Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	70
Economic consequences of tax director departure	58
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	51
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	48
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	46
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	36
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	32
State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball	32
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	27
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	27
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	26
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	24
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	22
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	22
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	22
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	21
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	21
Research on structural breaks in dependence: dynamic factor Copula models	21
Does public data openness matter for corporate social responsibility?	20
Mediating effect of infrastructure in the aid–growth relationship: evidence from China’s aid to Africa	20
The labour cost equivalent of the third sector a global perspective	19
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	19
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	18
How does talent introduction drive digital economy development? Evidence from Chinese cities	18
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	18

Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	18
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	18
Can digital literacy improve wage income? Evidence from the mechanisms of job matching and job development	17
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	17
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	16
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	16
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	16
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	16
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	16
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	16
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	16
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	16
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	16
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	15
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	15
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	15
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	14
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	14
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	14
Low-pay persistence in the early stage of the career in Italy	14
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	14
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	14
Creditor judicial protection and innovation in SRDI firms: a perspective from bankruptcy judicial specialization	14
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	14
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	14
Institutional unlocking and nonlinear leaps: the phased characteristics of agricultural total factor productivity in China	14
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	14
High-speed rail as a catalyst for clean technological change: evidence from China	14
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	13
The relation between volatility and investor sentiment: COVID-19 and the Russo-Ukraine and Gaza wars	13
Weather shocks and exports: evidence from the El Niño Southern Oscillation	13
Environmental credit evaluation and earnings management	13
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	13
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	13
The impact of teachers’ rural school experience on the academic performance of rural-origin students in urban schools	13
Are gender norms systematic to caste institutions? Evidence from North Indian villages	13
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	13
Geographic distance between ventures and technology search in serial entrepreneurship	13
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	13
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	12
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	12
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	12
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	12
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	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
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	12
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	12
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	12
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	12
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	12

Examining the risk-return linkage for cryptocurrency markets: new insights from a novel stochastic volatility in mean model with time-varying parameters	12
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
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	11
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	11
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	11
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	11
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	11
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	11
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	11
The impact of digital investment on the resilience of supply chains of listed Chinese enterprises	11
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	11
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	11
Investor attention and the ex-dividend day returns	10
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	10
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	10
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	10
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	10
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	10
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	10
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	10
Carbon border adjustment mechanism challenges and implications: the case of the United States	9
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	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
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	9
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	9
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	9
Forecasting market returns using machine learning: evidence from Random Forest models	9
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	9
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	9
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	8
Mixed-ownership reform and capital market performance of SOEs: empirical evidence from stock liquidity	8
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	8
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	8
Sextortion and corruption	8
Correction	8
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	8
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	8
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	8
Cross-border capital flows and stock market returns: a multi-channel analysis based on an ANN-RRMIDAS model	8
Finding distant partners: internet infrastructure and the geographical distribution of suppliers	8
The effects of administrative boundary adjustments on service industry agglomeration: evidence from “county-to-district” policy	8
Taming the tides: bank credit procyclicality in China’s unified national market	8
Who understands the US housing market?	8
Stock market reaction to multiple rounds of trade-in policies in the automobile industry: evidence from China	8
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	8
Eyes on the workforce: analyst coverage and employee treatment practices	8
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	8
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	8
Explainable machine learning for predicting zombie firms: a three-dimensional analytical framework	7
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	7
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	7
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	7
Learning about supply chain risk and firm performance: evidence from a language model	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	7
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	7
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	7
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	7
Social reputation and AI overreliance: an experimental test with ChatGPT-3.5	7
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	7
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	7
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	7
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	7
Hedge fund cliques and related-party transactions: evidence from China	7
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	7
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	7
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	7
Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	7
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	6
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	6
Impacts of freight railway speed-up on market entry decisions of grain enterprises: evidence from China	6
China’s monetary policy surprises and systemic risk in non-financial corporations: a perspective of risk decomposition	6
Machine learning-based customer segmentation: advances and applications in retail	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	6
Analyst forecasts following indictments of controlling shareholders: evidence from Korean chaebols	6

Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	6
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	6
Transition risk, physical risk and energy prices: evidence from wavelet analysis	6
Regret aversion, risk appetite, and the sustainability nexus in mean–variance analysis	6
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	6
Jointness versus independence in house purchase decisions of Indian households: head of household or family matters?	6
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	6
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
Hiring or training? Innovation and skills acquisition in the green transition	6
Financial accessibility, industrial revitalization, and income mobility: evidence from rural China	6
Unveiling Bitcoin market dynamics: a machine learning perspective on return predictions	6
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	6
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	6
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	6
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	6
Digital inclusive finance and Zipf’s law for firms of China: an investigation based on the full-sample data	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	6
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	6
Outward foreign direct investment in the artificial intelligence era: productivity enhancement versus asset-light expansion	6
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	6
Behavioural economics in the third decade of the XXI century: moving beyond ‘as if’ behavioural economics	6
Power structure, bargaining power, and corporate social responsibility in bilateral monopoly	6
Market-oriented reform and firms’ non-market strategies: evidence from the decoupling reform of industry associations in China	6
Who leads in price discovery? Trading frictions and return transmission in spot Bitcoin ETFs	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
Supplementary health Insurance and fraud victimization: evidence from critical Illness Insurance in China	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
Office spaces and urban costs	5
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities	5
Supply chain vertical common ownership and firm ESG performance	5
The impact of climate policy on the risk contagion in China’s stock markets	5
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	5
Biodiversity and financial corporation green bond price	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
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	5
The value of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the humidifier disinfectant scandal in Korea	5
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	5
Close but no cigar: does winning the game moderate or amplify failing to cover the spread in future NFL games	5
Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	5
A note on the dynamic effects of supply and demand shocks in the crude oil market	5
Foreign exchange rate shocks and stabilizing role of interbank markets: evidence from Turkey	5
Time-varying causality between money supply growth and inflation: new evidence from Turkey	5
Co-movement between stablecoins and news sentiment: a Wavelet Coherence analysis	5
Leveraging managerial collaboration attention for corporate high-quality green innovation	5
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	5
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	5
Breathing the burden: the impact of air pollution on respiratory health in South Korea	5
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	5
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	5
How does industry association impact micro and small enterprises’ innovation decisions? Evidence from China	5
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	5
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	5
Flexible workspace and coworking pricing over time in NYC	5
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on financial conditions and well-being: exploring the moderating influence of personality traits on life satisfaction	5
Business-cycle connectedness: the role of directional trade and financial linkages	5
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	5
Exploring the role of parental influence on offspring honest behaviour: insights from an online study	5
Management team stability and financing constraints	5
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	5
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	5
The impact of locus of control on financial market participation	5
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	5
Online video sharing and revenues during the pandemic. Evidence from musical stream data	5
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	5
Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers	5
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	5
The long-run relationship between labour force participation rate and unemployment rate for Türkiye: COVID-19 matters	5
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	5
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	5
Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap	5
The economic impact of universities: empirical evidence from Turkish provinces	5
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	5
Expected global financial uncertainty and mutual fund liquidity management: evidence from China	5
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	5
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	5
Instability in digital autocracies	5
The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender differences in education and employment	5
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	5
Does marriage shape gender roles attitudes? evidence from a pseudo-event study in China	5
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	4
Government accounting supervision and ESG performance	4
Making amends or downplaying? The impact of ESG incidents on boilerplate disclosure of CSR reports in Chinese companies	4
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	4
Time-frequency dynamics of financial market stress and global economic uncertainties: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Industrial park policy and regional industrialization in Indonesia	4
The impact of service trade policies on trade in goods 1	4
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	4
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	4
Understanding the challenges of community supported agriculture in Malaysia: farmers’ perspectives	4