Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	71
Economic consequences of tax director departure	58
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	51
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	49
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	48
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	36
State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball	34
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	33
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	29
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	27
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	26
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	26
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	25
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	23
Research on structural breaks in dependence: dynamic factor Copula models	22
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	22
Mediating effect of infrastructure in the aid–growth relationship: evidence from China’s aid to Africa	21
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	21
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	21
High-speed rail as a catalyst for clean technological change: evidence from China	20
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	19
Low-pay persistence in the early stage of the career in Italy	19
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	19
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	19
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	18

To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	18
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	18
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	18
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	18
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	17
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	17
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	17
Are gender norms systematic to caste institutions? Evidence from North Indian villages	17
Examining the risk-return linkage for cryptocurrency markets: new insights from a novel stochastic volatility in mean model with time-varying parameters	16
The impact of teachers’ rural school experience on the academic performance of rural-origin students in urban schools	16
Environmental credit evaluation and earnings management	16
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	16
Creditor judicial protection and innovation in SRDI firms: a perspective from bankruptcy judicial specialization	16
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	15
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	15
Weather shocks and exports: evidence from the El Niño Southern Oscillation	15
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	15
The impact of digital investment on the resilience of supply chains of listed Chinese enterprises	15
Geographic distance between ventures and technology search in serial entrepreneurship	14
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	14
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	14
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	14
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	14
The relation between volatility and investor sentiment: COVID-19 and the Russo-Ukraine and Gaza wars	14
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	14
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	14
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	14
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	14
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	14
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	14
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	14
Institutional unlocking and nonlinear leaps: the phased characteristics of agricultural total factor productivity in China	14
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	13
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	13
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	13
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	13
Can digital literacy improve wage income? Evidence from the mechanisms of job matching and job development	13
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	13
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	13
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	13
How does talent introduction drive digital economy development? Evidence from Chinese cities	13
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	13
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	13
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	12
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	12
The labour cost equivalent of the third sector a global perspective	12
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	12
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	12
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	12
One size fits all? Quantifying nudges through demand functions	12

The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	11
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	11
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	11
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	11
What’s bad for the environment is also bad for the market: the impact of air quality on the mispricing of dual-listed shares in China	11
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	11
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	11
Does public data openness matter for corporate social responsibility?	11
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	11
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	10
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	10
Investor attention and the ex-dividend day returns	10
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	10
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	10
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	10
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	10
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	10
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	10
The impact of non-local human capital on local wages: exploring daily inflow of non-local human capital and its impact on local wages	9
Carbon border adjustment mechanism challenges and implications: the case of the United States	9
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	9
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	9
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	9
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	9
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	9
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	9
Forecasting market returns using machine learning: evidence from Random Forest models	9
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	9
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	9
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	9
Finding distant partners: internet infrastructure and the geographical distribution of suppliers	8
Mixed-ownership reform and capital market performance of SOEs: empirical evidence from stock liquidity	8
Cross-border capital flows and stock market returns: a multi-channel analysis based on an ANN-RRMIDAS model	8
Explainable machine learning for predicting zombie firms: a three-dimensional analytical framework	8
Cooperative European NATO burden sharing under a Lindahl model	8
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	8
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	8
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	8
Who understands the US housing market?	8
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	8
Sextortion and corruption	8
The effects of administrative boundary adjustments on service industry agglomeration: evidence from “county-to-district” policy	8
Hedge fund cliques and related-party transactions: evidence from China	8
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	8
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	8
Eyes on the workforce: analyst coverage and employee treatment practices	8
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	8
Stock market reaction to multiple rounds of trade-in policies in the automobile industry: evidence from China	8
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	8
Correction	8
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	8
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	7
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	7
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	7
Renminbi import invoicing and dollar-related external vulnerability	7
Cross-session price incorporation around Taiwan’s after-hours trading introduction: evidence from U.S. and Taiwan index futures	7
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	7
Qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) and corporate fraud: the mediating role of internal control	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	7
Machine learning-based customer segmentation: advances and applications in retail	7
Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	7
Heterogeneity in geographic price dispersion	7
Masking margins with falling prices: strategic response to sequential fiscal interventions	7
Taming the tides: bank credit procyclicality in China’s unified national market	7
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	7
Outward foreign direct investment in the artificial intelligence era: productivity enhancement versus asset-light expansion	7
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	7
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	7
Buddhist culture and corporate misconduct: evidence from China	7
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	7
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	7
Social reputation and AI overreliance: an experimental test with ChatGPT-3.5	7
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	6

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