Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	73
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	52
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	28
Debt maturity structure and the quality of management earnings forecasts: evidence from China	27
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	27
Decomposing global sectoral sales growth: a GVC perspective	23
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	22
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	22
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	21
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	21
Mediating effect of infrastructure in the aid–growth relationship: evidence from China’s aid to Africa	20
High-speed rail as a catalyst for clean technological change: evidence from China	19
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	19
Low-pay persistence in the early stage of the career in Italy	19
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	18
Bankruptcy in China: does the board characteristics matter?	18
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	18
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	18
Does digital inclusive finance enhance the profitability of commercial banks? — Evidence from China	18
Are gender norms systematic to caste institutions? Evidence from North Indian villages	18
Environmental credit evaluation and earnings management	18
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	18
To disclose or not: employment information disclosure in peer-to-peer lending	18
Creditor judicial protection and innovation in SRDI firms: a perspective from bankruptcy judicial specialization	18

Examining the risk-return linkage for cryptocurrency markets: new insights from a novel stochastic volatility in mean model with time-varying parameters	18
The impact of teachers’ rural school experience on the academic performance of rural-origin students in urban schools	17
The impact of digital investment on the resilience of supply chains of listed Chinese enterprises	17
Weather shocks and exports: evidence from the El Niño Southern Oscillation	17
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	16
Geographic distance between ventures and technology search in serial entrepreneurship	16
The labour cost equivalent of the third sector a global perspective	16
The effect of economic growth target constraints on ESG	16
Online food prices and shocks to product availability since Covid-19	16
Embodied carbon emissions and economic flows in China’s transportation sector during trade with BRI countries	16
Measuring labor market imperfections using a nonparametric production approach	16
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	15
The relation between volatility and investor sentiment: COVID-19 and the Russo-Ukraine and Gaza wars	15
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	15
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	15
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	15
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	15
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	15
Enterprise digital transformation, COVID-19 and innovation persistence: evidence from China	15
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	14
How do Korean tourists perceive China’s tourism image? Text analysis based on big data	14
Does alcohol consumption cause poverty? Evidence from Vietnam	14
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	14
Estimating the climate and health damages of Bitcoin mining in the US: Is Bitcoin underwater?	14
Does public data openness matter for corporate social responsibility?	14
Can digital literacy improve wage income? Evidence from the mechanisms of job matching and job development	14
How does talent introduction drive digital economy development? Evidence from Chinese cities	14
Does short-term momentum really exist in China? Evidence from “Siamese twin” stocks	13
Asymmetric effects of monetary policy on income inequality	13
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	13
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	13
Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries*	13
One size fits all? Quantifying nudges through demand functions	13
Corporate biodiversity narratives and stock price synchronicity: evidence from Chinese listed firms	13
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	13
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	13
Research on structural breaks in dependence: dynamic factor Copula models	12
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	12
The impact of foreign quality shocks on sulphur dioxide emissions of exporters	12
Education, online education, and the earnings of nurses	12
The impact of government environmental concern on green economic efficiency: evidence from China	11
Prediction of customer demand for perishable products in retail inventory management, using the hybrid prophet-XGBoost model during the post-COVID-19 period	11
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	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
Rotten at the top: a different form of inaccessibility among top economics journals	11
Effects of climate policy uncertainty on energy markets: insights from the BEKK-GARCH model	11
Was the COVID-19 recession pro-poor in the US, and if so, what was behind it?	10
Can ICT investment promote collaborative innovation? New evidence from enterprises listed on China’s GEM	10
A rank-based approach in portfolio asset allocation	10

Local air pollution and corporate innovation	10
Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic	10
Impact of an exogenous shock (COVID-19) on the performance of Portuguese wine firms: a structural break analysis	10
Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis	10
Investor attention and the ex-dividend day returns	10
Recovery rate prediction via machine learning: evidence from China	10
Do political connections pay? Evidence of corporate payroll tax planning in Chinese firms	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
The valuation of options on discrete dividend-paying stocks	9
Stock market reaction to multiple rounds of trade-in policies in the automobile industry: evidence from China	9
Explainable machine learning for predicting zombie firms: a three-dimensional analytical framework	9
Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs	9
Digital regulation and multinational tax avoidance: evidence from Common Reporting Standard	9
How do land and migration restrictions inhibit the formation of zombie firms? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	9
Cross-border capital flows and stock market returns: a multi-channel analysis based on an ANN-RRMIDAS model	9
