Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Computing optimal portfolios of multi-assets with tail risk: the case of bitcoin	84
Does risk disclosure influence mergers and acquisitions? A textual analysis	48
Transnational Banking Supervision, Distance-to-Distress and Credit Risk: the SSM Case	40
Education policy and R&D-based growth in an overlapping-generations model	39
Global maximal Sharpe ratios for active portfolios	36
The effect of investor protection on firm riskiness and performance during the COVID-19 economic crisis	32
The effects of the job retention programme during the Covid pandemic on the Chilean firms and households	31
Technical efficiency and complementarity of agroecological innovations in French West Indies banana production	29
Sukuk returns dynamics under bullish and bearish market conditions: do COVID-19 related news and government measures matter?	28
Intergenerational mobility of earnings in rural China	28
From FIT to FIP: assessing the impact of feed-in policies on renewable development in Germany	26
Spatial spillover effect of green finance on urban-rural income gap	26
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	26
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	26
Two ENR cost indexes react differently to labour conditions	21
Social pressure in football matches: an event study of ‘Remote Matches’ in Japan	20
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	18
Political governance and corporate investment efficiency in China	17
Profiting from growth: Trade, investment and the ASEAN-China technology gap	17
Does digital finance facilitate improvement in export product quality? Evidence from China	17
Investigating the feasibility of the double-play strategy: evidence from Hong Kong’s speculative attacks	16
The asymmetric impact of tax burden structures on the shadow economy: a panel analysis of old and new European Union countries	15
CEOs’ educational background and investments in software	15
The effect of education on economic institutions	15
Two-Tier Earnings Structures and labour Market Reform	14

Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	13
Mobility and economic activity around the world during the Covid-19 crisis	13
Clean cryptocurrency and green assets: a quantile connectedness approach	13
Occupational sorting and the transmission of self-employment between generations	13
The impact of business environment on corporate default risk: evidence from China	13
Free shipping	12
Can fintech improve audit efficiency? Empirical evidence from audit fees and corporate governance	12
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	12
Delta-hedged gains of SSE 50 ETF options	12
How does regional religiosity influence corporate innovation? New evidence from China	11
The economic costs of obesity: evidence from China	11
Forecasting betas with random forests	11
Competitor risk disclosure and firm M&A activities: evidence from textual analysis	11
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	11
Connected to risk: CEOs’ hometown connections and firm-level political risk in China	11
Regional financial development, spatial spillover and capitalization of pig breeding	10
Can ‘breaking the rigid payment’ lead to better household financial asset allocation? Evidence from China’s financial regulation	10
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	10
Timber harvesting in New Zealand	10
Politics, state policy, and lottery draw sales during the pandemic	10
Pricing strategy for products with consumption synergy	10
Kinship intensity and ESG performance: the role of socioemotional wealth in family businesses	10
Are CEO characteristics associated with income smoothing?	10
Graduate education and enterprise innovation	10
Reasons for the heterogeneity of regional innovation policy on innovation output: considering the influence of policy sentiment	9
Does artificial intelligence improve the quality of export products? Evidence from China	9
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	9
Decomposing Okun’s law: evidence for the United States, 1970–2021	9
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	9
Digital transformation and corporate Labor costs for ordinary employees	9
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	9
Market integration and consumer spending	9
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	9
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on carbon emissions: causal evidence from China	8
Japan’s unemployment rate hike amid the COVID-19 pandemic – why was it so mild?	8
The externality of her retirement – evidence from China	8
Which is the most effective innovation protection method for different types of product innovation?Evidence from South Korean manufacturing firms	8
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	8
Can ESG improve the predictability of high-frequency volatility in the foreign exchange market?—A new high-frequency volatility model with long memory and asymmetry	8
Distributional effects of gasoline tax in Brazil	8
