Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	99
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	63
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	55
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	51
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	48
Disapproval rating, VIX index, COVID-19 cases and Trump’s tweeting against China	46
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	41
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	40
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	39
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	33
Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	31
Economic consequences of tax director departure	30
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	29
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	27
A machine learning approach to forecasting carry trade returns	26
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	24
Measuring cross-country heterogeneity in the value of patents based on the patent-trade relationship	24
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	23
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	20
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	20
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	19
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	19
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	19
The effect of government expenditure on income inequality in Sri Lanka	17
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	17

Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	16
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	16
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	16
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	15
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	15
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	15
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	14
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	14
Does economic power or leadership matter? The difference between male and female world leaders in managing pandemics	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
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	14
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	13
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	13
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	13
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	13
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	12
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	12
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	12
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	12
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	12
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	11
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	11
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	11
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	11
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	11
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	10
The effect of oil uncertainty shock on real GDP of 33 countries: a global VAR approach	10
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	10
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	10
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	10
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	10
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	10
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	10
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	10
Testing the balance of payments constrained growth model in a VECM framework: the cases of Brazil, Korea, Mexico and Turkey	10
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	10
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	10
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	10
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	10
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	10
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	9
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	9
Who understands the US housing market?	9
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	9
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	9
Turnout in the time of corona: evidence from the legislative elections in Korea	9
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	9
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	9
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	9
The effect of CSR on acquirer returns of cross-border M&As in an emerging market – a bane or a boom?	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
Quantitative easing and systemic risk in the post-Lehman era	8
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	8
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	8
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	8
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	8
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	8
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	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
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	8
Unemployment and labor force participation in Canada	8
Sextortion and corruption	8
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	8
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	8
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	8
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	8
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	8
The relationship between foreign and domestic employment of multinationals: evidence on the role of factor substitution	7
Health perception biases and risky health behaviours in China	7
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	7
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	7
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	7
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	7
Correction	7
Local air pollution and corporate innovation	7
The hidden compliance zone of fiscal rules	7
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	7
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	7
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	7
Transparency and stock price informativeness: evidence from a natural experiment in China	7
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	7
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	7
Foreign exchange rate shocks and stabilizing role of interbank markets: evidence from Turkey	7
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	7
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	6
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	6
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	6
Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	6
Digital inclusive finance and Zipf’s law for firms of China: an investigation based on the full-sample data	6
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	6
Is the transposition of EU directives homogeneous? An AI counterfactual example	6
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	6
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	6
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	6
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	6
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	6
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	6
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	6
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	6
Why poverty is higher in Spain: a comparison with the Czech Republic	6
Digital finance, stock market participation and asset allocation of Chinese households	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
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	6
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	6
Office spaces and urban costs	6
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	6
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
Social media discussion and the market reaction to earnings announcements: evidence from China	6
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	6
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	5
Current account sustainability and nonlinear adjustment	5
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	5
Nonlinear impacts of information and communications technology investment on industrial structure upgrading: the role of marketization	5
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	5
