Empirical Economics

1976 - 2026

Current editor(s): Robert M. Kunst, Arthur H.O. van Soest, Bertrand Candelon, Subal C. Kumbhakar and Joakim Westerlund

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Volume 70, issue 4, 2026

The impact of child benefit reforms on parental health: new evidence from Canada pp. 1-41

Min Hu, Angela Daley and Barry Watson

Lessons of the Vergangenheit: optimal policy learning of innovation subsidies pp. 1-37

Fayssal Ayad

Exploring the quantitative impact of medical marijuana dispensaries on residential sale prices in Oklahoma pp. 1-25

Joshua Clark and Michael S. Delgado

Volume 70, issue 3, 2026

Market integration in the digital era: can public data openness break market segmentation? pp. 1-43

Peiyu Li, Liping Li, Xinzhi Liu and Hanmei Zhou

The spending consequences of COVID-19 stimulus payments: the case of baseball cards pp. 1-43

Quinn Keefer

Weather shocks, productivity, and performance of manufacturing firms in Colombia pp. 1-28

Jefferson Muñoz, Alex Perez, Jaime Carabalí and Guillermo Buenaventura

The role of global factors in Bitcoin dynamics: Evidence from the TVP-VAR-SV model pp. 1-28

Nezir Köse, Emre Ünal and Savas Gayaker

The effects of oil news shock on sectoral employment in the USA pp. 1-27

Ozge Kandemir Kocaaslan and Aysegul Uckun Ozkan

Measuring monetary policy shocks and their effects in an emerging economy: the case of Brazil pp. 1-27

Edilean Kleber da Silva Bejarano Aragon, Gabriela Bezerra de Medeiros, Igor Mendes and Ludyson Abreu

Lifting the cap on non-resident university enrollment: evidence from Wisconsin pp. 1-29

Natalia Orlova, Derek Rury and Justin Wiltshire

The EITC and occupational mobility pp. 1-25

Andrew Yizhou Liu

Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in China: a machine learning approach pp. 1-37

Qiuchuan Jiang, Weiwei Zhao and Kun Zhang

Fiscal flows and asset prices pp. 1-17

Michael O’Connell and Jonathan Fletcher

Is complexity always better? A model-free assessment of range-based volatility estimators pp. 1-18

Burak Korkusuz

Similarity-based path forecasting of US recession periods pp. 1-18

Visa Kuntze, Henri Nyberg and Samuel Rauhala

Panel stochastic frontier model with multi-factor error structure: an application on bank efficiency pp. 1-41

Chih-Chiang Hsu, Chang-Ching Lin and Shou-Yung Yin

Hierarchical risk clustering versus traditional risk-based portfolios: an empirical out-of-sample comparison pp. 1-24

Carlos Trucíos

The role of global value chains for the propagation of global and domestic PMI shocks pp. 1-23

Andrzej Torój, Joscha Beckmann and Michał Rubaszek

A composite approach to nonlinear inflation dynamics in BRICS countries and Türkiye pp. 1-40

Tural Yusifzada, Hasan Comert and Vugar Ahmadov

Revisiting US food aid and civil conflict pp. 1-31

Sébastien Mary

Volume 70, issue 2, 2026

Information infrastructure and nutritious diets intake: evidence from West Africa pp. 1-34

Yazeed Abdul Mumin, Paul Nkegbe, Shamsia Abdul-Wahab, Joseph Clottey, Solomon Zena Walelign, Sheila Agyemang Oppong, Clarice Panyin Nyan, Gloria Adobea Odei Obeng-Amoako and Charles Yaw Okyere

Exploring the heterogeneous impacts of Indonesia’s conditional cash transfer scheme (PKH) on maternal health care utilisation using instrumental causal forests pp. 1-33

Vishalie Shah, Julia Hatamyar, Taufik Hidayat and Noemi Kreif

Multi-Benford’s laws and the potential for tax irregularities: the case of FTSE 100 companies pp. 1-33

Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Marcel Ausloos and Polina Khrennikova

Short-term inflation expectations evaluation in the presence of instabilities pp. 1-27

Sidney M. Caetano and João H. G. Mazzeu

Bias-corrected cluster-robust standard errors for fixed effects PPML estimators of gravity panel models with autocorrelated disturbances pp. 1-28

Michael Pfaffermayr

Preference parameter changes: evidence from household consumption and savings pp. 1-31

Masamune Iwasawa and Hayato Nakanishi

Dynamic quantile frequency connectedness and dependence between global football club fan tokens, cryptocurrencies, and uncertainty indices pp. 1-52

Oguzhan Ozcelebi, Rim El Khoury and Sang Hoon Kang

Impact of e-commerce on local retail markets: evidence from Amazon fulfillment centers pp. 1-40

