Applied Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Applied Economics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The roles of export diversification and composite country risks in carbon emissions abatement: evidence from the signatories of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement123
Innovation agglomeration and urban hierarchy: evidence from Chinese cities90
Digital economy value chain: concept, model structure, and mechanism82
How renewable energy reduces CO2 emissions? Decoupling and decomposition analysis for 25 countries along the Belt and Road82
The relationship between the Covid-19 media coverage and the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: a time-frequency wavelet analysis67
Empirical research on the blockchain adoption – based on TAM54
COVID-19 and cryptocurrency market: Evidence from quantile connectedness54
Information spillover and market connectedness: multi-scale quantile-on-quantile analysis of the crude oil and carbon markets45
The asymmetric impacts of oil price and shocks on inflation in BRICS: a multiple threshold nonlinear ARDL model44
Dynamic return and volatility connectedness for dominant agricultural commodity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic era41
Click it and buy happiness: does online shopping improve subjective well-being of rural residents in China?39
Do small farms prefer agricultural mechanization services? Evidence from wheat production in China39
High-frequency return and volatility spillovers among cryptocurrencies38
Can informal environmental regulation promote industrial structure upgrading? Evidence from China36
Rare earth and allied sectors in stock markets: extreme dependence of return and volatility35
Examining the differences in the impact of Fintech on the economic capital of commercial banks’ market risk: evidence from a panel system GMM analysis35
COVID-19 pandemic and global financial market interlinkages: a dynamic temporal network analysis35
The risk transmission of COVID-19 in the US stock market34
Does a green tax impact a heavy-polluting firm’s green investments?34
Fossil energy and clean energy stock markets under COVID-19 pandemic33
FINANCIAL RESILIENCE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE ROLE OF BANKING MARKET STRUCTURE33
Economic policy uncertainty and corporate digital transformation: evidence from China31
Can government low-carbon regulation stimulate urban green innovation? Quasi-experimental evidence from China’s low-carbon city pilot policy31
Regional digital finance and corporate investment efficiency in China31
Is small beautiful? Links between agricultural mechanization services and the productivity of different-sized farms30
A machine learning-based early warning system for systemic banking crises30
Institutional ownership and corporate risk-taking in Japanese listed firms29
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on abnormal returns of insurance firms: a cross-country evidence29
Crypto asset ownership, financial literacy, and investment experience29
The influence of foreign direct investment and trade opening on green total factor productivity in the equipment manufacturing industry28
Tail risk dependence, co-movement and predictability between green bond and green stocks28
Financial inclusion and poverty: evidence from Turkish household survey data28
Does increasing environmental policy stringency lead to accelerated environmental innovation? A research note28
Does higher education development facilitate carbon emissions reduction in China27
Renting-in cropland, machinery use intensity, and land productivity in rural China27
Urban-rural health insurance integration in china: impact on health care utilization, financial risk protection, and health status26
Impact of urban density on carbon emissions in China26
Valuing the greenhouse effect of political risks: the global case26
Can ESG Performance Mitigate Information Asymmetry? Moderating Effect of Assurance Services25
Financial contagion among COVID-19 concept-related stocks in China25
Would carbon tax be an effective policy tool to reduce carbon emission in China? Policies simulation analysis based on a CGE model25
On the relationships between CO2 emissions and their determinants in Romania and Bulgaria. An ARDL approach24
Impact of ESG score on financial performance of Indian firms: static and dynamic panel regression analyses24
The impact of digital inclusive finance on the spatial convergence of the green total factor productivity in the Chinese cities24
Infrastructure investment and economic growth quality: empirical analysis of China’s regional development23
The effects of geopolitical risk and economic policy uncertainty on dry bulk shipping freight rates23
ESG and systemic risk23
Relationship of service quality dimensions, customer satisfaction and loyalty in e-commerce: a case study of the Shopee App22