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	5
Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	5
Identification of crisis in the Chinese stock market based on complex network	5
Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap	5
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	5
Do right-to-work laws reduce financial constraints of firms? Evidence from Michigan and Indiana companies	5
The impact of the Russo-Ukraine conflicts on price discovery on the financial markets	5
A note on the dynamic effects of supply and demand shocks in the crude oil market	5
Flexible workspace and coworking pricing over time in NYC	5
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	5
China’s IPR regime and provincial patenting activity	5
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	5

Talented managers, bank dividend policy and policy uncertainty	5
Is there a relationship between inequality and terrorism? Evidence from a semi-parametric approach	5
Linkage relationship between China and US futures market during trade friction: the case of soybean, soybean oil and soybean meal	5
How does China’s new budget law affect the pricing of local government bonds?	5
Management team stability and financing constraints	5
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	5
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	5
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	5
The economic impact of universities: empirical evidence from Turkish provinces	5
Panel kink threshold model with multiple covariate-dependent thresholds	5
Understanding the challenges of community supported agriculture in Malaysia: farmers’ perspectives	5
Heterogeneous responses to boycott on services trade	5
US–China trade war and key digital technology innovation of Chinese enterprises	5
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	5
Online video sharing and revenues during the pandemic. Evidence from musical stream data	5
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	5
ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	5
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	5
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	5
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	5
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	5
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	5
Financial hardship and depression experienced by pre-retirees during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mitigating role of stimulus payments	5
A credit rationing model of the medium risk borrowers with low valued collateral	5
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	5
Population ageing and household risk aversion	5
Too close to the sun: solar farms’ impact on housing prices at subtropical latitudes	5
Price level convergence in Turkey	5
The indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	4
The spectre of terrorism and the stock market	4
The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method	4
Close but no cigar: does winning the game moderate or amplify failing to cover the spread in future NFL games	4
Public data accessibility and analyst earnings forecast accuracy: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	4
How has Tesla’s entry affected China’s electric vehicle market?	4
How does industry association impact micro and small enterprises’ innovation decisions? Evidence from China	4
Cross-occupational effects of immigration on native wages in the UK	4
Influenza and labour investment efficiency	4
Teams do not outperform individuals in a simple creative task	4
Navigating underperformance: how aspirations shape network brokerage	4
Are socially responsible investment funds seasonal?	4
Finding hidden structure of sparse longitudinal data via functional Eigenfunctions	4
Government accounting supervision and ESG performance	4
More education, less prejudice against sexual minorities? Evidence from compulsory schooling reforms	4
Does state ownership enhance corporate resilience? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Does digital financial inclusion moderate or exacerbate output volatility?	4
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	4
Climate change and firm productivity: the case of drought	4
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities	4
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	4
The value of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the humidifier disinfectant scandal in Korea	4
Threats to ACA associated with temporary increase in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception	4
Asymmetric Fisher effect in inflation targeting emerging markets: evidence from quantile co-integration	4
Forecasting Spanish economic activity in times of COVID-19 by means of the RT-LEI and machine learning techniques	4
Time-frequency dynamics of financial market stress and global economic uncertainties: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The impact of climate policy on the risk contagion in China’s stock markets	4
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	4
The ecological footprint in Africa: identifying convergence clubs from 1970 to 2018	4
Making amends or downplaying? The impact of ESG incidents on boilerplate disclosure of CSR reports in Chinese companies	4
Climate change disclosure and stock price informativeness, evidence from China	4
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	4
Economic globalization and fiscal performance	4
Ownership concentration and bank stability in China	4
Classifying top economists using archetypoid analysis	4
Using a no-minimum 50:50 co-pay to stimulate consumption: evidence from Thailand’s digital fiscal stimulus	4
Is religiosity distance a driver of trade in environmental goods?	4
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	4
The effects of the Iberian exception mechanism on wholesale electricity prices and consumer inflation: a synthetic-controls approach	4
Fertility opportunities and female executives’ career development: evidence from the two-child policy in China	4
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	4
Does the decoupling of industry associations from administrative authorities promote enterprise innovation? Evidence from China	4
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	4
The behaviour of forex market during the first and second wave of COVID-19: a wavelet analysis	4
Evolution of China’s inter-industry radiation: an application of multi-spatial convergent cross-mapping approach	4
The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender differences in education and employment	4
Are companies with high absorptive capacity more likely to survive in harsh environments? From the perspective of innovation spillovers	4
Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers	4
The effects of temporary workers on firms’ financial performance: evidence from China	4
Social security contributions, financing constraints and demand for higher audit quality-evidence from China	4
Geopolitical risk and credit rating: evidence from North Korea’s threats	4
Does education reduce the tendency to give the ‘No-opinion’ response in surveys? Findings from Turkey	4
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	4
Impact of price and regional factors on the word-of-mouth in the food delivery sector	4
Forecasting RMB exchange rate volatility: do time-varying higher moments and time-varying risk aversion help?	4
The impact of Social Security Fund shareholding on corporate ESG performance: evidence from China	4
Will high-speed rail bring cleaning effect to the cities? Evidence from China	4
Money, financial depth and economic growth in orthodox communist nations: the case of Cuba	4
Time-varying causality between money supply growth and inflation: new evidence from Turkey	4
How does non-market economy structure work as a trade barrier?	4
Poverty and mortgage delinquency: unpacking the mediating role of financial overconfidence	4
Nowcasting domestic demand using a dynamic factor model: the case of Ireland	4
Does the deleveraging policy exacerbate tunneling? Empirical evidence from China	3
(Simple) ΔCoVaR bounds	3
The use of digital technology and social integration of migrants in China	3
Impact of the digital economy on public security: evidence from rural China	3
Tail risk contagion among climate risk, EPU, and global financial markets	3