Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	67
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	55
Economic consequences of tax director departure	50
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	49
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	48
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	44
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	39
Perceived job opportunities and educational and migration aspirations among Ethiopian youth	35
State abortion bans and talent acquisition: evidence from NCAA women’s college basketball	34
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	29
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	29
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	25
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	22
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	21
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	20
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	20
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	20
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	20
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	19
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	19
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	18
Research on structural breaks in dependence: dynamic factor Copula models	18
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	18
Does public data openness matter for corporate social responsibility?	18
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	18

Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	17
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	17
Mediating effect of infrastructure in the aid–growth relationship: evidence from China’s aid to Africa	17
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	17
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	16
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	16
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	16
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	16
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	15
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	15
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	15
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	15
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	15
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	15
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	15
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	15
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	14
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	14
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	14
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	14
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	14
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	14
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	14
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	13
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	13
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	13
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	13
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	13
High-speed rail as a catalyst for clean technological change: evidence from China	13
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	12
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	12
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	12
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	12
Low-pay persistence in the early stage of the career in Italy	12
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	12
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	12
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	12
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	12
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	11
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	11
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	11
Creditor judicial protection and innovation in SRDI firms: a perspective from bankruptcy judicial specialization	11
Institutional unlocking and nonlinear leaps: the phased characteristics of agricultural total factor productivity in China	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
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	11
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	11
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	11
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	11
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	11
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	10

Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	10
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	10
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	10
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	10
Investor attention and the ex-dividend day returns	10
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	10
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	10
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	10
Turnout in the time of corona: evidence from the legislative elections in Korea	10
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	9
Cross-border capital flows and stock market returns: a multi-channel analysis based on an ANN-RRMIDAS model	9
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	9
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	9
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	9
Correction	9
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
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	9
Forecasting market returns using machine learning: evidence from Random Forest models	9
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	9
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	9
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	9
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	9
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	9
Finding distant partners: internet infrastructure and the geographical distribution of suppliers	9
Quantitative easing and systemic risk in the post-Lehman era	9
The effects of administrative boundary adjustments on service industry agglomeration: evidence from “county-to-district” policy	8
Mixed-ownership reform and capital market performance of SOEs: empirical evidence from stock liquidity	8
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	8
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	8
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
Office spaces and urban costs	8
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	8
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	8
Eyes on the workforce: analyst coverage and employee treatment practices	8
Sextortion and corruption	8
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	8
Who understands the US housing market?	8
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	8
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	8
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	8
Taming the tides: bank credit procyclicality in China’s unified national market	8
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	8
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	8
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	8
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	8
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	8
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	8
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	8
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	8
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Learning about supply chain risk and firm performance: evidence from a language model	7
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	7
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	7
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	7
Social media discussion and the market reaction to earnings announcements: evidence from China	7
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	7
Unveiling Bitcoin market dynamics: a machine learning perspective on return predictions	7
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	7
Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	7
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	7
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	7
Social reputation and AI overreliance: an experimental test with ChatGPT-3.5	7
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	7
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	7
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	7
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	7
Analyst forecasts following indictments of controlling shareholders: evidence from Korean chaebols	7
How does China’s new budget law affect the pricing of local government bonds?	7
Machine learning-based customer segmentation: advances and applications in retail	7
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	7
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	7
China’s monetary policy surprises and systemic risk in non-financial corporations: a perspective of risk decomposition	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	7
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	7
Supplementary health Insurance and fraud victimization: evidence from critical Illness Insurance in China	7
Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap	7

Behavioural economics in the third decade of the XXI century: moving beyond ‘as if’ behavioural economics	7
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	6
Digital inclusive finance and Zipf’s law for firms of China: an investigation based on the full-sample data	6
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	6
Outward foreign direct investment in the artificial intelligence era: productivity enhancement versus asset-light expansion	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	6
Jointness versus independence in house purchase decisions of Indian households: head of household or family matters?	6
Foreign exchange rate shocks and stabilizing role of interbank markets: evidence from Turkey	6
Power structure, bargaining power, and corporate social responsibility in bilateral monopoly	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
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	6
Management team stability and financing constraints	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	6
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	6
Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	6
Financial accessibility, industrial revitalization, and income mobility: evidence from rural China	6
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	6
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	6
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	6
Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	6
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	6
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	6
Impacts of freight railway speed-up on market entry decisions of grain enterprises: evidence from China	6
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	6
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	6
The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method	5
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	5
The indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	5
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
Panel kink threshold model with multiple covariate-dependent thresholds	5
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	5
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	5
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	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
Correction	5
The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender differences in education and employment	5
Flexible workspace and coworking pricing over time in NYC	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
The value of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the humidifier disinfectant scandal in Korea	5
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	5
Close but no cigar: does winning the game moderate or amplify failing to cover the spread in future NFL games	5
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	5
Population ageing and household risk aversion	5
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	5
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	5
Too close to the sun: solar farms’ impact on housing prices at subtropical latitudes	5
Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	5
Heterogeneity in the nominal exchange rate response to oil price shocks in oil-exporting countries: a new episode of the ‘fear of floating’?	5
Market-oriented reform and firms’ non-market strategies: evidence from the decoupling reform of industry associations in China	5
Time-varying causality between money supply growth and inflation: new evidence from Turkey	5
Ownership concentration and bank stability in China	5
Geopolitical risk and credit rating: evidence from North Korea’s threats	5
The economic impact of universities: empirical evidence from Turkish provinces	5
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	5
Business-cycle connectedness: the role of directional trade and financial linkages	5
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	5
The impact of locus of control on financial market participation	5
A note on the dynamic effects of supply and demand shocks in the crude oil market	5
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	5
Exploring the role of parental influence on offspring honest behaviour: insights from an online study	5
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	5
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	5
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	5
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	5
Expected global financial uncertainty and mutual fund liquidity management: evidence from China	5
The statistics of information ratios when excess returns over the benchmark follow an autoregressive and moving average process	5
Cross-occupational effects of immigration on native wages in the UK	5
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	5
Threats to ACA associated with temporary increase in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
Are companies with high absorptive capacity more likely to survive in harsh environments? From the perspective of innovation spillovers	5
Judicial informatization and digital transformation: evidence from the establishment of the internet court	4
Party school CEO and credit ratings: evidence from Chinese state-owned-enterprises	4
Time series properties of corporate credit rating transitions by regions and rating agencies	4
Supply chain finance and its impact on mitigating the maturity mismatch between corporate investment and financing: evidence from China	4
Farmland idleness: a preventive strategy for migrant workers in flexible employment	4
Spatial peer effect of retail stores’ digital transformation: an analysis using the survey data from China	4
Institutional investor attention and venture capital valuation: evidence from China	4
How do CEO’s green characteristics affect ESG performance?	4
Finding hidden structure of sparse longitudinal data via functional Eigenfunctions	4
Investigating the persistence degree of environmental patent: application of panel SPSM-quantile unit root test	4
Historical pathogen prevalence, collectivism, and different forms of entrepreneurship	4
The impact of female directors’ international experience on managerial ability: evidence from Chinese listed firms	4
Economic globalization and fiscal performance	4
Measurement of market power of agricultural industrial organizations in China: evidence from the Stochastic Frontier Approach	4
Accounting for change in income inequality in rural India, 1993–2011: a regression-based decomposition	4
Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices	4
Impact of carbon market prices on oil market fear across quantiles	4
Corporate culture and product innovation: evidence from a firm survey	4
State-ownership and bank presence in deforesting regions: evidence from the Amazon rainforest	4