Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
The impacts of ESG performance and digital finance on corporate financing efficiency in China	80
Is there a pattern in how COVID-19 has affected Australia’s stock returns?	59
COVID-19 pandemic news and stock market reaction during the onset of the crisis: evidence from high-frequency data	51
Dynamic correlations and volatility spillovers between stock price and exchange rate in BRIICS economies: evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak period	50
Underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research	48
Herding Behaviour in Asutralian stock market: Evidence on COVID-19 effect	43
CEO power and corporate social responsibility decoupling	39
COVID-19 effects on the S&P 500 index	36
Measurement and spillover effect of digital financial inclusion: a cross-country analysis	33
Comprehensive analysis of global stock market reactions to the Russia-Ukraine war	32
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce	31
Agricultural mechanization and cropland abandonment in rural China	31
Does the country’s institutional quality enhance the role of risk governance in preventing bank risk?	29
Does digital finance promote entrepreneurship of migrant? Evidence from China	26
How does digital finance impact the leverage of Chinese households?	26
Local government competition, development zones and urban green innovation: an empirical study of Chinese cities	26
AI technologies and employment: micro evidence from the supply side	26
The impact of COVID-19 on the housing market: evidence from the Yangtze river delta region in China	25
The intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19: stated preferences before vaccines were available	23
Urbanization, inclusive finance and urban-rural income gap	23
Quantile connectedness between Sukuk bonds and the impact of COVID-19	23
Connectedness among regional financial markets in the context of the COVID-19	23
Does carbon emission trading policy affect bank loans of firms? Evidence from China	21
Seven centuries of commodity co-movement: a wavelet analysis approach	21
Is Google Trends a quality data source?	20

Corruption, institutional quality and shadow economy in Asian countries	20
The reaction of financial markets to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: evidence from gold, oil, bitcoin, and major stock markets	18
Country risk and international trade: evidence from the China-B&R countries	18
Non-fungible tokens: a hedge or a safe haven?	18
Asymmetric effects of economic policy uncertainty on stock returns under different market conditions: evidence from G7 stock markets	17
All the frequencies matter in the Bitcoin market: an efficiency analysis	17
Changes in self-reported health, alcohol consumption, and sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	16
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	16
Should investors include bitcoin in their portfolio? New evidence from a bootstrap-based stochastic dominance approach	15
Policy uncertainty and firm-level investment: evidence from public-private partnership market in China	15
Nonlinear impacts of information and communications technology investment on industrial structure upgrading: the role of marketization	15
The effect of oil uncertainty shock on real GDP of 33 countries: a global VAR approach	15
The impact of institutions on economic growth in OECD countries	14
COVID-19’s impacts on the Korean stock market	14
Exploring the meso-determinants of apartment prices in Polish counties using spatial autoregressive multiscale geographically weighted regression	14
Estimating the effect of attendance on home advantage in the National Basketball Association	13
Does digital technology innovation work better for industrial upgrading? An empirical analysis of listed Chinese manufacturing firms	13
Twitter & bitcoin: are the most influential accounts really influential?	13
The impact of the selective two-child policy on residents’ fertility intentions in China	13
Does transport infrastructure spur export diversification and sophistication in the G-20 economies? An application of CS-ARDL	12
Geographic difference-in-discontinuities	12
Covid-19’s effect on the alpha and beta of a US stock Exchange Traded Fund	12
Confucian Culture, Gender Stereotype and Female Entrepreneur: Evidence from China	12
Does the construction of smart cities promote urban green innovation? Evidence from China	12
Impact of ICT adoption on cosmetic expenditure of Chinese residents: an exploration accounting for urban-rural differentials	12
Natural resources and assets accountability audit of local officials and government subsidies: evidence from China	11
The impact of education on mental health: evidence from compulsory education law in China	11
Can better business environments promote trade partners’ economic growth?	11
Cultural values and the adoption of central bank digital currency	11
Economic policy uncertainty, corporate diversification, and corporate investment	10
The connectedness between Twitter uncertainty index and stock return volatility in the G7 countries	10
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	10
Does environmental regulations promote the green transformation of high polluters?	10
Dynamic connectedness among regional FinTech indices in times of turbulences	10
On the effectiveness of containment measures in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of labour market characteristics and governance	10