Who understands the US housing market?	9
Carbon border adjustment mechanism challenges and implications: the case of the United States	9
Economic crises and obesity: evidence and mechanism from the United States	9
Labour sharing in a duopoly model	9
Modelling the growth and cyclical effects of international remittances in Fiji	9
Mixed-ownership reform and capital market performance of SOEs: empirical evidence from stock liquidity	8
Sextortion and corruption	8
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index	8
Hedge fund cliques and related-party transactions: evidence from China	8
Taming the tides: bank credit procyclicality in China’s unified national market	8
Unrest and uncertainty: how social instability contracts bank credit supply	8
Eyes on the workforce: analyst coverage and employee treatment practices	8
The effects of administrative boundary adjustments on service industry agglomeration: evidence from “county-to-district” policy	8
The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China	8
The effects of CPI increase on disposable income: an analysis for Spain by CGE	8
Clan culture and gender inequality in the leadership of companies: evidence from non-state-owned listed firms in China	8
Government procurement and firm’s market power——Evidence from China	8
Does financial regulation prompt enterprises’ shadow banking? Evidence from China	8
Cooperative European NATO burden sharing under a Lindahl model	8
A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares	8
Correction	8
Machine learning methods for predicting failures of US commercial bank	8
CEO happiness curve and firm innovation: evidence from China	7
Critics’ pick or social media smash: the effect of critics’ reviews and social media on Broadway	7
Heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 pandemic on individual income across industries	7
A test for change points under the roughness of stochastic volatility: the case of the VIX index	7
Customer concentration and stock price crash risk: new evidence from China	7
Double machine learning with endogenous control variables	7
Science and technology fiscal expenditure and urban green innovation——Mechanism analysis based on Fintech	7
Geopolitical tensions and voluntary disclosure strategies: evidence from U.S.-listed Chinese firms	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
Finding distant partners: internet infrastructure and the geographical distribution of suppliers	7
Social reputation and AI overreliance: an experimental test with ChatGPT-3.5	7
Intergenerational mobility of relative poverty and its mechanism in rural China	7
Forecasting market returns using machine learning: evidence from Random Forest models	7
Mandated gender-diversity policy and firm innovation	7
Investigation of K-POP security prices	7
Foreign ownership and audit report lag	7
Qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) and corporate fraud: the mediating role of internal control	7
Health care expenditure, economic growth, and population ageing in Japan: empirical evidence using the nonlinear ARDL approach	7
CEO turnover and ESG greenwashing: evidence from China	7
Pay to pump: financial influencers and stock returns	7
The impact of aggregate demand shocks on Germany’s trade balance and industry	7
Developing an early warning system with machine learning and post-crisis information	7
Are outcome variables always bad controls? The case of mediating variables	7
Insurance fund shareholding and financial report quality:Empirical evidence from A-share listed companies	7
Heterogeneity in geographic price dispersion	7
Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market inequality	7
Buddhist culture and corporate misconduct: evidence from China	7
Masking margins with falling prices: strategic response to sequential fiscal interventions	7
Climate policy uncertainty, market volatility and sustainable investing: new insights from a TVP-VAR framework	7
Measuring risk exposure in global supply chains through production length decomposition	6
Learning about supply chain risk and firm performance: evidence from a language model	6
Behavioural economics in the third decade of the XXI century: moving beyond ‘as if’ behavioural economics	6
Jointness versus independence in house purchase decisions of Indian households: head of household or family matters?	6
Explore jump behaviour in China's crude oil future market during the COVID-19	6
What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation	6
Digital government construction, supply chain spillovers and corporate labour employment	6
The five-factor model analysed by machine learning classification techniques	6
The effect of urbanization on fast-food preferences and body mass index: evidence from China	6
An NBA player’s college of attendance and Instagram following	6
Clusters in foreign-born vs. native self-employment in Europe: do we look alike?	6
Power structure, bargaining power, and corporate social responsibility in bilateral monopoly	6
Digital inclusive finance and Zipf’s law for firms of China: an investigation based on the full-sample data	6

ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China	6
Unlocking the key to capital deepening: how financial constraints impact labour and capital in China	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
Market-oriented reform and firms’ non-market strategies: evidence from the decoupling reform of industry associations in China	6
Outward foreign direct investment in the artificial intelligence era: productivity enhancement versus asset-light expansion	6
Machine learning-based customer segmentation: advances and applications in retail	6
Unveiling Bitcoin market dynamics: a machine learning perspective on return predictions	6
Waiting to work: employment among dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders in the U.S.	6
Impacts of freight railway speed-up on market entry decisions of grain enterprises: evidence from China	6
Can investor sentiment connectedness predict banking systemic risk: evidence from China	6
Analyst forecasts following indictments of controlling shareholders: evidence from Korean chaebols	6
The impact of university energy research and development on CO 2 emissions	6
Instability in digital autocracies	6
Do firms pay attention to forward-looking supply chain risk information? Empirical evidence based on the perspective of auditor change	6
How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises?	5
Online video sharing and revenues during the pandemic. Evidence from musical stream data	5
Co-movement between stablecoins and news sentiment: a Wavelet Coherence analysis	5
Extensive margins of trade and profitability: evidence from Taiwan	5
Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap	5