The skewness index: uncovering the relationship with volatility and market returns22
Financial infrastructure—total factor productivity (TFP) nexus within the purview of FDI outflow, trade openness, innovation, human capital and institutional quality: Evidence from BRICS economies22
Can FDI and ODI two-way flows improve the quality of economic growth? Empirical Evidence from China22
Financial inclusion and energy efficiency: role of green innovation and human capital for Malaysia22
Predicting French SME failures: new evidence from machine learning techniques22
Spillover and risk transmission in the components of the term structure of eurozone yield curve22
Board diversity and corporate social responsibility disclosure of multinational corporations21
Astonishing insights: emerging market debt spreads throughout the pandemic20
Do stringent environmental regulations help improve the total factor carbon productivity? Empirical evidence from China’s industrial sectors20
Does land renting-out increase farmers’ subjective well-being? Evidence from rural China20
Can corporate digital transformation alleviate financing constraints?20
Do political and social factors affect carbon emissions? Evidence from international data20
Digital finance and corporate innovation: evidence from China20
Speculation and food-grain prices19
China’s geopolitical risk and international financial markets: evidence from Canada19
Financial leverage and firm efficiency: the mediating role of cash holding19
Corporate social responsibility and firm-value: the role of sensitive industries and CEOs power in China19
Do global value chains enhance or slog economic growth?19
Economic development, technological progress, and provincial carbon emissions intensity: empirical research based on the threshold panel model19
Do financial inclusion and R&D matter? Exploring the effect of uncertainty on economic performance19
National fiscal rules and fiscal discipline in the European Union18
The role of high-frequency data in volatility forecasting: evidence from the China stock market18
The impact of a tournament approach on environmental performance: the case of air quality disclosure in China18
The role of peer effects on farmers’ decision to adopt unmanned aerial vehicles: evidence from Missouri18
Spillovers to sectoral equity returns: do liquidity and financial positions matter?18
COVID-19 restrictions in the US: wage vulnerability by education, race and gender18
The role of green technology on carbon emissions: does it differ across countries’ income levels?17
Does digitalization improve government effectiveness? Evidence from developing and developed countries17
The impact of COVID-19 on economic growth: evidence from a Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressive (BPVAR) model17
Measuring the Inclusive growth of rural areas in China17
Is COVID-19 Related Anxiety an Accelerator for Responsible and Sustainable Investing ? A Sentiment Analysis17
The Bitcoin options market: A first look at pricing and risk16
Does policy uncertainty affect economic globalization? An empirical investigation16
Media spotlight, corporate sustainability and the cost of debt16
Nexus between remittance outflows and economic growth in GCC countries: the mediating role of financial development16
The ICT, financial development, energy consumption and economic growth nexus in MENA countries: dynamic panel CS-ARDL evidence15
Government subsidies, ownership structure and operating performance of state-owned enterprises: evidence from China15
The impact of network infrastructure on enterprise digital transformation ——A quasi-natural experiment from the “broadband China” Strategy15
Electricity consumption in Australia: the role of clean energy in reducing CO2 emissions15
The effects of tax and fee reduction policy on mitigating shock of the COVID-19 epidemic in China15
Do pollutant discharge fees affect labor demand? evidence from china’s industrial enterprises15
Financial leverage and performance: the case of financial technology firms15
The impact of COVID-19 on gold seasonality15
Herding behaviour in Korea’s cryptocurrency market15
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: a case study based in Taiwan15
Are financial inclusion and bank stability friends or enemies? Evidence from MENA banks15
Working capital management, the market environment and corporate performance: evidence from China15
Accelerating the impact of financial literacy training programmes on household consumption by empowering women14
CEO’s educational background, economic policy uncertainty and investment-cash flow sensitivity: evidence from India14
Unemployment, global economic crises and suicides: evidence from 21 OECD countries14
Data assets, information uses, and operational efficiency14
Can blockchain innovation promote total factor productivity? Evidence from Chinese-listed firms14
