Applied Economics

Article	Citations
Should the strongest serve first? Strategic ordering of servers in doubles tennis	146
Can governments sleep more soundly when holding international reserves? A banking and financial vulnerabilities perspective*	141
The impact of digital transformation on financial reporting clarity in the Chinese capital market	106
Extending policies to control groups or past periods in nonlinear difference in differences	99
The effect of Financial Development on Pro-Poor Growth: evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries	85
Family care, rural labour migration and land lease: A case study of Jiangxi Province, China	77
How do analyst recommendations on banks respond to monetary policy news? An application to the Eurozone	73
Foreign investors, rebalancing trades, and increases in U.S.-Japan stock market correlations	71
Forecasting cryptocurrencies log-returns: a LASSO-VAR and sentiment approach	66
Effect of religious attendance on the middle-aged worker’s wage in the United States: a possible causal connection	65
Female CEOs and employee gender diversity: evidence from Korea	63
Planning for potential increases in disbursements and risk of managed funds conditional on desired short-term performance levels	48
Investor sentiment and skewness risk premium	45
IMAX vs IVOL in China’s A-share market: predicting stock returns on a level playing field	44
Like a multicolored puzzle: decomposing temporary–permanent wage gap in Vietnam	43
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare utilization: evidence from medical claims data in South Korea	42
Period products during the pandemic: The impact of lockdown on period products usage	41
What can we learn from industry-level (aggregate) production functions?	39
The return of university reputation in job applications: evidence from a field experiment in China	37
Personal bankruptcy pilot and small business investment: evidence from China	34
Can online learning alter labor force attachment? Evidence from U.S. labor markets	34
Water rights and firm productivity: evidence from the water rights trading policy in China	34
The nexus between livelihood goals and livelihood strategy selection: Evidence from rural China	34
Powering profits: second-degree price discrimination for time-sensitive electricity consumers	34
Does double innovation-driven policy matter? Evidence from urban industrial agglomeration	33

Economic development program spending in the US: is there club convergence?	33
A novel factor model to determine recovery rates of bank credit towards local governments	31
Social capital and repayment behaviour: evidence from China household finance survey	31
Does income share influence the intra-household allocation of life insurance? An analysis based on the collective model and Chinese data	31
A reassessment of human capital convergence and its determinants: evidence from a cross-country analysis	31
Digital transformation and ESG performance: the mediating role of supply chain competition in Chinese listed firms	30
Does AI investment fuel the demand for foreign skilled labor? Insights from H-1B applications	30
How global supply chain strain shapes financial reporting behaviour	30
The effect of internet gap on bilateral export: evidence from an extended gravity model	29
The establishment of environmental courts and the ESG performance of heavy polluters: based on China’s Quasi-nature experiments	29
The Impact of Pollution Events on the Productivity of Related Industries:A Case Study of Cadmium-Contaminated Industry	29
The asymmetric and dynamic effects of oil price shocks and geopolitical risks on carbon prices in China	28
Correction	28
Religion in the labor market: evidence from India	27
Global value chain participation and economic growth in Africa	27
Contaminated trade: the scandal-driven disruption of 2011 lean meat powder incident on pork imports of China	27
Immigration, migrant international cash transfers, backward-externality of emigrant human capital, and total factor productivity in Africa	27
The importance of cash during an economic shock	26
How does earnings management affect corporate green innovation? Evidence from China	26
Geography, institutions, and entrepreneurship: a new international perspective	26
Global supply chain pressure and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	26
More dishonesty, lower employment?	26
Pro-environment consumer behaviour and electric vehicle adoptions: a comparative regional meta-analysis	25
Five number summary approach to functional ARCH for high-frequency intraday volatility	25
Greening tax system, corporate internal control and financial performance	25
Green energy, financial growth, natural resources and technological development: the key driving forces to trigger the economic development	25
Does global value chain participation induce economic growth? Evidence from panel threshold regression	25
How specialized urban ecosystems enhance firm export resilience: the amplifying role of firm AI adoption	25
The role of customer and expert ratings in a hedonic analysis of French red wine prices: from gurus to geeks?	25
Exploring fiscal policy spillovers and economic growth in the mena region: a spatial econometric analysis	25
The impact of social insurance contribution collection system reform on labour share: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	25
China’s agricultural trade networks and its influencing factors	24
Are there any safe haven assets against oil price falls?	24
Politeness as an economic signal in C2C markets: evidence from Korea and Japan	24
Can FinTech adoption alleviate energy poverty? Evidence from Chinese households	24
The impact of economic policy uncertainty and financial development on the sensitivity of corporate cash holding to cash flows	23
Monetary policy and financial stress: a multi-method causal analysis	23
Female CEOs and earnings management: examining risk aversion versus social identity theories	23
