and systemic risk in the post-Lehman era	9
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	9
Transparency and stock price informativeness: evidence from a natural experiment in China	9
Cross-border capital flows and stock market returns: a multi-channel analysis based on an ANN-RRMIDAS model	9
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	9
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	9
The relationship between foreign and domestic employment of multinationals: evidence on the role of factor substitution	9
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	9
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	9
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	9
Health perception biases and risky health behaviours in China	9
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	9
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	8
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	8
The impact of non-local human capital on local wages: exploring daily inflow of non-local human capital and its impact on local wages	8
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	8
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	8
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	8
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	8
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	8
Turnout in the time of corona: evidence from the legislative elections in Korea	8
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	8
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	8
Who understands the US housing market?	8
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	8
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	8
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
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	7
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	7
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	7
Transition risk, physical risk and energy prices: evidence from wavelet analysis	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
Office spaces and urban costs	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	7
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	7
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	7
Financial hardship and depression experienced by pre-retirees during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mitigating role of stimulus payments	7
Social media discussion and the market reaction to earnings announcements: evidence from China	7
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	7
Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	7
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	7
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	7
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	7
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	7
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	7
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	7
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	7
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	7
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	6
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	6
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	6
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	6
Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	6
Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	6
Learning about supply chain risk and firm performance: evidence from a language model	6
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	6
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	6
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	6
Impacts of freight railway speed-up on market entry decisions of grain enterprises: evidence from China	6
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	6
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	6
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	6
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	6
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	6
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	6
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	6
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	6

Nonlinear impacts of information and communications technology investment on industrial structure upgrading: the role of marketization	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
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	6
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	6
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	6
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	6
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	6
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	6
Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	6
Management team stability and financing constraints	6
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	6
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	5
The effects of temporary workers on firms’ financial performance: evidence from China	5
The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method	5
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	5
Understanding the challenges of community supported agriculture in Malaysia: farmers’ perspectives	5
Does the decoupling of industry associations from administrative authorities promote enterprise innovation? Evidence from China	5
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	5
Do right-to-work laws reduce financial constraints of firms? Evidence from Michigan and Indiana companies	5
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	5
How does China’s new budget law affect the pricing of local government bonds?	5
The effects of the Iberian exception mechanism on wholesale electricity prices and consumer inflation: a synthetic-controls approach	5
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
The impact of climate policy on the risk contagion in China’s stock markets	5
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	5
Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers	5
Time-varying causality between money supply growth and inflation: new evidence from Turkey	5
The indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	5
Fertility opportunities and female executives’ career development: evidence from the two-child policy in China	5
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
The spectre of terrorism and the stock market	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
US–China trade war and key digital technology innovation of Chinese enterprises	5
Jointness versus independence in house purchase decisions of Indian households: head of household or family matters?	5
Are socially responsible investment funds seasonal?	5
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	5
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	5
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	5
Government accounting supervision and ESG performance	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender differences in education and employment	5
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities	5
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	5
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	5
Evolution of China’s inter-industry radiation: an application of multi-spatial convergent cross-mapping approach	5
Talented managers, bank dividend policy and policy uncertainty	5
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	5
Correction	5
Heterogeneity in the nominal exchange rate response to oil price shocks in oil-exporting countries: a new episode of the ‘fear of floating’?	5
Forecasting RMB exchange rate volatility: do time-varying higher moments and time-varying risk aversion help?	5
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	5
How has Tesla’s entry affected China’s electric vehicle market?	5
How does non-market economy structure work as a trade barrier?	4
A note on the dynamic effects of supply and demand shocks in the crude oil market	4
The discouragement rate: an index of discouragement-induced hardship	4
Heterogeneous responses to boycott on services trade	4
Accounting for change in income inequality in rural India, 1993–2011: a regression-based decomposition	4
Finding hidden structure of sparse longitudinal data via functional Eigenfunctions	4
The asymmetric impacts of international portfolio flows on Australian dollar returns	4
Party school CEO and credit ratings: evidence from Chinese state-owned-enterprises	4
Spatial peer effect of retail stores’ digital transformation: an analysis using the survey data from China	4
Is inventory performance helping to improve SME credit ratings? The moderating role of supply chain concentration	4
Product availability and taste bias in discrete choice	4
Is religiosity distance a driver of trade in environmental goods?	4
Multifactor Keynesian models of the long-term interest rate	4
Impact of carbon market prices on oil market fear across quantiles	4
Climate change disclosure and stock price informativeness, evidence from China	4
Too close to the sun: solar farms’ impact on housing prices at subtropical latitudes	4
Does education reduce the tendency to give the ‘No-opinion’ response in surveys? Findings from Turkey	4
Population ageing and household risk aversion	4
Expenditure elasticity and consumption inequality in rural China	4
Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices	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
Farmland idleness: a preventive strategy for migrant workers in flexible employment	4
The impacts of public healthcare insurance financing on healthcare expenditure in Japan: empirical evidence using the ARDL bounds testing approach	4
Regime-dependent wheat price volatilities	4
Investments in human talent in the Age of AI: the impact of ChatGPT on search volume for coding education platforms	4
Covid-19 lockdown policy and market quality: evidence from European stock markets	4
Economic globalization and fiscal performance	4
Social security contributions, financing constraints and demand for higher audit quality-evidence from China	4
Public data accessibility and analyst earnings forecast accuracy: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	4
Macroprudential policy and interest rate spillovers	4
Strength concealed by weakness in China’s credit markets: comparing the impacts of creditworthiness vs. rent-seeking on loan access	4
Corporate culture and product innovation: evidence from a firm survey	4
Does the construction of smart cities promote urban green innovation? Evidence from China	4
Historical pathogen prevalence, collectivism, and different forms of entrepreneurship	4
Extreme temperature and gendered labour in manufacturing: evidence from China	4
Time series properties of corporate credit rating transitions by regions and rating agencies	4
Modelling maize price volatility in sub-Saharan Africa: a GARCH-X approach	4
Do firms release boilerplate CSR reports to meet legitimacy requirements?	4
Investigating the persistence degree of environmental patent: application of panel SPSM-quantile unit root test	4
Impact of price and regional factors on the word-of-mouth in the food delivery sector	4