Global shocks and local connectedness: evidence from dynamic tail risk interdependences among Chinese regional carbon markets	8
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	8
Commodity exports and educational inequality	8
Taking logarithm when the independent variable contains zeros in regression analysis: a new approach	8
The impact of education on time spent in religious activities: evidence from Turkey	8
Comparison of GMM and MD estimators for a panel regression model with endogenous regressors and an AR(1) disturbance	8
Media bias with asymmetric media quality	8
World prospers China: Chinese private firms with lending before the China–United States trade war	7
Applying the LightGBM model and SHAP interpretation to understand the urban land price index and its influencing factors in China	7
Unionization and income inequality in Canada	7

Do tall people indeed have leadership skills? Evidence from 12 th graders	7
The impacts of COVID-19 on the dependence structure of the stock market	7
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	7
A new high-frequency volatility forecasting model for crude oil market—evidence from RGARCH-CARR-MIDAS model	7
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	7
Changes of China’s soybean import market power and influencing factors	7
Navigating the green transition: the influence of energy volatility on green and sustainable ETFs	7
Cost-efficiency and bank profitability during health crisis	7
The contribution of Johan Cruyff to success and stadium attendance at Feyenoord	7
Forecasting VIX using realized EGARCH model with dynamic jumps	7
Disclosure delay and financial distress prediction: based on Chinese annual reports disclosure system	6
Economic impact of natural disasters: a myth or mismeasurement?	6
Impact of fiscal decentralization and ethnic diversity on health outcome: an empirical evidence from Indonesia	6
What forces children away from home? Evidence from Uganda	6
Public sector jobs and subjective well-being in China	6
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	6
Negative social effects of firms’ digital transformation – a perspective based on labour income shares	6
Government environmental initiatives, managerial environmental attention, and corporate ESG performance: from the perspective of attention-based View	6
Air pollution, cognitive capacity, and borrowing behaviours: evidence from an online peer-to-peer platform	6
Cryptocurrencies and capital flows: evidence from El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin	6
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	6
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	6
Financial strain and loneliness in older adults	6
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	6
The impact of Right-to-Work laws on the financials of hospitals: evidence based on Michigan and Indiana laws	6
The role of opportunity versus effort in shaping long-term well-being in China	6
The middle income trap: look closer and you’ll find it, but maybe not where you expected	6
COVID-19’s impacts on the Korean stock market	6
Does digital finance promote entrepreneurship? Evidence from city-level and household-level data in China	6
ESG ratings and corporate competitive strategy: evidence from China	6
Do agricultural subsidies raise the income of rural households effectively? Evidence from rural China	6
Revisiting income-related health inequality in China: changes before and after the 2009 healthcare reform	6
Can digital transformation reduce the cost of debt capital? Empirical analysis based on the perspective of financial situation	6
Sequential Monte Carlo estimation for Present-Value model	5
Promoting small businesses’ access to credit and innovation through a reform of the bankruptcy system: evidence from Slovenia	5
Abnormal stock returns of Greek banks during COVID-19: an event study	5
Does economic power or leadership matter? The difference between male and female world leaders in managing pandemics	5
Do exports of creative goods lead to economic growth?	5
The great expansion of 2019 and the delinquency rates of blacks and hispanics	5
The effect of firm-level climate change risk on tax avoidance: evidence from China	5
Corporate name change: the effect of the firm’s shareholder distribution	5
Baltic dry index and global economic policy uncertainty: evidence from the linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests	5
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	5
Are unionized firms more likely to use nonbank loans?	5
Directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and corporate digital transformation	5
How dynamic have the returns to education been with technological change? A case study from 1998 to 2021	5
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	5
Dynamic conditional correlation between green and grey energy ETF markets using cDCC-MGARCH model	5
An evaluation of the effectiveness of three early-warning models on financial indexes	5
Firm gender labour supply elasticities and sources of separation: evidence from Chile	5