Estimates of Trade Based Money Laundering within the European Union	23
Does public data openness curb insider trading? Evidence from China	23
Can heritage protection promote local consumption? Evidence from National Key Cultural Relics protection Units in China	22
Fiscal policy and long-run inflation dynamics: evidence from a major emerging market economy*	22
Better city, better life: smart city policy and corporate ESG performance	22
The impact of extreme heat on rural household development capability: evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey	22
Household income and tourism expenditure: an unconditional quantile regression approach	22
How does financial literacy affect farmers’ agricultural investments? A study from the perspectives of risk preferences and time preferences	21
Benefits of having alumnus: executive alumni networks and firm resilience	21
Voluntary environmental regulation and carbon information disclosure: evidence from the green factory certification in China	21
Revisiting performance feedback: aspiration levels, underlying potential, and risk-taking behavior	21
Social cost of carbon and the potential for forest carbon credits	21

How does sci-tech finance influence cross-regional investment? Evidence from China’s pilot reform	21
Growing with inequality: a DSGE model with heterogeneous human capital and endogenous economic growth	21
The influence of clan culture on the accounting information quality: evidence from privately listed firms in China	21
The inconvenient truth of problemistic search: real earnings management	21
Paid family leave and occupational mobility	21
Choose the school, choose the performance: new evidence on determinants of students’ performance in eight European countries	21
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 trade	21
Confinement policies: controlling contagion without compromising mental health	20
The use of the tail dependence function for high quantile risk measure analysis: an application to portfolio optimization	20
Spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of marginal abatement cost of carbon dioxide emissions in China’s logistics industry	20
Regional innovation capability, environmental degradation, and economic sustainable development in China: a Bayesian model averaging analysis	20
Factor distortions and carbon efficiency: the case of energy misallocation	20
The spread of COVID-19 in stock returns along global value chains	20
Do birds of the same feather flock together? The cultural geography of global housing price interaction	20
Does the second mouse get the cheese in the trap? Evidence from industry-level acquisition waves in China	20
Do green growth and technological innovation matter to infrastructure investments in the era of climate change? Global evidence	20
Some new evidence on economic freedom and income distribution	20
The impact of illegal fundraising on the household savings rate	19
Hierarchical and dynamic risk transmission mechanisms in Chinese systemically important banks	19
Why providing more information to parents may not always improve child educational outcomes: lessons from a study in China	19
Digital infrastructure and manufacturing spillover: evidence from the Asia-Pacific	19
Return comovement and price volatility: a study of the US dairy commodity futures markets	19
Does disaggregated renewable energy stimulate economic growth? The role of spatial effect	19
Does judicial reform affect firms’ short-term debt for long-term use? Evidence from China	19
The role of rural internet adoption in shaping consumption breadth and inequality: evidence from the Chinese Social Survey	19
Bilateral risk in savings and loan holding companies: an econophysics framework for analyzing network resilience	19
Vehicle Owners’ Corrective Behaviour in American Automobile Recalls	19
From knowledge to power: unpacking the mechanisms through which financial literacy reduces relative poverty in rural households	18
Smart contract tontines	18
Seizing the day: increasing entrepreneurial activity in the wake of resource windfalls through FDI, human capital, and democracy	18
How do entrepreneurs’ diverse political ties affect firm performance? New insights from Chinese private firms	18
Do positional concerns trigger entrepreneurial decisions? – Evidence from survey experiments	18
Gender Social Norms and Gender Gap in Math: Evidence and Mechanisms	18
Dimming down in retirement: the impact of retirement on energy expenditure	18
Retail broker trading restrictions and market liquidity: an examination of GameStop	18
How does the minimum wage increase the incomes of low-income residents?	18
Social insurance contributions and corporate financialization: evidence from China’s social insurance law	18
Coordination of risk aversion in green supply chains with online-offline competition	18
Independent block institutional investors with long-term horizons and earnings forecast errors by financial analysts	18
Outlier-robust unit root tests for score-driven models: critical values and applications	18
The impact of internet usage on farmers’ access to agricultural mechanization services in rural China	17
The employment effects of local government debt governance: evidence from China	17
Life-cycle decisions and general equilibrium in the heterogeneous-agent OLG economy	17
Common factors and interbank connectedness: insights from quantile and frequency analyses	17
The spatial effect of airport proximity on house prices: a quantile regression analysis for the New Zealand market	17
Covid-19 and Firms’ Stock Price Growth: The Role of Market Capitalization	17
The economic costs of award revocation: evidence from the National Civilized City Award campaign	17
Understanding the impact of China’s dual policies on household purchases of new energy vehicles	17
Subjective cost of credit, access to financial services, and household well-being	17
E-commerce programme, labour allocation and gender inequality: evidence from rural China	17