On the efficiency of growth forecasts for Germany: an application of forward and backward predictor variable selection	5
Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets	5
Supplementary health Insurance and fraud victimization: evidence from critical Illness Insurance in China	5
Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19	5
Philanthropic lottery culture and corporate social responsibility: evidence from China	5
Financial stability and European union allowances: a tale of jumps and regime shifts	5
Mandatory sustainability reporting guidelines, ESG performance and market reaction: evidence from China	5
Regret aversion, risk appetite, and the sustainability nexus in mean–variance analysis	5
Transition risk, physical risk and energy prices: evidence from wavelet analysis	5
Is cheap talk just empty words? The signalling value of voluntary promises for loan repayment	5
Financial accessibility, industrial revitalization, and income mobility: evidence from rural China	5
Frequency connectedness among cryptocurrency environmental attention, green and black cryptocurrencies	5
Biodiversity and financial corporation green bond price	5
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on financial conditions and well-being: exploring the moderating influence of personality traits on life satisfaction	5
Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers	5
Does financial flexibility enable corporate digital transformation? Evidence from Chinese listed firms	5
The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties	5
How did gold prices respond to the COVID-19 pandemic?	5
Does population ageing affect fiscal response to government debt?*	5
Stake sensitivity and social reasoning in the Ultimatum Game: humans vs. LLM responders	5
The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America	5
What explains monetary policy rate uncertainty? Evidence from the Americas	5
Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective	5
Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks	5
ESG ratings and macroeconomic risks in the Asian emerging stock markets	5
Making the most of grad school? Advisor selection and student productivity among economics PhD students	5
Analysing the role of energy in economic growth and convergence: a cross-country study from 1980–2019	5
Executive financial background and corporate digital transformation: empirical evidence from China	5
The impact of SRDI policy for SMEs on corporate innovation under the COVID-19: evidence from China	5
Leveraging managerial collaboration attention for corporate high-quality green innovation	5
Management team stability and financing constraints	5
The long-run relationship between labour force participation rate and unemployment rate for Türkiye: COVID-19 matters	5
Can agricultural financial support promote high-quality development in rural areas of China?	5
Simulated stable matching for urban hospitals and residential communities	5
What do people want? An analysis of citizens’ willingness to use Advanced Air Mobility in Italy	5
The effect of corporate investment on market frictions: implication for the stock price delay premium	5
The impact of climate policy on the risk contagion in China’s stock markets	5
ESG performance and trade credit: evidence from OECD countries	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
Breathing the burden: the impact of air pollution on respiratory health in South Korea	5
China’s monetary policy surprises and systemic risk in non-financial corporations: a perspective of risk decomposition	5
Office spaces and urban costs	5
The impact of institutional support on university research efficiency in China: based on super-efficiency SBM and panel regression models	5
Who leads in price discovery? Trading frictions and return transmission in spot Bitcoin ETFs	5
The Effect of Domestic Air Travel on the Spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.	5
Supply chain vertical common ownership and firm ESG performance	5
Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection	5
Hiring or training? Innovation and skills acquisition in the green transition	5
Does marriage shape gender roles attitudes? evidence from a pseudo-event study in China	5
Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation	5
How does industry association impact micro and small enterprises’ innovation decisions? Evidence from China	5
Forecasting RMB exchange rate volatility: do time-varying higher moments and time-varying risk aversion help?	4
The impact of resource-exhausted city transformation policies on elderly self-rated health: evidence from China	4
Government accounting supervision and ESG performance	4
PMO factor crowding and returns: evidence from China	4
Public data accessibility and analyst earnings forecast accuracy: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China	4
The effects of the Iberian exception mechanism on wholesale electricity prices and consumer inflation: a synthetic-controls approach	4
Understanding the challenges of community supported agriculture in Malaysia: farmers’ perspectives	4
Short-run participation effects of tournament success: the case of online bridge	4
Leveraging the budget for cleaner air: the role of legislative oversight by the People’s Congress in Chinese environmental governance	4
The green returns of industrial automation: do industrial robots improve air quality?	4
Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China	4
Consumer preference, externalities, and corporate social Responsibility in a Cournot duopoly	4
Supplier-customer ESG consistency and suppliers’ investment efficiency	4
Too close to the sun: solar farms’ impact on housing prices at subtropical latitudes	4
Spatially differentiated minimum wages and inter-city investment flows: evidence from China	4
Impact of relaxing internal-migration restrictions on agricultural TFP of rural households: evidence from China	4
Heterogeneous responses to boycott on services trade	4
Impact of the digital economy on income inequality: evidence from China based on the partially linear functional coefficient model	4
The ecological footprint in Africa: identifying convergence clubs from 1970 to 2018	4
Industrial park policy and regional industrialization in Indonesia	4
The impact of service trade policies on trade in goods 1	4
Inflation versus unemployment: what is strongly associated with U.S. consumer confidence over time?	4
Time-frequency dynamics of financial market stress and global economic uncertainties: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The indirect effects of nuclear power plant accidents on population dynamics	4
A new systemically important commodity future index in Chinese market	4