Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	102
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	71
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	63
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	57
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	50
Economic consequences of tax director departure	47
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	42
Measuring cross-country heterogeneity in the value of patents based on the patent-trade relationship	41
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	38
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	37
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	34
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	31
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	28
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	26
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	26
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	25
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	24
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	22
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	20
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	20
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	19
Does economic power or leadership matter? The difference between male and female world leaders in managing pandemics	18
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	18
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	17
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	17

How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	17
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	17
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	16
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	15
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	15
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	15
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	14
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	14
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	14
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	14
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	14
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	14
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	14
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	13
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	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
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	13
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	13
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	13
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	13
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	12
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	12
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	12
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	12
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	12
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	11
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	11
The effect of oil uncertainty shock on real GDP of 33 countries: a global VAR approach	11
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	11
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	11
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	11
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	11
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	11
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	11
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	11
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	11
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	11
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	10
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	10
Sextortion and corruption	10
Correction	10
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	10
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	10
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	10
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	10
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	10
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	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
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	10
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	10

CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	10
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	10
Quantitative easing and systemic risk in the post-Lehman era	9
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	9
Health perception biases and risky health behaviours in China	9
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	9
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	9
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	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
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	9
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	9
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	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
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	9
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	8
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
Turnout in the time of corona: evidence from the legislative elections in Korea	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
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	8
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	8
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	8
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	8
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	8
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	8
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	8
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	8
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	8
Who understands the US housing market?	8
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	8
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	7
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	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
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
Transition risk, physical risk and energy prices: evidence from wavelet analysis	7
Social media discussion and the market reaction to earnings announcements: evidence from China	7
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	7
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	7
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	7
Office spaces and urban costs	7
Foreign exchange rate shocks and stabilizing role of interbank markets: evidence from Turkey	7
Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	7
How does China’s new budget law affect the pricing of local government bonds?	7
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	7
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	7
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	7
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	7
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	7
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	7
Financial hardship and depression experienced by pre-retirees during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mitigating role of stimulus payments	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	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
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
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	6
Why poverty is higher in Spain: a comparison with the Czech Republic	6
Is the transposition of EU directives homogeneous? An AI counterfactual example	6
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	6
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	6
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	6
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	6
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	6
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	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
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	6
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	6
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	6
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	6
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	6
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	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
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	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
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	6
Nonlinear impacts of information and communications technology investment on industrial structure upgrading: the role of marketization	6
The effects of the Iberian exception mechanism on wholesale electricity prices and consumer inflation: a synthetic-controls approach	5
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	5
The value of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the humidifier disinfectant scandal in Korea	5
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
Artificial intelligence and green development: Evidence from China	5
The impact of climate policy on the risk contagion in China’s stock markets	5
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	5
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	5
Do right-to-work laws reduce financial constraints of firms? Evidence from Michigan and Indiana companies	5
Does the decoupling of industry associations from administrative authorities promote enterprise innovation? Evidence from China	5
Talented managers, bank dividend policy and policy uncertainty	5
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	5
How has Tesla’s entry affected China’s electric vehicle market?	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 indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	5
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	5
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	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
The spectre of terrorism and the stock market	5
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	5
Population ageing and household risk aversion	5
US–China trade war and key digital technology innovation of Chinese enterprises	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
Correction	5
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	5
The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method	5
Government accounting supervision and ESG performance	5
Are socially responsible investment funds seasonal?	5
Fertility opportunities and female executives’ career development: evidence from the two-child policy in China	5
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	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
Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers	5
Understanding the challenges of community supported agriculture in Malaysia: farmers’ perspectives	5
Forecasting RMB exchange rate volatility: do time-varying higher moments and time-varying risk aversion help?	5
Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	5
Covid-19 lockdown policy and market quality: evidence from European stock markets	4
Macroprudential policy and interest rate spillovers	4
Time series properties of corporate credit rating transitions by regions and rating agencies	4
How do CEO’s green characteristics affect ESG performance?	4
Efficient market hypothesis in emerging stock markets: gradual shifts and common factors in panel data	4
Soft tax administration and company investment	4
Judicial informatization and digital transformation: evidence from the establishment of the internet court	4
Do firms release boilerplate CSR reports to meet legitimacy requirements?	4
Trade policy uncertainty and firm internationalization: evidence from Chinese text analysis	4
Regime-dependent wheat price volatilities	4
Extreme temperature and gendered labour in manufacturing: evidence from China	4
Expenditure elasticity and consumption inequality in rural China	4
Convergence of shadow economy across U.S. states	4
Impacts of COVID-19 on financial markets: from the perspective of financial stress	4
Multifactor Keynesian models of the long-term interest rate	4
Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices	4
Investments in human talent in the Age of AI: the impact of ChatGPT on search volume for coding education platforms	4
Party school CEO and credit ratings: evidence from Chinese state-owned-enterprises	4
The impacts of public healthcare insurance financing on healthcare expenditure in Japan: empirical evidence using the ARDL bounds testing approach	4
Product availability and taste bias in discrete choice	4
Covid-19 and life satisfaction across Europe	4
E-commerce development, time allocation and the gender division of labour: evidence from rural China	4
Farmland idleness: a preventive strategy for migrant workers in flexible employment	4
Spatial peer effect of retail stores’ digital transformation: an analysis using the survey data from China	4
Corporate culture and product innovation: evidence from a firm survey	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
Is inventory performance helping to improve SME credit ratings? The moderating role of supply chain concentration	4
Does the construction of smart cities promote urban green innovation? Evidence from China	4
Perceived economic effects of the war in Ukraine: survey-based evidence from Italian firms	4
Impact of carbon market prices on oil market fear across quantiles	4
The discouragement rate: an index of discouragement-induced hardship	4
Does climate risk affect the performance of companies in China?	4
State-ownership and bank presence in deforesting regions: evidence from the Amazon rainforest	4
Analysis of the correlation between China’s soybean futures prices and import prices	4
Modelling maize price volatility in sub-Saharan Africa: a GARCH-X approach	4
Accounting for change in income inequality in rural India, 1993–2011: a regression-based decomposition	4
The asymmetric impacts of international portfolio flows on Australian dollar returns	4