Managerial ability, financial constraints, and the value of cash holding	10
Labour demand in the time of post-COVID-19	10
Does digital financial inclusion moderate or exacerbate output volatility?	10
Model selection for panel data models with fixed effects: a simulation study	10
Returns to higher education in China – evidence from the 1999 higher education expansion using a fuzzy regression discontinuity	10
Chinese national civilized city and corporate social responsibility: will civilized city promote corporate social responsibility?	9
Perceived economic effects of the war in Ukraine: survey-based evidence from Italian firms	9
Environmental information disclosure and Labour investment efficiency	9
Does digital finance impact debt concentration of Chinese firms?	9
Technological change and unemployment: evidence from China	9
Rookie directors and corporate innovation: evidence from Chinese listed firms	9
Health threats of new social media trends: the effects of frequent mukbang watching on overweight and obesity	9
Does government revenue converge across Indian states? Evidence from club convergence	9
Government revenue, quality of governance and child and maternal survival	8
Navigating the economic landscape: a comprehensive analysis of government spending, economic growth, and poverty reduction nexus in Tanzania	8

Does local gambling culture affect bond yield spread? Evidence from China	8
Electric vehicles in multi-vehicle households	8
Forecasting betas with random forests	8
Research on the policy effect of Free Trade Zone on regional innovation capability: evidence from China	8
Business cycle synchronization within the Euro area: disentangling the effects of FDI	8
How commercializing academic patents promote economic growth: mediating effect and spatial spill over	8
Climate policy uncertainty and the green bond market: fresh insights from the QARDL model	8
Institutional quality, insurance markets, and economic growth: evidence from pooled mean group estimation	8
Can digital transformation prohibit corporate fraud? Empirical evidence from China	8
Time-frequency nexus between tourism development, economic growth, human capital, and income inequality in Singapore	8
Foremost features affecting financial distress and Bankruptcy in the acute stage of COVID-19 crisis	8
Household financial services, financial literacy, and COVID-19 pandemic	8
Does online investor sentiment impact stock returns? Evidence from the Chinese stock market	8
Will infrastructure construction drive Chinese rural families to develop their own enterprises?	8
Land transfer and food crop planting decisions in China	7
Covid-19 crisis and corporate cash dividend policies: evidence from Chinese listed companies	7
Exchange rates forecasting and trend analysis after the COVID-19 outbreak: new evidence from interpretable machine learning	7
Nowcasting the trajectory of the COVID-19 recovery	7
Can economic policy uncertainty predict financial stress? A MIDAS approach	7
Fiscal and individual rates of return to university education with and without graduation	7
The profitability of Bollinger Bands trading bitcoin futures	7
Does eliminating benefit eligibility requirements improve unemployed job search and labour market outcomes?	7
Impacts of COVID-19 on financial markets: from the perspective of financial stress	7
The impact of green innovation on export quality	7
Does corporate online interaction activeness affect investors’ perceptions of earnings information? Evidence from China	7
The ecological footprint in Africa: identifying convergence clubs from 1970 to 2018	7
Bitcoin, gold, and the VIX: short- and long-term effects of economic policy uncertainty	7
Is liquidity risk priced in cryptocurrency markets?	7
Independent directors’ dissent on boards and detection of firm violations: empirical evidence from China	7
Zombie firms and corporate innovation: a double distortion effect—empirical evidence from China	7
Income thresholds in the remittances-growth association? a case study of Fiji	7
Study on the influence of IFRS 9 on the impairment of commercial bank credit card	7
Financial stress spillover network across Asian countries in the context of COVID-19	7
Financial inclusion in Turkey: unpacking the provincial inequality and its determinants	7
Digitalization and carbon emission reduction technology R&D in a Stackelberg model	7
Examining asymmetric impact of climatic factors on crop yields in India	7
Financial assets and happiness: evidence from the China Household Finance Survey	6
Calling older workers back to work	6
Baltic dry index and global economic policy uncertainty: evidence from the linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests	6
Political cycle and the financial lending scale	6
Set-level strategic and psychological momentum in best-of-five matches in professional tennis	6
How does urban renewal affect housing price? Evidence from Beijing shantytown renewal plan	6
Peer effects in R&D investments: evidence from China’s science and technology parks programs	6
Economic loss from COVID-19 fatalities across countries: a VSL approach	6
Does managerial ability increase or decrease firm value?	6
Effects of the litigation risk coverage on corporate social responsibility	6
Firm-specific investor sentiment, stock price synchronicity, and crash risk	6
PPP in emerging markets: evidence from Fourier non-linear quantile unit root analysis	6
The asymmetric impact of tax burden structures on the shadow economy: a panel analysis of old and new European Union countries	6