Flight-to-quality or not? Evidence from China’s green bond and green equity markets during COVID-19 crisis	5
The effectiveness of English Medium Instruction in primary education: evidence from Ethiopia	5
Will the Special Economic Zone contribute to carbon neutrality? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	5
The moderating role of shadow banking on the finance-growth nexus	5
Do vintage scores by regions matters? The case of French wine regions	5
Unintended look-ahead bias in out-of-sample forecasting	5
Does hedge fund activism affect corporate social responsibility: evidence from China	5
Peer performance and short-termism: evidence from green patenting activities	5
Public debt and aggregate investment in the EU	5
Environmental protection policy and green innovation in China	5
Long-term debt in water utilities: does ownership matter? Evidence from West Virginia’s utilities	5
Convergence patterns in global peace: fresh insights from the club convergence algorithm	5
What drives bank liquidity creation?	5
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	5
Effects of reducing food-away-from-home consumption on sodium intake	5
The beauty premium in urbanization: do more beautiful people have a higher sense of fairness?	5
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	5
Corporate social responsibility, financing capacity and innovation investment -- an empirical analysis based on a-share listed high tech enterprises	5
Variation in spending efficiency: the effects of exogenous factors on municipal efficiency in a recently decentralized country	5
The role of national information technology investments in inventory efficiency and financial performance: evidence from manufacturing industry in Germany	5
Does young firm growth persist? The role of firm age	5
A dynamic counting approach to measure multidimensional deprivations in jobs	5
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	5
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	5
The impact of adopting an energy information system on household energy consumption: a dynamic difference-in-differences approach	5
Unanticipated benefits: left-behind peers and improved health in rural Chinese classrooms	5
Disapproval rating, VIX index, COVID-19 cases and Trump’s tweeting against China	5
When customer meets AI failure: expectation discrepancy perspective	5
Financial accelerator, household portfolio, stock prices, and monetary policy shocks	4
Who’s the boss? Exploring public and private wage growth leadership in state-level education and health industries in Australia	4

Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	4
A machine learning approach to forecasting carry trade returns	4
Overnight returns, daytime reversals, and anchoring bias	4
COVID-19 impact on the Spanish stock exchange with mean-variance and diversification-based portfolios	4
Will infrastructure construction drive Chinese rural families to develop their own enterprises?	4
Convergence in economic complexity: global evidence	4
Effect of private capital in rival projects on public-private partnership adoption in China	4
Doomed in din or synced with signal: a study of dissent within Indian monetary policy committee	4
Has fintech affected the credit loan scale of urban commercial banks in China?	4
Do robots decrease humans’ wages?	4
Trade Policy Implications of a Changing World: Tariffs and Market Power	4
Police-involved killings and economic sentiment of black households	4
How does competition for funds in the wealth management market impact Chinese households’ risky financial investment?	4
Regional scope of practice and hospital readmission	4
Does population ageing affect financial market stability? Evidence from firm-level stock price crash risk	4
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	4
Testing for market efficiency in cryptocurrencies: evidence from a non-linear conditional quantile framework	4
Innovation performance convergence: evidence from Chinese listed OFDI companies	4
Breaking the boundaries of corporate innovation: evidence from industry-university cooperation	4
Contributing to the global public good: the case of NATO	4
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	4
Financing needs, financing environment and over-disclose innovation information	4
Does partisan conflict affect US innovation?	4
Examining the impact of revenue diversity on government productivity using stochastic frontier production function: the U.S. State government	4
Oil price shocks, exchange rate and uncertainty: case of Latin American economies	4
The effects of moratoriums on hotel building: an anti-tourism measure, or rather protection for local incumbents?	4
Managing the exploitation/exploration paradox: the role of digital transformation	4
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	4
Estimating stock pledge rate using VaR and modified ES model	4
Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Geopolitical risk, international trade of China, and Belt & Road Initiative	4
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	4