Bitcoin price evolution versus energy consumption; trend analysis14
Financial Structure and Capital Allocation Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of China from 2005–201814
ASEAN-5 forex rates and crude oil: Markov regime-switching analysis14
Energy consumption, agriculture, forestation and CO2 emission nexus: an application to OECD countries14
What contributes to the growth of China’s embodied CO2 emissions? Incorporating the global value chains concept14
Institutional investor attention and stock market volatility and liquidity: international evidence14
Air pollution, human capital and corporate social responsibility performance: evidence from China14
Total factor productivity of Chinese industrial firms: evidence from 2007 to 201713
Connectedness and directional spillovers in energy sectors: international evidence13
The economic dependency of bitcoin security13
Can financial inclusion improve children’s learning outcomes and late school enrolment in a developing country?13
Transient and persistent technical efficiency and its determinants: the case of crop farms in Austria13
Long memory and efficiency of Bitcoin during COVID-1913
The life cycle environmental rebound effect of battery electric vehicles in China: a provincial level analysis13
Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods12
Global financial interconnectedness: a non-linear assessment of the uncertainty channel12
Conditional transmission of global shocks to emerging stock markets: evidence from the quantile connectedness network analysis12
The impact of fiscal policy on non-oil GDP in Saudi Arabia12
The nexus between debt structure, firm performance, and the financial crisis: non-linear panel data evidence from Japan12
The role of green production process innovation in green manufacturing: empirical evidence from OECD countries12
Do news headlines matter in the cryptocurrency market?12
New evidence on the convergence and regional clusters in China: a weighted continuous distribution dynamics approach12
Late-stage venture capital and firm performance: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises in China12
Air pollution and initial public offering underpricing12
Financial statement comparability and stock liquidity: evidence from China12
Boosting the choice of energy-efficient home appliances: the effectiveness of two types of decision support12
Does bank concentration stem from financial inclusion in Africa?12
The FDI-spawned technological spillover effects on innovation quality of local enterprises: evidence from industrial firms and the patents in China12
Evaluating the South Korean public perceptions and acceptance of offshore wind farming: evidence from a choice experiment study12
Social Media Sentiments and Firm Value11
Incidence of the Digital Economy and Frictional Unemployment: International Evidence11
Research on the influence of FinTech development on credit supply of commercial banks: the case of China11
Does improved transportation promote innovation? evidence from China’s cities11
Evaluating the scientific and technological innovation efficiency of universities in China: evidence from the global Malmquist–Luenberger index model11
Spillovers and portfolio optimization of agricultural commodity and global equity markets11
Understanding country risk assessment: a historical review11
Diversification and hedging strategies of green bonds in financial asset portfolios during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Bookmakers’ mispricing of the disappeared home advantage in the German Bundesliga after the COVID-19 break11
Does listed real estate behave like direct real estate? Updated and broader evidence11
Hedge and safe-haven attributes of faith-based stocks vis-à-vis cryptocurrency environmental attention: a multi-scale quantile regression analysis11
Spillovers on sectoral sukuk returns: evidence from country level analysis11
The peer effects of preschool: evidence from China’s middle school11
The impact of financial flexibility and directors’ academic experience on corporate R&D investments: a quantile regression approach11
Comparative analysis, cash transfers, household investment and inequality reduction in Togo10
Investment incentives and labor share: evidence from accelerated depreciation policy in China10
Quantile dependence of Bitcoin with clean and renewable energy stocks: new global evidence10
Corporate social responsibility and stock price crash risk: does analyst coverage matter?10
Digital financial inclusion and illegal fundraising in China10
Economic benefits of internet use for smallholder wheat farmers10
Does the extent of branchless banking adoption enhance the social and financial performance of microfinance institutions?10
Impact of Digital Financial Inclusion on Optimization of Employment Structure: Evidence from China10
