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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Should the strongest serve first? Strategic ordering of servers in doubles tennis90
The Impact of Pollution Events on the Productivity of Related Industries:A Case Study of Cadmium-Contaminated Industry86
Can governments sleep more soundly when holding international reserves? A banking and financial vulnerabilities perspective*74
Female CEOs and earnings management: examining risk aversion versus social identity theories68
Fiscal policy and long-run inflation dynamics: evidence from a major emerging market economy*68
The impact of digital transformation on financial reporting clarity in the Chinese capital market60
Pro-environment consumer behaviour and electric vehicle adoptions: a comparative regional meta-analysis59
A reassessment of human capital convergence and its determinants: evidence from a cross-country analysis55
Better city, better life: smart city policy and corporate ESG performance55
How do analyst recommendations on banks respond to monetary policy news? An application to the Eurozone54
The effect of internet gap on bilateral export: evidence from an extended gravity model53
Immigration, migrant international cash transfers, backward-externality of emigrant human capital, and total factor productivity in Africa50
Social cost of carbon and the potential for forest carbon credits49
Effect of religious attendance on the middle-aged worker’s wage in the United States: a possible causal connection46
A novel factor model to determine recovery rates of bank credit towards local governments46
Female CEOs and employee gender diversity: evidence from Korea39
Does skill balancing prepare for entrepreneurship? Testing the underlying assumption of the jack-of-all-trades view37
Water rights and firm productivity: evidence from the water rights trading policy in China37
Foreign investors, rebalancing trades, and increases in U.S.-Japan stock market correlations36
Global supply chain pressure and stock price crash risk: evidence from China35
The establishment of environmental courts and the ESG performance of heavy polluters: based on China’s Quasi-nature experiments33
Does global value chain participation induce economic growth? Evidence from panel threshold regression33
Planning for potential increases in disbursements and risk of managed funds conditional on desired short-term performance levels33
The comparison of bilateral trade between China and ASEAN, China and EU: from the aspect of trade structure, trade complementarity and structural gravity model of trade32
Can environmental protection interview policy reduce air pollution? -A spatial difference-in-differences approach32
Investor sentiment and skewness risk premium29
Forecasting cryptocurrencies log-returns: a LASSO-VAR and sentiment approach28
The nexus between livelihood goals and livelihood strategy selection: Evidence from rural China28
Are there any safe haven assets against oil price falls?28
Extending policies to control groups or past periods in nonlinear difference in differences27
Family care, rural labour migration and land lease: A case study of Jiangxi Province, China26
Do green growth and technological innovation matter to infrastructure investments in the era of climate change? Global evidence26
Religion in the labor market: evidence from India26
Growing with inequality: a DSGE model with heterogeneous human capital and endogenous economic growth26
The effect of Financial Development on Pro-Poor Growth: evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries26
The impact of economic policy uncertainty and financial development on the sensitivity of corporate cash holding to cash flows25
Can online learning alter labor force attachment? Evidence from U.S. labor markets25
The importance of cash during an economic shock24
How does financial literacy affect farmers’ agricultural investments? A study from the perspectives of risk preferences and time preferences24
Five number summary approach to functional ARCH for high-frequency intraday volatility24
Time-frequency effect of investor sentiment, economic policy uncertainty, and crude oil on international stock markets: evidence from wavelet quantile analysis24
The asymmetric and dynamic effects of oil price shocks and geopolitical risks on carbon prices in China24
The return of university reputation in job applications: evidence from a field experiment in China23
Paid family leave and occupational mobility23
Period products during the pandemic: The impact of lockdown on period products usage23
What can we learn from industry-level (aggregate) production functions?23
Choose the school, choose the performance: new evidence on determinants of students’ performance in eight European countries23
Economic development program spending in the US: is there club convergence?23
Greening tax system, corporate internal control and financial performance23
The role of customer and expert ratings in a hedonic analysis of French red wine prices: from gurus to geeks?23
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization: evidence from medical claims data in South Korea23
The impact of social insurance contribution collection system reform on labour share: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China22
China’s agricultural trade networks and its influencing factors22
Global value chain participation and economic growth in Africa 122
Household income and tourism expenditure: an unconditional quantile regression approach21
Estimates of Trade Based Money Laundering within the European Union21
Green energy, financial growth, natural resources and technological development: the key driving forces to trigger the economic development21
Revisiting the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis of pretax income inequality and income tax rate20
The influence of clan culture on the accounting information quality: evidence from privately listed firms in China20
Outlier-robust unit root tests for score-driven models: critical values and applications20