Urbashi Mookerjee

A note on measures of aggregate demand adjusted for import intensity pp. 1-11

Bruno Rocha

Effectiveness of capital controls: gates versus walls pp. 1-24

Yang Zhou and Shigeto Kitano

Birthplace networks and destination choices of male internal migrants pp. 1-49

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir and Erkan Duman

The determinants of health expenditure: a machine learning approach pp. 1-45

Nicola Caravaggio, Raffaele Lagravinese and Giuliano Resce

(In)stability in the dynamics of the cross-country distribution of income per capita pp. 1-46

Davide Fiaschi and Paul Johnson

Using parametric quantile regression to investigate determinants of unemployment duration pp. 1-26

Lorenzo Corsini and Paolo Dyno Frumento

The heterogeneous migration motivations of college graduates in China: the role of preferential household registration policies pp. 1-55

Yuxue Sheng, Qianqian Huang, Yao-Yu Chih and Cheng Jiang

Heterogeneous firm export, energy efficiency and pollution emissions: theory and evidence pp. 1-56

Xi Lin, Geng Huang and Ling-Yun He

Breaking away: development burdens of secession in Africa pp. 1-29

Fayssal Ayad

Are positive technology shocks expansionary at the zero lower bound? pp. 1-42

Yangyang Ji

Spurious significance under shifted mean pp. 1-20

Yijie Fei

Model averaging with ridge regularization pp. 1-19

Alena Skolkova

Forecasting inflation with the hedged random forest pp. 1-36

Elliot Beck and Michael Wolf

Does energy security affect tourism? pp. 1-36

Kris Ivanovski and Bernard Njindan Iyke

Does a revenue-neutral shift from indirect to direct taxes reduce inequality? Evidence from high-income OECD countries pp. 1-48

Hüseyin Şen and Ayşe Kaya

From Conventional to Unconventional Monetary Policy: Is the Taylor Rule an Adequate Representation in Macro Models? pp. 1-48

James Dean and Scott Schuh

Labour supply of couples facing a risk of job loss pp. 1-30

Wouter Gelade, Maud Nautet and Céline Piton

Time-varying multilayer networks analysis of frequency connectedness in commodity futures markets pp. 1-41

Xuewei Zhou, Zisheng Ouyang, Rangan Gupta and Qiang Ji

Volume 70, issue 1, 2026

Effects of land transfer on family living standards: evidence from middle-aged and older farmers in China pp. 1-43

Chengyou Li, Anran Liu, Zeru Wang and Qinghai Li

Monetary policy transmission and the yield curve: the role of external market factors against the backdrop of Brexit pp. 1-42

Christos Tzomakas

Pandemic shocks and unintended healthcare disruptions: chronic patients during COVID-19 pp. 1-33

Martina Repetto, Claudio Lucifora and Antonio Russo

Bank competition and corporate risk-taking pp. 1-46

Japan Huynh

Public education spending, family background, and child education attainment pp. 1-41

Shuang Yu, Xiaojun Zhao and Yinhe Liang

The effects of expanding higher education on wages and employment in German establishments pp. 1-41

Eric Schuss

The benefits share of digital infrastructure pp. 1-45

Yibo Li and Haonan Li

Shale oil revolution, the global oil market and the US economy pp. 1-24

Ioannis Arampatzidis

Smart metering and demand response: analyzing the relationship with current electricity consumption in Korea pp. 1-24

Yenjae Chang, Dae-Wook Kim and Man-Keun Kim

Exploring the impact of input digitalization on carbon emission intensity: evidence at the global industry level pp. 1-24

Genqiang Li, Zihui Yang and Yuanbo Qiao

Patent ownership fragmentation and firm growth: evidence from a panel of US firms pp. 1-31

Mahdiyeh Entezarkheir

Dynamic risk spillovers from crude oil to agricultural commodities: a Markov-switching copula approach pp. 1-31

Jinzhi Li

Heterogeneous impact of consumer confidence on US aggregate consumption over the business cycle pp. 1-15

Gabriel Pino and Jose Barrales-Ruiz

Hospital resilience: public versus private sector dynamics pp. 1-40

Stefania Fontana, Giovanni Baglio, Calogero Guccio, Catia Nicodemo, Giacomo Pignataro and Domenica Romeo

Economic growth and financial depth: the role of institutional quality pp. 1-23

Chaoyi Chen and Zoltán Pókász

The effects of a certificate programme regarding educational mentorship and coaching on the rise of induction programmes for new teachers in Rwandan Primary Schools pp. 1-23

Sofie Cabus, Carla Haelermans, Ilse Flink, Clémentine Uwamahoro Gafiligi, Jean François Maniraho and Jef Peeraer