Negative performance feedback and corporate venture capital: The moderating effect of CEO overconfidence10
The impact of electricity prices on European manufacturing jobs10
Can Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) effectively alleviate residents’ poverty by increasing household entrepreneurship? – an empirical study based on the China Household Finance Survey(CHFS)10
Are the shocks of EPU, VIX, and GPR indexes on the oil-stock nexus alike? A time-frequency analysis10
Openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth in Vietnam10
Sectoral employment analysis for Saudi Arabia10
COVID-19 pandemic and volatility interdependence between gold and financial assets10
Environmental expenditure, policy stringency and green economic growth: evidence from OECD countries10
Impact of gender on access to finance in developing countries10
Toward an empirical investigation of the long-term debt and financing deficit nexus: evidence from Chinese-listed firms10
COVID-19 pandemic, stock returns, and volatility: the role of the vaccination program in Canada10
The risks of cryptocurrencies with long memory in volatility, non-normality and behavioural insights10
The impact of AI on carbon emissions: evidence from 66 countries10
Assessing the impact of media sentiment on the returns of sukuks during the Covid-19 crisis10
How does the internet economy affect CO2 emissions? Evidence from China10
Quantile heterogeneous impact of R&D on firm growth in Chinese manufacture: how ownership, firm size and sectors matter?10
Pregnancy or motherhood cost? A comparison of the child penalty for adopting and biological parents10
Crude oil prices and macroeconomic activities: a structural VAR approach to Indonesia10
Effectiveness of industrial policy in supporting innovation: the role of internal and external corporate governance mechanism10
Media-based investor sentiment and stock returns: a textual analysis based on newspapers9
Modelling technical efficiency and technology gap in smallholder maize sector in Ethiopia: accounting for farm heterogeneity9
Effects of audit frequency, audit quality, and facility age on environmental compliance9
Can public medical insurance promote rural entrepreneurship? Evidence from China9
COVID-19 and implications for automation9
Do remittances cause Dutch Disease? A meta-analytic review9
Recalculating ... : How Uncertainty in Local Labour Market Definitions Affects Empirical Findings9
DETERMINANTS OF TAX CAPACITY AND TAX EFFORT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS9
The oil price crisis and contagion effects on the Canadian economy9
Does global value chain participation induce economic growth? Evidence from panel threshold regression9
Stock market liberalization and firm litigation risk——A quasi-natural experiment based on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect policy9
High-technology zones, misallocation of resources among cities and aggregate productivity: evidence from China9
Financial instability and environmental degradation: a panel data investigation9
The impact of the Russian-Ukraine war on the stock market: a causal analysis9
Distributional impact of COVID-19: regional inequalities in cases and deaths in Spain during the first wave9
The Effects and Counter-Effects of Unemployment and Stringency Responses to COVID-19: An International Analysis Using Simultaneous Equations Models9
Do ICT based extension services improve technology adoption and welfare? Empirical evidence from Ghana9
Life expectancy in nursing homes9
Do green growth and technological innovation matter to infrastructure investments in the era of climate change? Global evidence9
Does urbanization promote the urban–rural equalization of basic public services? Evidence from prefectural cities in China9
Does value-added tax reform in services accelerate enterprise upgrading? Micro evidence from China9
Borrowers’ credit risk factors, perception towards repayment interventions and moral hazard in loan delinquency: an investigation of Indian microfinance institutions9
Does media-based health risk communication affect commercial health insurance demand? Evidence from China9
The Impacts of Education on Domestic Violence: Evidence from China9
Opposite effects of returnee and non-local independent directors on firm’s environmental disclosure and performance9
Impact of grassland transfer on technical efficiency of livestock production in Northern China9
Bribe or die: gender differences in entrepreneurship in emerging markets9
A finite sample correction for the panel Durbin–Watson test9
The effect of customer concentration on supplier sustainable growth: evidence from China9
Does more maths and natural sciences in high school increase the share of female STEM workers? Evidence from a curriculum reform9
The impact of managers’ IT experience on the enterprises’ digital transformation: Empirical evidence from China8