The decline of part-time farming in Europe: an empirical analysis of trends and determinants based on Eurostat panel data19
Semiparametric estimation of a sample selection model with a binary endogenous regressor: the effect of chronicity in labour supply19
Sustainability reporting and corporate environmentally sustainable investment19
Pollution charges and firms’ energy efficiency: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China19
How do entrepreneurs’ diverse political ties affect firm performance? New insights from Chinese private firms19
The impact of internet usage on farmers’ access to agricultural mechanization services in rural China19
The use of the tail dependence function for high quantile risk measure analysis: an application to portfolio optimization19
Life-cycle decisions and general equilibrium in the heterogeneous-agent OLG economy19
The role of rural internet adoption in shaping consumption breadth and inequality: evidence from the Chinese Social Survey19
Ex-dividend day price and volume: the case of cum-ex trading19
The spread of COVID-19 in stock returns along global value chains18
Effects of monetary policy and deposit insurance on financial policy: Does ownership structure matter? Evidence from Chinese banks18
Can core competence help enterprises reduce the cost of debt? – empirical evidence based on text analysis18
Vehicle Owners’ Corrective Behaviour in American Automobile Recalls18
Confinement policies: controlling contagion without compromising mental health18
Covid-19 and Firms’ Stock Price Growth: The Role of Market Capitalization18
Does labour outsourcing reduce the cost of equity?18
Correction18
Gender Social Norms and Gender Gap in Math: Evidence and Mechanisms18
Does the second mouse get the cheese in the trap? Evidence from industry-level acquisition waves in China18
The spatial effect of airport proximity on house prices: a quantile regression analysis for the New Zealand market18
Do birds of the same feather flock together? The cultural geography of global housing price interaction18
The remittance-food security dynamics in Jamaica18
Inflation and income inequality linkages: do institutions matter?18
The spillover effect of customers’ management tone on supply chain: Based on suppliers’ provision of trade credit18
Industrial land efficiency, institutional friction and misallocation: evidence from China18
Some new evidence on economic freedom and income distribution17
Retail broker trading restrictions and market liquidity: an examination of GameStop17
The silent majority under internet shock: digital infrastructure expansion and small enterprises’ output17
Return comovement and price volatility: a study of the US dairy commodity futures markets17
Can the digital transformation of finance companies within business groups alleviate the financing constraints of enterprises within the same group?17
Bilateral risk in savings and loan holding companies: an econophysics framework for analyzing network resilience17
Engaging parents with preschools: evidence from a field experiment17
Does disaggregated renewable energy stimulate economic growth? The role of spatial effect16
Coordination of risk aversion in green supply chains with online-offline competition16
Dimming down in retirement: the impact of retirement on energy expenditure16
Stock liquidity and stock price crash risk: evidence from China16
Hierarchical and dynamic risk transmission mechanisms in Chinese systemically important banks16
The impact of local government bonds on land-leasing behaviours and the economic consequences: evidence from the self-issuance reforms in China16
The impact of data sharing on capital flows across regions16
Is NIMBY inevitable? An empirical exploration of determinants of public attitudes towards unwanted facilities using nationally representative data in China16
Why providing more information to parents may not always improve child educational outcomes: lessons from a study in China16
Financial constraints for R&D and innovation: new evidence from a survey experiment15
Network infrastructure, digital technology innovation and enterprise performance: evidence from Chinese listed companies15
Subsidy push or market pull? A policy response of venture capital investment to the Belt and Road Initiative15
Quantile frequency connectedness between crude oil volatility, geopolitical risk and major agriculture and livestock markets15
Board secretary succession and environmental information disclosure quality: evidence from heavily polluting firms in China15
The spillover effects of corporate giving in china: effects of enterprise charitable giving and exposure on enterprise performance15
The impact of illegal fundraising on the household savings rate15
Seizing the day: increasing entrepreneurial activity in the wake of resource windfalls through FDI, human capital, and democracy15
Does judicial reform affect firms’ short-term debt for long-term use? Evidence from China15
Assessing the accuracy of directional forecasts15
Does fiscal federalism matter for economic growth? Evidence from the United States15
The impact of RMB internationalization on the exchange rate linkages in China and ASEAN countries15
Changes in the structure of household expenditure in urban and rural China15
Tail risk dependence, co-movement and predictability between green bond and green stocks15
Smart contract tontines15
Impact of social insurance law on total factor productivity: evidence from Chinese micro and small businesses15
Geographical indications and organic labels: complements or substitutes? - the case of online rice consumption in China15
Mothers’ education and son preference: evidence from China’s compulsory schooling laws15
Do positional concerns trigger entrepreneurial decisions? – Evidence from survey experiments15
Research on the empowering effect of digital economy development on the green economic efficiency– empirical evidence from 285 Chinese cities15
The impact of digitalization on the division of labour in enterprises- evidence from China14