Is NIMBY inevitable? An empirical exploration of determinants of public attitudes towards unwanted facilities using nationally representative data in China	17
Geographical indications and organic labels: complements or substitutes? - the case of online rice consumption in China	16
Reducing unhealthy consumption while balancing health inequality: the dual effects of explicit sugar taxes	16
Integrating ESG and innovation: the path to ambidextrous and profitable corporate strategies	16
Ex-dividend day price and volume: the case of cum-ex trading	16
Subsidy push or market pull? A policy response of venture capital investment to the Belt and Road Initiative	16
Lap-time dispersion as an aspect of within-race competitive balance in Formula One	16
Research on the empowering effect of digital economy development on the green economic efficiency– empirical evidence from 285 Chinese cities	16
The spillover effect of customers’ management tone on supply chain: Based on suppliers’ provision of trade credit	16
Tax incentive uncertainty and corporate tax avoidance: evidence from high-Tech enterprises in China	16
Falling behind schedule in a downward spiral: patients’ arrival timing, hospital length of stay and quality of care	16
Engaging parents with preschools: evidence from a field experiment	16
Assessing the accuracy of directional forecasts	15
Impact of social insurance law on total factor productivity: evidence from Chinese micro and small businesses	15
The impact of local government bonds on land-leasing behaviours and the economic consequences: evidence from the self-issuance reforms in China	15
The impact of data sharing on capital flows across regions	15
The impact of IMF conditionality on financial risk	15
Mothers’ education and son preference: evidence from China’s compulsory schooling laws	15
Winner takes all? Data assets and industry concentration	15
Industrial land efficiency, institutional friction and misallocation: evidence from China	15
Stock liquidity and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	15
Effects of monetary policy and deposit insurance on financial policy: Does ownership structure matter? Evidence from Chinese banks	15
Pollution charges and firms’ energy efficiency: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	15
How FinTech promotes the development of new quality productive forces: evidence from China	15
Does labour outsourcing reduce the cost of equity?	15
Changes in the structure of household expenditure in urban and rural China	14
Network infrastructure, digital technology innovation and enterprise performance: evidence from Chinese listed companies	14
Financial constraints for R&D and innovation: new evidence from a survey experiment	14
Fiscal decentralization, political budget cycles and countercyclicality	14
Correction	14

The silent majority under internet shock: digital infrastructure expansion and small enterprises’ output	14
Can the digital transformation of finance companies within business groups alleviate the financing constraints of enterprises within the same group?	14
The impact of computer-assisted learning on students’ cognitive skills: evidence from the “Three Supplies and Two Platforms” programme in China	14
Sustainability reporting and corporate environmentally sustainable investment	14
Quantile frequency connectedness between crude oil volatility, geopolitical risk and major agriculture and livestock markets	14
Healthcare access and human capital: evidence from Medicaid expansion	14
Inflation and income inequality linkages: do institutions matter?	14
FinTech and vertical integration in emerging economies: evidence from China	14
A Bayesian policy learning model of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions	13
Crude oil futures prices and foreign exchange markets	13
An economic analysis of maximally representative allocations	13
Impact of rural collective economy development on farmers’ governance of the human settlement environment in rural China	13
Will Disease awareness induce healthier behaviour?―A regression-discontinuity analysis of effects of myopia diagnosis among Chinese adolescents	13
Perceived value of environmental regulation and environmental investment strategy choices of heavily polluting enterprises	13
The effect of population ageing on the shadow economy: evidence from China	13
A New Keynesian Phillips curve estimation for a small open economy in the presence of structural changes: empirical evidence from Turkey	13
Dynamic complementarity between noncognitive and cognitive skills: evidence from adolescent development in India	13
Digital financial development and industrial structure upgrading: evidence from China and ASEAN-6	13
Comparison of suppliers and consumers’ choice factors in the online education market	13
Crowding-in or crowding-out? The mobilization effect of the European Investment Fund equity investments	13
Does financial inclusion improve energy accessibility in Sub-Saharan Africa?	13
Family firm succession and corporate philanthropy: evidence based on internal legitimacy and external relationship-specific assets	13
Implied volatility curve: an empirical study on Chinese SSE 50 ETF options	13
Women’s political empowerment, economic development, and democracy around COVID-19: a cross-country analysis	13
Beyond single-network assumptions: structural uncertainty and systemic risk in financial networks	13
Capital market opening up and corporate green technology innovation: Evidence from China’s Stock Connect program	13
Asset allocation via life-cycle adjusted PPI strategy: evidence from the U.S. and China stock market	13
Human capital formation and changes in low pay persistence	13
The impact of financial sanctions on monetary policy of target countries	13
The effects of government labour intervention on firm performance and innovation	13
The COVID-19 pandemic, lifetime consumption, and endogenous discounting under a Stone–Geary-type preference: given the passage of three years	13