Effects of free trade agreements on global value chain trade----a research perspective of GVC backward linkage8
Impact of farmer field schools on agricultural technology extension—evidence from greenhouse vegetable farms in China8
Evolutionary game analysis of green industry development in the age of sharing economy8
Enrollment in public pension program and household land transfer behaviour: Evidence from rural China8
Subsidies to microfinance institutions: how do they affect cost efficiency and mission drift?8
Analyzing the hysteresis properties and growth stability of renewable energy production of the U.S8
The impact of cooperative membership on family farms’ income: evidence from China8
Public subsidies for R&D and public sector pharmaceutical innovation8
Internet Penetration and Income Inequality: Evidence from the Chinese Young Labor Market8
Optimal portfolio financing selection in a capital-constrained supply chain with risk-averse members8
Market reaction to macroeconomic anouncements: green vs conventional bonds8
Will companies take the initiative in green technology innovation? Empirical evidence from listed manufacturing companies in China8
Directors and officers liability insurance and maturity mismatch: evidence from China8
Social capital during the coronavirus pandemic: the value of corporate benevolence8
Do environmental regulations affect firm financial distress in China? Evidence from stock markets8
Human resource practices, perceived employability and turnover intention: does age matter?8
Lending Club meets Zillow: local housing prices and default risk of peer-to-peer loans8
The impact of officials’ turnover on interregional capital flows: evidence from China8
Technological innovation on economic growth from the perspective of investment-oriented environmental regulations: considering the threshold effect of China human capital8
External profit pressure and operating efficiency: evidence from Chinese listed companies8
Auditing the environmental accountability of local officials and the corporate green response: evidence from China8
Board gender diversity, national culture, and water disclosure of multinational corporations8
Wage discrimination based on the country of birth: do tenure and product market competition matter?8
COVID-19 pandemic and the dependence structure of global stock markets8
Re-estimating the trade openness–carbon emissions nexus: a global analysis considering nonlinear, mediation, and heterogeneous effects8
Bankruptcy law, creditors’ rights and financing choices: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in India8
Foreign direct investment and institutional environment: the impact of bilateral investment treaties8
Doing well while doing good: ESG ratings and corporate bond returns8
The cross-section of Indian stock returns: evidence using machine learning8
Modelling dynamic connectedness between oil price shocks and exchange rates in ASEAN+3 economies8
The effect of institutional investors’ site visits: evidence on corporate cash holdings8
Predicting individual event attendance with machine learning: a ‘step-forward’ approach8
China’s functional upgrading in global value chains and its drivers: a multi-country chaining structural decomposition analysis8
Investor sentiment and the MAX effect: evidence from Korea8
International student-migrant flows and growth in low- and middle-income countries: brain gain or brain drain?8
Influence of unconventional monetary policy on agricultural commodities futures: network connectedness and dynamic spillovers of returns and volatility8
The link between public debt and investment: an empirical assessment from emerging markets7
Price dynamics of China’s housing market and government intervention7
Patterns of unconventional monetary policy spillovers during a systemic crisis7
Forecasts of growth in US residential investment: accuracy gains from consumer home-buying attitudes and expectations7
Financial development and tourism: a century of evidence from Germany7
Man versus machine: on artificial intelligence and hedge funds performance7
Efficiency of South African water utilities: a double bootstrap DEA analysis7
Predicting season ticket holder no-show behaviour: more nuanced evidence from Switzerland7
Financial development, FDI, and CO 2 emissions: does carbon pricing matter?7
Time-varying impacts of oil price shocks on China’s stock market under economic policy uncertainty7
Relationship of profitability of world’s top companies with entrepreneurship, competitiveness, and business environment indicators7
Spillover effects among crude oil, carbon, and stock markets: evidence from nonparametric causality-in-quantiles tests7
Not all in this together? Early estimates of the unequal labour market effects of Covid-197
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