Applied Economics Letters

Article	Citations
Computing optimal portfolios of multi-assets with tail risk: the case of bitcoin	80
Does risk disclosure influence mergers and acquisitions? A textual analysis	52
Transnational Banking Supervision, Distance-to-Distress and Credit Risk: the SSM Case	48
Education policy and R&D-based growth in an overlapping-generations model	39
Global maximal Sharpe ratios for active portfolios	36
The effect of investor protection on firm riskiness and performance during the COVID-19 economic crisis	32
The effects of the job retention programme during the Covid pandemic on the Chilean firms and households	31
Does partisan conflict affect US innovation?	29
Technical efficiency and complementarity of agroecological innovations in French West Indies banana production	27
From FIT to FIP: assessing the impact of feed-in policies on renewable development in Germany	26
Sukuk returns dynamics under bullish and bearish market conditions: do COVID-19 related news and government measures matter?	26
Intergenerational mobility of earnings in rural China	26
Can the global financial cycle and economic conditions predict real estate market volatility?	25
Inflation-targeting central bank responses to exchange rate shocks: evidence from Latin America	23
Spatial spillover effect of green finance on urban-rural income gap	23
Two ENR cost indexes react differently to labour conditions	20
Social pressure in football matches: an event study of ‘Remote Matches’ in Japan	18
Economic policy uncertainty and financial stress revisited: a MIDAS-CQR approach	18
Political governance and corporate investment efficiency in China	17
Profiting from growth: Trade, investment and the ASEAN-China technology gap	17
Does digital finance facilitate improvement in export product quality? Evidence from China	16
The effect of education on economic institutions	15
CEOs’ educational background and investments in software	15
Investigating the feasibility of the double-play strategy: evidence from Hong Kong’s speculative attacks	15
A machine learning approach to forecasting carry trade returns	15

The asymmetric impact of tax burden structures on the shadow economy: a panel analysis of old and new European Union countries	14
Two-Tier Earnings Structures and labour Market Reform	14
Mobility and economic activity around the world during the Covid-19 crisis	13
Clean cryptocurrency and green assets: a quantile connectedness approach	13
Occupational sorting and the transmission of self-employment between generations	13
The impact of business environment on corporate default risk: evidence from China	13
Delta-hedged gains of SSE 50 ETF options	12
Suppliers’ annual report tone and enterprise inventory efficiency	12
Free shipping	12
Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms	12
Do we get fat because of air pollution? A new socio-economic approach	12
The economic costs of obesity: evidence from China	11
Can fintech improve audit efficiency? Empirical evidence from audit fees and corporate governance	11
Connected to risk: CEOs’ hometown connections and firm-level political risk in China	11
Competitor risk disclosure and firm M&A activities: evidence from textual analysis	11
Economic policy uncertainty and innovation: the moderating role of digital transformation	10
Regional financial development, spatial spillover and capitalization of pig breeding	10
Forecasting betas with random forests	10
Are CEO characteristics associated with income smoothing?	10
Fundamentalists in the cryptocurrency markets	10
Timber harvesting in New Zealand	10
How does regional religiosity influence corporate innovation? New evidence from China	10
A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance	9
The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan	9
Which is the most effective innovation protection method for different types of product innovation?Evidence from South Korean manufacturing firms	9
Global shocks and local connectedness: evidence from dynamic tail risk interdependences among Chinese regional carbon markets	9
The extent of the shock to economic growth by the epidemic and the recovery effect: evidence from China since 2020	9
Comparison of GMM and MD estimators for a panel regression model with endogenous regressors and an AR(1) disturbance	9
The externality of her retirement – evidence from China	9
Media bias with asymmetric media quality	8
Will infrastructure construction drive Chinese rural families to develop their own enterprises?	8
Cost-efficiency and bank profitability during health crisis	8
Do tall people indeed have leadership skills? Evidence from 12 th graders	8
Applying the LightGBM model and SHAP interpretation to understand the urban land price index and its influencing factors in China	8
Navigating the green transition: the influence of energy volatility on green and sustainable ETFs	8
Preparing for climate volatility: exploring the impact of climate risk on excess cash holdings	8
Forecasting VIX using realized EGARCH model with dynamic jumps	8
Impact of fiscal decentralization and ethnic diversity on health outcome: an empirical evidence from Indonesia	8
World prospers China: Chinese private firms with lending before the China–United States trade war	8
Characteristics and trends of regional inequality in China: a multidimensional perspective	8