Price co-movements in decentralized financial markets	6
Can comprehensive environmental regulation trigger green innovation? evidence from the low-carbon city pilot policy and green patents of listed industrial enterprises	6
Policy uncertainty and intellectual capital investment	6
Economic growth target management and the quality of economic development: evidences from China	6
Intraday option price changes and net buying pressure	6
Financial hardship and depression experienced by pre-retirees during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mitigating role of stimulus payments	6
Price discovery in bitcoin spot or futures during the Covid-19 pandemic? Evidence from the time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model with stochastic volatility	6
Remittances, unemployment, growth and development: a panel cointegration approach	6
The effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment on manufacturing export sophistication in China	6
Input price discrimination with passive partial ownership	6
The lag effect of economic policy uncertainty on remittances	6
Tax evasion from cross-border fraud: does digitalization make a difference?	6
On the efficiency of German growth forecasts: an empirical analysis using quantile random forests and density forecasts	6
Co-holding behaviour: unlocking the puzzle	6
Does country stability spur economic complexity? Evidence from panel data	6
Application of gravity model to explain the effects of diplomatic relations on China’s service trade	5
Do fiscal councils reduce fiscal policy procyclicality?	5
Geopolitical risk shocks and the Brazilian economy	5
Effects of the quality of science and innovation on venture financing: evidence from university spinoffs in Japan	5
Flight-to-quality or not? Evidence from China’s green bond and green equity markets during COVID-19 crisis	5
Forecasting cryptocurrencies’ price with the financial stress index: a graph neural network prediction strategy	5
How do households respond to economic policy uncertainty? Evidence from China	5
Financial development and the distribution of trade flows	5
Does high speed rail enhance financial development?	5
Firm-level TFP convergence: an application to the German electricity and gas industry	5
The influence of state-owned enterprise reform on enterprise innovation: new evidence from China	5
Analysis of dynamic connectedness relationships between cryptocurrency, NFT and DeFi assets: TVP-VAR approach	5
Does informality increase the spread of COVID-19 in Africa? A cross-country examination	5
Green innovation of Chinese industrial enterprises to achieve the ‘dual carbon’ goal–based on the perspective of green M&A	5
ESG, firm image, and explanatory power for stock returns	5
Does high-speed rail promote corporate green innovation?	5

Information and price efficiency in the absence of home crowd advantage	5
The soft commodities multiple bubbles tests: evidence from the New York Futures Markets	5
Separation of control and cash flow rights, ultimate controlling shareholders’ equity pledge ratio and risk of control transfer--evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies	5
What shifts did covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?	5
New insights into an old issue: exploring the nexus between government expenditures and economic growth in the United States	5
A penalty-reward system for pro-environmental project execution	5
Bitcoin speculation, investor attention and major events. Are they connected?	5
Bitcoin price manipulation: evidence from intraday orders and trades	5
How do world commodity prices affect Asian commodity exporting economies? The role of financial frictions	5
Newspaper-based equity uncertainty or implied volatility index: new evidence from oil market volatility predictability	5
Are government bonds still safe havens in the context of COVID-19?	5
Wage share and economic growth: evidence from Eastern Europe	5
Does voluntary disclosure on an internet platform affect analyst forecast accuracy?	5
The impact of CBDC adoption on bank liquidity risk: evidence from the global banking sector	5
Urban exodus in Tokyo during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Synchronization without similarity. The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on GDP growth and inflation in the Eurozone	5
Did the bank of Japan’s purchases of exchange-traded funds affect stock prices? A synthetic control approach	5
Ethnic discrimination on paper: uncovering realtors’ willingness to discriminate with mystery mails	5
Are fear and hope of the COVID-19 pandemic responsible for the V-shaped behaviour of global financial markets? A text-mining approach	5
Credit constraints in European SMEs: does regional institutional quality matter?	5
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	5
LASSO-based high-frequency return predictors for profitable Bitcoin investment	5
Covid-19 and life satisfaction across Europe	5
Do natural resource rents reduce labour shares? Evidence from panel data	5
Impact of public procurement for innovation on firm productivity	5
Infant health outcomes in mega-fire affected communities	5
Mobility and economic activity around the world during the Covid-19 crisis	5
Relationship among capital reserves cash dividends, dividend maintenance, and earnings management	5
Prediction accuracy of volatility using the score-driven Meixner distribution: an application to the Dow Jones	5
BRRD credibility and the bank-sovereign nexus	5
