Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	64
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	54
Economic consequences of tax director departure	49
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	43
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	43
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	41
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	37
State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball	32
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	32
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	28
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	27
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	24
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	24
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	20
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	19
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	18
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	18
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	18
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	18
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	18
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	17
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	17
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	17
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	17
Does public data openness matter for corporate social responsibility?	17

Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	17
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	16
Research on structural breaks in dependence: dynamic factor Copula models	16
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	15
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	15
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	15
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	15
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	15
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	15
Mediating effect of infrastructure in the aid–growth relationship: evidence from China’s aid to Africa	14
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	14
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	14
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	14
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	14
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	14
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	14
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	14
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	14
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	13
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	13
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	13
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	13
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	12
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	12
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	12
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	12
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	12
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	12
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	12
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	12
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	12
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	11
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	11
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	11
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	11
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	11
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	11
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	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
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	11
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	11
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	11
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	11
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	10
Turnout in the time of corona: evidence from the legislative elections in Korea	10
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	10
The impact of non-local human capital on local wages: exploring daily inflow of non-local human capital and its impact on local wages	10
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	10
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	10
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	10

Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	10
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	10
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	10
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	10
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	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
Quantitative easing and systemic risk in the post-Lehman era	9
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	9
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	9
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	9
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	9
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	9
Sextortion and corruption	9
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	9
Who understands the US housing market?	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
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	9
Correction	9
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	8
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	8
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	8
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	8
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	8
Forecasting market returns using machine learning: evidence from Random Forest models	8
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	8
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	8
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	8
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	8
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	8
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	8
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	8
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	7
Finding distant partners: internet infrastructure and the geographical distribution of suppliers	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	7
Social reputation and AI overreliance: an experimental test with ChatGPT-3.5	7
China’s monetary policy surprises and systemic risk in non-financial corporations: a perspective of risk decomposition	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
Office spaces and urban costs	7
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	7
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	7
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	7
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	7
Social media discussion and the market reaction to earnings announcements: evidence from China	7
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	7
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
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	7
Foreign exchange rate shocks and stabilizing role of interbank markets: evidence from Turkey	7
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	7
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap	6
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	6
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	6
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	6
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	6
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	6
Jointness versus independence in house purchase decisions of Indian households: head of household or family matters?	6
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	6
Digital inclusive finance and Zipf’s law for firms of China: an investigation based on the full-sample data	6
Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	6
Outward foreign direct investment in the artificial intelligence era: productivity enhancement versus asset-light expansion	6
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	6
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	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
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	6
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	6
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	6
Management team stability and financing constraints	6
Impacts of freight railway speed-up on market entry decisions of grain enterprises: evidence from China	6
Heterogeneity in the nominal exchange rate response to oil price shocks in oil-exporting countries: a new episode of the ‘fear of floating’?	6
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	6

Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	6
Behavioural economics in the third decade of the XXI century: moving beyond ‘as if’ behavioural economics	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	6
Unveiling Bitcoin market dynamics: a machine learning perspective on return predictions	6
Supplementary health Insurance and fraud victimization: evidence from critical Illness Insurance in China	6
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	6
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	6
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	6
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	6
Learning about supply chain risk and firm performance: evidence from a language model	6
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	6
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	6
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
Machine learning-based customer segmentation: advances and applications in retail	6
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	6
How does China’s new budget law affect the pricing of local government bonds?	6
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
The indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	5
The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender differences in education and employment	5
Does the decoupling of industry associations from administrative authorities promote enterprise innovation? Evidence from China	5
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	5
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	5
The spectre of terrorism and the stock market	5
The effects of temporary workers on firms’ financial performance: evidence from China	5
Do right-to-work laws reduce financial constraints of firms? Evidence from Michigan and Indiana companies	5
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	5
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	5
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	5
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	5
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	5
Are socially responsible investment funds seasonal?	5
How does industry association impact micro and small enterprises’ innovation decisions? Evidence from China	5
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	5
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	5
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	5
Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	5
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	5
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	5
Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
Time-varying causality between money supply growth and inflation: new evidence from Turkey	5
The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method	5
Correction	5
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	5
Population ageing and household risk aversion	5
Analyst forecasts following indictments of controlling shareholders: evidence from Korean chaebols	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
Understanding the challenges of community supported agriculture in Malaysia: farmers’ perspectives	5
Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers	5
The effect of public data openness on enterprise cross-regional investment: evidence from China	5
Transition risk, physical risk and energy prices: evidence from wavelet analysis	5
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	5
Nowcasting domestic demand using a dynamic factor model: the case of Ireland	4
Forecasting RMB exchange rate volatility: do time-varying higher moments and time-varying risk aversion help?	4
Is religiosity distance a driver of trade in environmental goods?	4
Flexible workspace and coworking pricing over time in NYC	4
Social security contributions, financing constraints and demand for higher audit quality-evidence from China	4
The ecological footprint in Africa: identifying convergence clubs from 1970 to 2018	4
Economic globalization and fiscal performance	4
Investigating the persistence degree of environmental patent: application of panel SPSM-quantile unit root test	4
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
Judicial informatization and digital transformation: evidence from the establishment of the internet court	4
Climate change and firm productivity: the case of drought	4
Impact of carbon market prices on oil market fear across quantiles	4
Online video sharing and revenues during the pandemic. Evidence from musical stream data	4
Party school CEO and credit ratings: evidence from Chinese state-owned-enterprises	4
Threats to ACA associated with temporary increase in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception	4
Ownership concentration and bank stability in China	4
The impact of locus of control on financial market participation	4
How does non-market economy structure work as a trade barrier?	4
The impact of female directors’ international experience on managerial ability: evidence from Chinese listed firms	4
Finding hidden structure of sparse longitudinal data via functional Eigenfunctions	4
Historical pathogen prevalence, collectivism, and different forms of entrepreneurship	4
Farmland idleness: a preventive strategy for migrant workers in flexible employment	4
Measuring the speed of currency substitution	4
Spatial peer effect of retail stores’ digital transformation: an analysis using the survey data from China	4
State-ownership and bank presence in deforesting regions: evidence from the Amazon rainforest	4
Accounting for change in income inequality in rural India, 1993–2011: a regression-based decomposition	4
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities	4
Making amends or downplaying? The impact of ESG incidents on boilerplate disclosure of CSR reports in Chinese companies	4
The economic impact of universities: empirical evidence from Turkish provinces	4
Does education reduce the tendency to give the ‘No-opinion’ response in surveys? Findings from Turkey	4
How has Tesla’s entry affected China’s electric vehicle market?	4
Impact of price and regional factors on the word-of-mouth in the food delivery sector	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
Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices	4
Technology innovation and the duration of export competitiveness	4
Does big data application improve Chinese firms’ innovation: the role of talent accessibility	4
Supply chain finance and its impact on mitigating the maturity mismatch between corporate investment and financing: evidence from China	4