Media coverage and demand for directors’ and officers’ liability insurance—evidence from China14
The effect of localized social capital on new firm formation at the regional level: a spatial lag explanatory (SLX) application14
The effects of government labour intervention on firm performance and innovation14
Spatial autocorrelation patterns among US commercial banks: before, during and after the subprime mortgage crisis14
Capital-Market Liberalization and Controlling Shareholders’ Tunneling—Experimental Research in the Context of “Mainland China-Hong Kong Stock Connect”14
Economic uncertainty, monetary policy, and global commodity price dynamics: the role of “China factors”14
Do professors’ wages depend on students’ earnings?14
Human capital formation and changes in low pay persistence14
An economic analysis of maximally representative allocations14
Comparison of suppliers and consumers’ choice factors in the online education market14
Can public data openness enhance corporate trade credit in China?14
Implied volatility curve: an empirical study on Chinese SSE 50 ETF options14
A Bayesian policy learning model of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions14
Push or Pull? Measuring the labor supply response to the minimum wage using an individual-level panel14
The COVID-19 pandemic, lifetime consumption, and endogenous discounting under a Stone–Geary-type preference: given the passage of three years13
Empirical analysis of monetization and sovereign default: a logit and random forest analysis13
Bankruptcy law enforcement and corporate digital transformation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China13
Is energy aid a powerful weapon to promote energy decarbonization transition? A global case13
Do remittances increase tax revenues in developing countries? Evidence from the threshold regression models13
On the economic growth and environmental quality nexus in India13
Cross-ownership and tunnelling: evidence from China13
Crude oil futures prices and foreign exchange markets13
Capital structure and product market performance: a Bayesian machine learning perspective13
How does digital financial inclusion impact China: the case of carbon emissions13
Are Chinese live hog futures useful hedging tools?12
Does financial inclusion improve energy accessibility in Sub-Saharan Africa?12
Tail risk and excess return of mutual funds: loss-premium balance hypothesis12
The impact of tax competition on urban-rural income gap: a local governance perspective12
COVID-19 adaptive strategy and SMEs’ access to finance12
Salary inequality in young professors: evidence from public U.S. economic department12
Housing price and criminal crime in China: direct and indirect influence12
Capital market opening up and corporate green technology innovation: Evidence from China’s Stock Connect program12
Do remittances cause Dutch Disease? A meta-analytic review12
The effect of government subsidies on firms’ innovation performance: does subsidy continuity matter?12
The impact of financial sanctions on monetary policy of target countries12
Research on credit scoring method matching the probability of default: evidence from Lending Club12
Will Disease awareness induce healthier behaviour?―A regression-discontinuity analysis of effects of myopia diagnosis among Chinese adolescents12
Spillover Adjusted Lorenz Curves and the erosion of progressive transfers policies: evidence from a Chilean VAT rebate12
State-owned shareholders and efficiency of labour investment: insights from private firms in China12
A cost-benefit analysis of the life-prolonging effect of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for persons with dementia and pain12
A New Keynesian Phillips curve estimation for a small open economy in the presence of structural changes: empirical evidence from Turkey12
What is the nature of responses of energy security to shocks in the E7 countries? Fresh evidence by applying unit root tests12
Do individuals with better health insurance system knowledge make better decisions about their health plans?12
Women’s political empowerment, economic development, and democracy around COVID-19: a cross-country analysis12
Impact of rural collective economy development on farmers’ governance of the human settlement environment in rural China12
Navigating trade policy uncertainty: Conservatism in cash holding and investment11
Time-series momentum in individual stocks: is it there and where to look?11
Business strategy and stock price crash risk: international evidence11
How can farms constrained by resource endowment improve misallocation? Evidence from China11
Industrial robots and fintech: evidence from China11
Asset allocation via life-cycle adjusted PPI strategy: evidence from the U.S. and China stock market11
External audit and tax evasion: evidence from India11
Enrollment in public pension program and household land transfer behaviour: Evidence from rural China11
Does migration experience reduce villagers’ social capital? Evidence from rural China11
Transportation infrastructure, market integration and corporate innovation11
Family firm succession and corporate philanthropy: evidence based on internal legitimacy and external relationship-specific assets11
Norm spillover? How environmental regulation in downstream industries affects upstream corporate environmental disclosure11
The effects of central bank extraordinary measures on financial conditions: Evidence from Mexico11
Impact of oil demand and supply shocks on food-grain prices: a Markov-switching approach11
Does energy access matter for achieving inclusive growth? Insight from a global perspective11
Perceived value of environmental regulation and environmental investment strategy choices of heavily polluting enterprises11
Exchange rates and trade balance dynamics: a quantile regression analysis11
Contagion mechanisms under heterogeneous beliefs11
Health literacy and education: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing11
Measuring consensus in risk narratives of financial systems11