Bridging retirement security gaps through digital financial inclusion: evidence from commercial retirement insurance in China	13
A Gaussian process model for capturing digital divide in mobile app usage: the role of habit formation	13
Do individuals with better health insurance system knowledge make better decisions about their health plans?	13
Board secretary succession and environmental information disclosure quality: evidence from heavily polluting firms in China	13
Tail risk and excess return of mutual funds: loss-premium balance hypothesis	13
Do remittances increase tax revenues in developing countries? Evidence from the threshold regression models	13
Is energy aid a powerful weapon to promote energy decarbonization transition? A global case	13
Research on credit scoring method matching the probability of default: evidence from Lending Club	13
The effects of central bank extraordinary measures on financial conditions: Evidence from Mexico	12
External audit and tax evasion: evidence from India	12
The impact of tax competition on urban-rural income gap: a local governance perspective	12
What is the nature of responses of energy security to shocks in the E7 countries? Fresh evidence by applying unit root tests	12
How cultural values shape fiscal spending multipliers: a worldwide analysis	12
How the spatial characteristics of green consumption demand affect corporate innovation: an empirical test based on geographic information data	12
Industrial robots and fintech: evidence from China	12
How does digital financial inclusion impact China: the case of carbon emissions	12
Contagion mechanisms under heterogeneous beliefs	12
Modelling and forecasting volatility in Bitcoin market: a stochastic conditional range-mixed data sampling model	12
State-owned shareholders and efficiency of labour investment: insights from private firms in China	12
Long-term effects of early-life famine on obesity: evidence from the China family panel studies	12
RMB appreciation and export product quality: the mediating roles of inward and outward foreign direct investment	12
Norm spillover? How environmental regulation in downstream industries affects upstream corporate environmental disclosure	11
Exchange rates and trade balance dynamics: a quantile regression analysis	11
Are Chinese live hog futures useful hedging tools?	11
Capital structure and product market performance: a Bayesian machine learning perspective	11
Media coverage and demand for directors’ and officers’ liability insurance—evidence from China	11
On the economic growth and environmental quality nexus in India	11
A cost-benefit analysis of the life-prolonging effect of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for persons with dementia and pain	11
Green trade policy and supply chain disruptions	11
Can intellectual property protection promote high-quality development of manufacturing? From the perspective of entrepreneurship	11
Data element sharing and manufacturing-service integration: evidence from China	11
Health literacy and education: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing	11
Can public data openness enhance corporate trade credit in China?	11
How do countries benefit from participating in the global value chain? A comprehensive panel analysis of heterogeneity in GVC impacts	11
Valuing American strangle options via double barrier first-touch digitals	11
The effect of government subsidies on firms’ innovation performance: does subsidy continuity matter?	11
Doing well while doing good: ESG ratings and corporate bond returns	11
Spillover Adjusted Lorenz Curves and the erosion of progressive transfers policies: evidence from a Chilean VAT rebate	11
Measuring consensus in risk narratives of financial systems	11
Do high-skilled migrants facilitate entrepreneurship? Evidence from local talent policies in China	11
Effects of Covid-19 on the BIST 100 network structure	11
Care or cash: how the relaxation of birth control policies reshaped grandparents’ labour supply	11
COVID-19 adaptive strategy and SMEs’ access to finance	11
Asymmetries of oil price shocks and monetary policy in China	11
How can farms constrained by resource endowment improve misallocation? Evidence from China	11
Stillness and non-action: Can indigenous religious traditions curb corporate market monopolies? Evidence from eastern China	11
Navigating trade policy uncertainty: Conservatism in cash holding and investment	11
From ESG uncertainty to cash holding: the pathway through environmental expenditures	11
The impact of digitalization on the division of labour in enterprises- evidence from China	11
Does the internationalization of enterprises affect the choice of auditors?	11
Enrollment in public pension program and household land transfer behaviour: Evidence from rural China	11
Does migration experience reduce villagers’ social capital? Evidence from rural China	11
Economic uncertainty, monetary policy, and global commodity price dynamics: the role of “China factors”	11
Bankruptcy law enforcement and corporate digital transformation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	11
Miserable or lucky? Aid targeted to the financial sector	11
Portfolio diversification possibilities of cryptocurrency: global evidence	11
Transportation infrastructure, market integration and corporate innovation	11
Analyst recommendations, acquirer’s valuation, and M&A performance: evidence from China	10
Structural imbalance when deploying machines: do robots intensify Baumol’s disease?	10
Regional income divergence and economic development in Africa: is Kuznets right?	10
More words but less investments: Executives with financial backgrounds and the firm’s strategic digital transformation—Evidence from China	10
Are there lasting impacts of China’s anti-poverty program? A synthetic control analysis	10
China’s inflation forecasting in a data-rich environment: based on machine learning algorithms	10
Utility foundation of a Cobb-Douglas demand function with more than two attributes, consumer surplus and social welfare computation	10