Do environmental provisions in regional trade agreements help to increase environmental innovation?	4
Factors of carbon emissions from Chinese urban and rural residents: a time-varying study	4
Dragging a heavy load to the central bank:influence of experienced natural and man-made disasters on central bankers’ behaviour	4
Measuring The Myopic Loss Aversion Premium: An Experimental Approach	4
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	4
The US vs. the EU: cross-border bank flows’ origin factor and shadow banking in emerging market economies	4
Measuring cross-country heterogeneity in the value of patents based on the patent-trade relationship	4
Electric vehicles in multi-vehicle households	4
Using panel data clustering regression analysis to revisit income inequalities in the European Union	4
On the relationship between lemon effect and worker characteristics: evidence from Korea	4
Linking asset prices to news without direct asset mentions	4
News implied volatility and aggregate economic activity: evidence from the Japanese government bond market	4
Urbanization and industrial energy intensity in Canton China	4
Navigating uncertainty: analysing its impact on the fertilizers industry through listed companies	4
A social interaction model with both in-group and out-group effects	4
Effects of artificial intelligence on duopoly competition	4
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	4
Bitcoin vs. gold: the impact of liquidity on equity risk diversification	4
Exploring the impact and mechanisms of digital finance on regional financial development in China	4
The gender gap in executive pay: insights from quantile regression	4
Geopolitical risk shocks and the Brazilian economy	4
Does carbon emission trading policy affect bank loans of firms? Evidence from China	4
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	4
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	4
How ageing affects manufacturing transformation: empirical evidence from China	4
Product market competition, corporate governance and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China	4
Optimizing the moving average trade rule for cryptocurrencies: implications of band size and transaction costs	4
Correction	3
Are systemic risk measures effective? Evidence from macroeconomic downside risk prediction	3
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	3
Can digital transformation prohibit corporate fraud? Empirical evidence from China	3
Examining the influence of United States tax policies on Chinese new energy sector amidst RCEP tax reductions	3
Multiple large shareholders and risk-taking of commercial banks	3
Is liquidity risk priced in cryptocurrency markets?	3
The asymmetric effects of oil prices on the exchange rate in BRICS: evidence from an advanced quantile approach	3
The effect of oil uncertainty shock on real GDP of 33 countries: a global VAR approach	3
Unlocking entrepreneurial growth: migrants and new firm entry in China	3
Can the Belt and Road Initiative affect the “invisible” external wealth? The role of valuation effect	3
Do institutions matter in the very long-run? - New evidence from OECD countries	3
A cross-country comparison of smallholder farmers’ risk attitudes	3
Price leadership in China’s oil futures market: take two	3
The impact of digitalization on corporate ESG performance: an empirical analysis of Chinese A-Share listed companies	3
Do fiscal councils reduce fiscal policy procyclicality?	3
Twitter & bitcoin: are the most influential accounts really influential?	3
Allocative efficiency of UK firms during the great recession	3
Will air pollution affect entrepreneurial activity? Evidence from China	3
Do Government R&D Subsidies Stimulate Corporate R&D Investment? Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment	3
Volatility connectedness between carbon and energy prices: Common exposure and contagion mechanisms	3
The impact of COVID-19 on earnings management: an international investigation	3
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	3
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	3
Do weather disasters affect banks’ systemic risks? Two channels that confirm it	3
Value-added share and elasticity of trade to barriers	3
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	3
Financial technology and corporate idiosyncratic volatility	3
Peers with romantic relationship and student non-cognitive skills: evidence from Chinese middle schools	3
Roaring out of digital transformation	3
Examining asymmetric impact of climatic factors on crop yields in India	3
The impact of labour unemployment insurance on entrepreneurial intention and new business creation	3
Remittances, unemployment, growth and development: a panel cointegration approach	3
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	3
Driving green innovation: the impact of trade in low-carbon technology products on green entrepreneurship	3
The impact of tax evasion by the rich on the willingness to pay taxes	3
How does intellectual property protection matter? Infringement disputes and corporate innovation investment persistence	3