A Gaussian process model for capturing digital divide in mobile app usage: the role of habit formation11
Business strategy aggressiveness and firm innovation: evidence from listed companies in China10
Energy use and efficiency in Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector: a stochastic frontier analysis10
Digital technology transformation and corporate ESG performance: evidence from the “integration of informatization and industrialization” pilot zone10
α-returns to scale with quasi-fixed inputs: an application to Québec hospitals10
Revisit energy consumption, economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions links in transition countries using a new developed Quantile_on_Quantile approach10
Strategic wealth management for Chinese households: navigating liquid and illiquid assets for overseas education planning10
The impact of the China–US trade war on firms’ financial performance—Evidence from China10
The Effect of informal caregiving on caregivers’ healthcare utilization in China10
Relatively accurate but absolutely off: U.S. residents’ estimates of relative and absolute economic mobility10
Portfolio diversification possibilities of cryptocurrency: global evidence10
What drives currency connectedness? Evidence from the BRICS currencies10
Doing well while doing good: ESG ratings and corporate bond returns10
Heterogeneous trading of option implied volatility10
Breaking boundaries: the influence of social insurance collection system reform on corporate innovation strategies10
Heterogeneity of agents, transaction costs and oil price dynamics10
Farmland prices and the farming industry’s profitability in Australia10
Investigation of export-driving forces and trade potentials of the U.S. bourbon whisky industry10
The effect of implementation of the Stewardship Code on nonprofessional investors’ judgment and decision-making10
Technical standard regulations and firm markups: evidence from China10
Digital transformation of SMEs, action-oriented information disclosure, and enterprise value enhancement10
Spillover effects between China’s energy futures market and stock market under different market trends10
Leader-follower dynamics in real historical time: a Markovian test of non-linear causality between sail and steam (co-)development10
Excise tax incidence: the inequity of taxing obesity and beauty10
Life cycle stage as determinant of operational efficiency with implications for benchmarking10
CEO compensation for luck and skill and corporate governance in U.S. property-liability insurance firms10
How important are processing and ordinary exports for China’s employment performance?10
Impacts of founder management on the operational efficiency of enterprises in different regions in China10
The decline in public investment: ``social dominance’’ or too-rigid fiscal rules?10
Utility foundation of a Cobb-Douglas demand function with more than two attributes, consumer surplus and social welfare computation10
How different types of government payments and the elimination of direct payments affect farm productivity? Evidence from Kansas crop farms10
Correction10
Short-term impact of tropical cyclones in Madagascar: evidence from nightlight data10
Scaling up SMEs’ credit scoring scope with LightGBM10
From data accessibility to ESG excellence: a quasi-natural experiment10
Impact of social mindset of private entrepreneurs on enterprise resilience in environmental dynamism10
Corporate lobbying and tax avoidance10
Corporate uncertainty perception, innovation resilience and environmental performance: evidence from Chinese listed companies10
Research on the influence of equity incentive and internal control quality on company investment decision under the 14th five-year plan10
Conditional transmission of global shocks to emerging stock markets: evidence from the quantile connectedness network analysis10
How does the development of information technology impact overtime work among migrant workers? Evidence from China10
Hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ housing tenure choices in urban China: evidence from CMDS10
Improving business environments: a new approach to promote trade openness?10
Effects of Covid-19 on the BIST 100 network structure10
Impact of migration status on employment quality: causal empirical evidence for Tunisian migrants10
Nonlinear analysis of tertiary industry on trade globalization-environment nexus in Yellow River Basin in China: evidence from panel smooth transition regression9
Are there lasting impacts of China’s anti-poverty program? A synthetic control analysis9
Will companies take the initiative in green technology innovation? Empirical evidence from listed manufacturing companies in China9
Directors and officers liability insurance and maturity mismatch: evidence from China9
Do news headlines matter in the cryptocurrency market?9
Economic development, technological progress, and provincial carbon emissions intensity: empirical research based on the threshold panel model9
Asset prices, regime switches, and monetary policy: evidence from China9
Risk aversion, crop diversification, and food security9
China’s inflation forecasting in a data-rich environment: based on machine learning algorithms9
Cross-listing flows under uncertainty: an international perspective9
Does increasing environmental policy stringency lead to accelerated environmental innovation? A research note9
Influence of artificial intelligence applications on total factor productivity of enterprises—evidence from textual analysis of annual reports of Chinese-listed companies9
The impact of Smart city construction on labour spatial allocation: Evidence from China9
Analyst recommendations, acquirer’s valuation, and M&A performance: evidence from China9
Children’s school attendance, work, health and rainfall shocks in Ethiopia9
Does change in respondents’ attention affect willingness to accept estimates from choice experiments?9
ASEAN-5 forex rates and crude oil: Markov regime-switching analysis9
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