The impacts of COVID-19 on the dependence structure of the stock market	8
Does digital finance promote entrepreneurship? Evidence from city-level and household-level data in China	8
Public sector jobs and subjective well-being in China	7
Do agricultural subsidies raise the income of rural households effectively? Evidence from rural China	7
ESG ratings and corporate competitive strategy: evidence from China	7
Revisiting income-related health inequality in China: changes before and after the 2009 healthcare reform	7
Should myopic students wear eyeglasses?―A regression-discontinuity analysis	7
Dealing with serially correlated errors in the context of spurious regression for two independent stationary AR(1) processes	7
Stay safe? Restrictions on managers’ outside employment opportunities and firm risk	7
Graduate education and enterprise innovation	7

Financial strain and loneliness in older adults	7
Baltic dry index and global economic policy uncertainty: evidence from the linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests	7
Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil	7
A social interaction model with both in-group and out-group effects	7
COVID-19’s impacts on the Korean stock market	7
Economic impact of natural disasters: a myth or mismeasurement?	7
The relationship between informality and sustainable development goals through text analysis	7
Cryptocurrencies and capital flows: evidence from El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin	7
What forces children away from home? Evidence from Uganda	7
Corporate name change: the effect of the firm’s shareholder distribution	6
The moderating role of shadow banking on the finance-growth nexus	6
The effects of moratoriums on hotel building: an anti-tourism measure, or rather protection for local incumbents?	6
Does economic power or leadership matter? The difference between male and female world leaders in managing pandemics	6
Innovation performance convergence: evidence from Chinese listed OFDI companies	6
How does competition for funds in the wealth management market impact Chinese households’ risky financial investment?	6
The effect of firm-level climate change risk on tax avoidance: evidence from China	6
Natural disasters and risky financial assets investment (RFAI): Evidence from Chinese urban households	6
Unintended look-ahead bias in out-of-sample forecasting	6
Forecasting charge-off rates with a panel Tobit model: the role of uncertainty	6
The great expansion of 2019 and the delinquency rates of blacks and hispanics	6
CEO excess compensation: the impact of compensation committee quality and corporate social responsibility	6
Disapproval rating, VIX index, COVID-19 cases and Trump’s tweeting against China	6
Do vintage scores by regions matters? The case of French wine regions	6
A dynamic counting approach to measure multidimensional deprivations in jobs	6
Welfare implications of information sharing by integrated e-retailers	6
Cultural distance, foreign ownership, and corporate innovation in China	6
Effects of reducing food-away-from-home consumption on sodium intake	6
The effectiveness of English Medium Instruction in primary education: evidence from Ethiopia	6
Corporate social responsibility, financing capacity and innovation investment -- an empirical analysis based on a-share listed high tech enterprises	6
Measuring cross-country heterogeneity in the value of patents based on the patent-trade relationship	6
The role of national information technology investments in inventory efficiency and financial performance: evidence from manufacturing industry in Germany	6
Does young firm growth persist? The role of firm age	6
An evaluation of the effectiveness of three early-warning models on financial indexes	5
Peer performance and short-termism: evidence from green patenting activities	5
Public debt and aggregate investment in the EU	5
The impact of adopting an energy information system on household energy consumption: a dynamic difference-in-differences approach	5
Commodity exports and educational inequality	5
Flight-to-quality or not? Evidence from China’s green bond and green equity markets during COVID-19 crisis	5
Oil price shocks, exchange rate and uncertainty: case of Latin American economies	5
Can social media protect retail investors? Evidence from China mergers and acquisitions	5
The impacts of house prices on floating population’s fertility intentions – evidence from China	5
Will the Special Economic Zone contribute to carbon neutrality? Quasi-natural experimental evidence from China	5
When customer meets AI failure: expectation discrepancy perspective	5
Long-term debt in water utilities: does ownership matter? Evidence from West Virginia’s utilities	5
Variation in spending efficiency: the effects of exogenous factors on municipal efficiency in a recently decentralized country	5
COVID-19 impact on the Spanish stock exchange with mean-variance and diversification-based portfolios	5
Pricing strategy for products with consumption synergy	5
The beauty premium in urbanization: do more beautiful people have a higher sense of fairness?	5
How dynamic have the returns to education been with technological change? A case study from 1998 to 2021	5
Urbanization and industrial energy intensity in Canton China	5
Directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and corporate digital transformation	5
Abnormal stock returns of Greek banks during COVID-19: an event study	5
Distributional effects of gasoline tax in Brazil	5
Can environmental regulations improve the investment efficiency of heavily polluting firms? A quasi-natural experiment in China	5
The impact of education on time spent in religious activities: evidence from Turkey	5
Do exports of creative goods lead to economic growth?	5
Do socioeconomic inequalities increase the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey?	5
The demand for loan guarantees in the UK 1981–2018: time series analysis	5
Dynamic conditional correlation between green and grey energy ETF markets using cDCC-MGARCH model	5
Does hedge fund activism affect corporate social responsibility: evidence from China	5
Taking logarithm when the independent variable contains zeros in regression analysis: a new approach	5
Foreign direct investment and industrialization in Tanzania admixture time series forecast analysis 1960 - 2020	5
Sequential Monte Carlo estimation for Present-Value model	5
Can the Belt and Road Initiative affect the “invisible” external wealth? The role of valuation effect	5
Promoting small businesses’ access to credit and innovation through a reform of the bankruptcy system: evidence from Slovenia	5
The effect of the industrial networks within business groups on the quality of accounting information: evidence from China	5
Firm gender labour supply elasticities and sources of separation: evidence from Chile	5
Unanticipated benefits: left-behind peers and improved health in rural Chinese classrooms	5
Japan’s unemployment rate hike amid the COVID-19 pandemic – why was it so mild?	5
Illegal fundraising and financial availability——The evidence from court cases in China	5
Environmental protection policy and green innovation in China	5
Impacts of biomass power generation on ambient air quality–evidence from China	5
Convergence patterns in global peace: fresh insights from the club convergence algorithm	5
Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea	5
The impact of tax evasion by the rich on the willingness to pay taxes	5
Cohort effects within the firm: new evidences from China	5
What drives bank liquidity creation?	5
News implied volatility and aggregate economic activity: evidence from the Japanese government bond market	4
Trade Policy Implications of a Changing World: Tariffs and Market Power	4
Negative social effects of firms’ digital transformation – a perspective based on labour income shares	4

Stringent regulatory policies for COVID-19 and economic rationality	4
The impact of Right-to-Work laws on the financials of hospitals: evidence based on Michigan and Indiana laws	4
The US vs. the EU: cross-border bank flows’ origin factor and shadow banking in emerging market economies	4
Disclosure delay and financial distress prediction: based on Chinese annual reports disclosure system	4
Electric vehicles in multi-vehicle households	4
The middle income trap: look closer and you’ll find it, but maybe not where you expected	4
Optimizing the moving average trade rule for cryptocurrencies: implications of band size and transaction costs	4
Government environmental initiatives, managerial environmental attention, and corporate ESG performance: from the perspective of attention-based View	4
Economic consequences of tax director departure	4
The gender gap in executive pay: insights from quantile regression	4
Does land tenure security increase the marketization of land rentals between acquaintances?	4
Has fintech affected the credit loan scale of urban commercial banks in China?	4
Convergence in economic complexity: global evidence	4
Financing needs, financing environment and over-disclose innovation information	4
Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach	4
Factors of carbon emissions from Chinese urban and rural residents: a time-varying study	4
Estimating stock pledge rate using VaR and modified ES model	4
Labour misallocation and digital infrastructure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of ‘broadband China strategy’	4
Breaking the boundaries of corporate innovation: evidence from industry-university cooperation	4
Are unionized firms more likely to use nonbank loans?	4
How ageing affects manufacturing transformation: empirical evidence from China	4
The positive impact of green bond issuance on corporate ESG performance: from the perspective of environmental behavior	4
Financial market analogies of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index	4
The role of opportunity versus effort in shaping long-term well-being in China	4
Financial accelerator, household portfolio, stock prices, and monetary policy shocks	4
Regional scope of practice and hospital readmission	4
Who’s the boss? Exploring public and private wage growth leadership in state-level education and health industries in Australia	4
Measuring The Myopic Loss Aversion Premium: An Experimental Approach	4
How does intellectual property protection matter? Infringement disputes and corporate innovation investment persistence	4
Overnight returns, daytime reversals, and anchoring bias	4
Do environmental provisions in regional trade agreements help to increase environmental innovation?	4