Bubbles in NFT markets: correlated with cryptocurrencies or sentiment indexes?	5
Impacts of the Brexit referendum on UK employment: a synthetic control method approach	5
Cluster commercial credit, financing constraint, and firm innovation	5
How does COVID-19 affect firms’ short-term financial pressure? Evidence from China	5
An optimal weighted machine learning model for detecting financial fraud	5
Robo-advisor using closed-form solutions for investors’ risk preferences	5
The importance of labels for sustainable investments: SFDR versus Morningstar globes	5
Digital financial inclusion and household debt in China	5
Public debt and aggregate investment in the EU	4
Testing fiscal sustainability in OECD countries: new evidence from the past centuries	4
Do agricultural subsidies raise the income of rural households effectively? Evidence from rural China	4
The belt and road initiative and the executive compensation contract: evidence from Chinese security market	4
A machine learning approach to forecasting carry trade returns	4
Asymmetric Fisher effect in inflation targeting emerging markets: evidence from quantile co-integration	4
Business-cycle reports and the efficiency of macroeconomic forecasts for Germany	4
The external effect of better-educated parents on student academic outcome	4
Investigating the impact of monetary policy on foreign exchange market in Europe during COVID-19 pandemic	4
AI applications and supply chain concentration	4
The impact of the public pension system on wealth inequality. The distribution of augmented wealth in Poland	4
The effect of maternity on employment and wages in Mexico	4
Climate change disclosure and stock price informativeness, evidence from China	4
The effect of service FDI on carbon productivity in China: a multidimensional heterogeneity perspective	4
The nexus between commercial bank lending and shadow banking assets: do bank risks and profitability moderate? Evidence from emerging markets	4
The effect of the registration-based IPO reform on price efficiency: evidence from China	4
On the nexus between constituents and global energy commodities: an asymmetric analysis	4
Exploring the co-movements between stock market returns and COVID‑19 pandemic: evidence from wavelet coherence analysis	4
Does land tenure security increase the marketization of land rentals between acquaintances?	4
The behaviour of forex market during the first and second wave of COVID-19: a wavelet analysis	4
Peer performance and short-termism: evidence from green patenting activities	4
The persistent effects of COVID-19 on labour outcomes: evidence from Peru	4
A research on driver nodes identification in Chinese interbank networks: based on the controllability theory of complex network	4
COVID-19, self-restraint at home, and pregnancy: evidence from Japan	4
Terrorism and capital flows: the missed impact of terrorism in big cities	4
Does digital finance facilitate improvement in export product quality? Evidence from China	4
Bank performance during the credit crisis: evidence from Asia-Pacific countries	4
Finding refuge underground: effects of refugee inflows on the shadow economy	4
It’s all in the timing again: simple active portfolio strategies that outperform naïve diversification in the cryptocurrency market	4
ESG Performance, Demographic Trend, and Labour Investment Efficiency in China	4
Shadow banking, political connections and financial stability of Chinese banks: an empirical investigation	4
Impact of economic policy uncertainty and financial constraints on firms’ markups: evidence from China	4
Multifactor Keynesian models of the long-term interest rate	4
Economics of institutional quality in the nexus of innovation, technology, and financial market development: international evidence	4
Can environmental tax curb air pollution: evidence from China	4
Measuring the export diversification of creative products’ basket and identifying its drivers: cross-country evidence	4
Changes of China’s soybean import market power and influencing factors	4
Females’ social responsibility: the impact of female executives on ESG performance	4
Factors influencing the profitability of banks in India and China	4
Is ESG-ness the vaccine?	4
Economic impact of natural disasters: a myth or mismeasurement?	4
Systemically important financial institutions in China: from view of tail risk spillover network	4
Estimating the impact of pollution on wages and housing prices using satellite imagery	4
Restructuring U.S. meatpacking as a resilience strategy against capacity disruptions: will it work?	4
A coronavirus outbreak and sector stock returns: a tale from the first ten weeks of 2020	4
End-of-life care and depression	4
Economic policy uncertainty, social capital, and corporate cash holdings	4
Does Innovation Lead to Firm Growth? Explorative versus Exploitative Innovations	4
Does the Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect policy reduce China’s A-H share price premium?	4
French amateur football clubs’ finance and revenue volatility: the determinants of demand shocks	4
Is real estate considered a safe asset in East Asia?	4
New technologies and employee well-being: the role of training provision	4
South-South migration: the impact of the Venezuelan diaspora on Colombian natives’ wages and hours worked	4
Corporate reputation and market reaction: evidence from FinTech industry	4
Climate change and firm productivity: the case of drought	4
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	4
FinTech adoption and bank risk-taking: evidence from China	4