Optimal reserve prices for land auctions in Eastern Germany	4
The role of aggregate risk aversion in the pricing of economic uncertainty	4
Does population ageing affect financial market stability? Evidence from firm-level stock price crash risk	4
Managing the exploitation/exploration paradox: the role of digital transformation	4
Using panel data clustering regression analysis to revisit income inequalities in the European Union	4
Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China	4
Does carbon emission trading policy affect bank loans of firms? Evidence from China	4
Is corporate community involvement associated with poverty and income inequality? International evidence	4
Testing for market efficiency in cryptocurrencies: evidence from a non-linear conditional quantile framework	4
Can digital transformation reduce the cost of debt capital? Empirical analysis based on the perspective of financial situation	4
How population ageing affects tourism trade balance	4
Air pollution, cognitive capacity, and borrowing behaviours: evidence from an online peer-to-peer platform	4
Contributing to the global public good: the case of NATO	4
Linking asset prices to news without direct asset mentions	4
Global textile and apparel value-added exports network structure and China’s network position	4
Risk perception, risk preference and farmers’ indifference in grain sales	4
Navigating uncertainty: analysing its impact on the fertilizers industry through listed companies	4
Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Geopolitical risk, international trade of China, and Belt & Road Initiative	4
Examining the impact of revenue diversity on government productivity using stochastic frontier production function: the U.S. State government	4
On the relationship between lemon effect and worker characteristics: evidence from Korea	4
Bitcoin vs. gold: the impact of liquidity on equity risk diversification	4
Geopolitical risk shocks and the Brazilian economy	4
Police-involved killings and economic sentiment of black households	4
Multiple large shareholders and risk-taking of commercial banks	3
Do Government R&D Subsidies Stimulate Corporate R&D Investment? Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment	3
The impact of COVID-19 on earnings management: an international investigation	3
Do weather disasters affect banks’ systemic risks? Two channels that confirm it	3
Digitalization and firm performance: channels and heterogeneities	3
Decomposing Okun’s law: evidence for the United States, 1970–2021	3
Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk	3
The impact of public procurement on market competition: evidence from South Korea	3
Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic	3
FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter?	3
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	3
Economic policy uncertainty in US and Europe: time-varying Granger causality	3
Does artificial intelligence improve the quality of export products? Evidence from China	3
Driving green innovation: the impact of trade in low-carbon technology products on green entrepreneurship	3
Allocative efficiency of UK firms during the great recession	3
Remittances, unemployment, growth and development: a panel cointegration approach	3
The profitability of Bollinger Bands trading bitcoin futures	3
COVID-19 effects on the S&P 500 index	3
The profitability of trading US stocks in Quarter 4 - evidence from trading signals emitted by SOI and RSI	3
Correction	3
Digital transformation and corporate Labor costs for ordinary employees	3
Food markets performance under the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of meat industry in Iran	3
The short-term impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on carbon emissions: causal evidence from China	3
Will air pollution affect entrepreneurial activity? Evidence from China	3
The reaction of financial markets to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: evidence from gold, oil, bitcoin, and major stock markets	3
Peers with romantic relationship and student non-cognitive skills: evidence from Chinese middle schools	3
Is liquidity risk priced in cryptocurrency markets?	3
Roaring out of digital transformation	3
Examining asymmetric impact of climatic factors on crop yields in India	3
The effect of oil uncertainty shock on real GDP of 33 countries: a global VAR approach	3
Dragging a heavy load to the central bank:influence of experienced natural and man-made disasters on central bankers’ behaviour	3
The impact of the digital economy on the urban-rural income gap: evidence from provincial panel data in China	3
Reasons for the heterogeneity of regional innovation policy on innovation output: considering the influence of policy sentiment	3
Geographic difference-in-discontinuities	3
Market integration and consumer spending	3
Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China	3
Public procurement and formal employment of small and medium sized enterprises: evidence from China	3
Kinship intensity and ESG performance: the role of socioemotional wealth in family businesses	3
COVID-19 and the rise of maternal deaths: evidence from Mexico	3
Identifying inconsistency in short-term reversal: evidence from the Chinese stock market	3
The discontinuous effect of economic performance on political turnover	3