Empirical Economics

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Volume 69, issue 3, 2025

What determines green total factor productivity in the Indian manufacturing sector? A spatial–temporal analysis pp. 1079-1116

Prerna Thapliyal, Rachita Gulati and Dinesh Kumar Nauriyal

Spatial Nexus: Natural Resources and Economic Growth pp. 1117-1152

Mingze Marcellus Li, Thanasis Stengos and Yiguo Sun

Valuation of household preferences for improved electricity services pp. 1153-1185

Raul Jimenez Mori

Digital empowerment and the development resilience in rural households: causal inference based on double machine learning pp. 1187-1227

Lin Li, Kecheng Wei, Jiliang Han and Yuchun Zhu

Government spending reallocations and inequality: evidence from middle-income countries pp. 1229-1257

Abdulaleem Isiaka, Alexander Mihailov and Giovanni Razzu

Can site-specific recommendations reduce technology and managerial gaps? Evidence from RiceAdvice in the Senegal River Valley pp. 1259-1285

Aminou Arouna, Eric S. Owusu, Wilfried Gnipabo Yergo and Jacob A. Yabi

The Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis in West Virginia: A Tale of Two Indicators pp. 1287-1314

Josh Beverly, Shamar L. Stewart and Clinton L. Neill

Labor cost shock, export, and export compositions: evidence from China pp. 1315-1333

Chih-Hai Yang and Meng-Wen Tsou

Comparing real-time uncertainty of the Hodrick-Prescott and Hamilton trend/cycle decompositions pp. 1335-1361

Kristian Jönsson

Changes in the monetary policy and credibility index pp. 1363-1381

Maria Thalita Arruda Oliveira Olivindo, Roberto Tatiwa Ferreira and Rodolfo Herald Costa Campos

Nowcasting and short-term forecasting of G-20 countries GDP with endogenous regime-switching MIDAS models pp. 1383-1410

Ivan Stankevich

Heterogeneous impacts of fundamentals on gold market risk using regime switching quantile-based GARCH-MIDAS model pp. 1411-1465

Qiuying Cheng, Xinyu Wang, Song Shi and Zhuqing Wang

Breaking down value: a novel method pp. 1467-1525

Mohammadreza Tavakoli Baghdadabad and Girijasankar Mallik

Does inflation affect well-being? pp. 1527-1549

David Leblang, Michael D. Smith and Dennis Wesselbaum

ACA health insurance expansions, health professional shortage areas, and the geographic distribution of healthcare providers pp. 1551-1583

Cuiping Schiman

The impact of visibility on school athletic finances: an empirical analysis using Google Trends pp. 1585-1629

Sarthak S. Behera and Divya Sadana

Volume 69, issue 2, 2025

Estimating Income Inequality Using Single-Parameter Lorenz Curves: A New Proposal pp. 581-597

José María Sarabia, Vanesa Jordá and Mercedes Tejería

Energy consumption, democracy, and income inequality in Africa pp. 599-638

Samuel Adams, Isaac K. Ofori and Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo

Digital economy enabling low-carbon development—spatial spillover and heterogeneity pp. 639-659

Yongmei Ding, Fengbi Zhang and X. Henry Wang

Dynamic responses of carbon emissions to central environmental protection inspection in China pp. 661-713

Sitong Pan

Climate change and monetary policy: a Bayesian DSGE perspective pp. 715-734

Juha Tervala and Timothy Watson

Bayesian average of classical estimates for panel data: Can the puzzle of the shape of the regional Kuznets curve be solved? pp. 735-754

Andrés Ramírez-Hassan, Carlos Mendez and Estephania Rueda-Ramírez

Opportunity cost and employment effect of targeted emission reduction: an inter-industry comparison across countries pp. 755-785

Subhash C. Ray and Chuang Li

Labour responsiveness to income tax changes: empirical evidence from a DID analysis of an income tax treatment in Italy pp. 787-828

Bruno Paolo Bosco, Carlo Federico Bosco and Paolo Maranzano

Armed conflict and unemployment in Colombia: the role of US drug interdiction policy pp. 829-860

Manuel Pulido-Velásquez, Alexander Alegría-Castellanos and Christopher John Cruz

Who works longer hours in smart cities? pp. 861-890

Zhengyu Cai

Urban housing demolition and entrepreneurship in China pp. 891-914

Xinheng Li and Tao Fu

State-owned enterprises fail to drive regional technological diversification: evidence from China pp. 915-949

Fei Wang, Hao Wang and Qiliang Mao

Third-country investment effects of the belt and road initiative: evidence from China’s overseas direct investment pp. 951-978

Jian Chen, Xiao-qin Dong, Wei Li and Di Zhao

A three-component decomposition of food poverty dynamics: application with data from Cameroon pp. 979-1000

Ebenezer Lemven Wirba

Intimate partner violence and children’s cognitive development pp. 1001-1046

Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Melcior Rossello Roig and Victoria Serra-Sastre

Decomposing supply- and demand-driven inflation in Turkey pp. 1047-1077

Okan Akarsu and Emrehan Aktuğ

Volume 69, issue 1, 2025

Technology and managerial gaps in adoption of innovation: the case of Ethiopian wheat farmers pp. 1-37

Ashok K. Mishra, Ganesh Thapa, Khondoker A. Mottaleb and Kindie T. Fantaye

Governance and economic growth in Africa: evidence from linear, nonlinear and dynamic panel analysis pp. 39-75

Giannis Karagiannis and Suzanna-Maria Paleologou

Determinants of the international crop trade dynamics: new insights from a network structure dependence perspective pp. 77-128

Yin-Jie Ma, Zhi-Qiang Jiang and Wei-Xing Zhou

Long-run substitutability between fossil and renewable energy: global evidence 1800–2012 pp. 129-148

H. Schwerin

Shadow demands for unobservable goods: an intertemporal incomplete demand approach pp. 149-179

H. Youn Kim, José Alberto Molina and K. K. Gary Wong

The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and Caribbean with a MIMIC model pp. 181-211

Marcos Takanohashi, Marcel Ribeiro and Friedrich Schneider

The power of informal institutions: evidence from the impact of religious culture on corporate green governance in China pp. 213-261

Lan Yang, Yangyang Wang and Huayan Geng

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Weather Index Insurance: Empirical Assessment Framework and Policy Recommendations for Fair Premium Subsidies pp. 263-298

Yan Sun

Effectiveness of the Science without Borders program in high qualification and internationalization of Brazilian higher education pp. 299-339

Gerrio dos Santos Barbosa, Aléssio Tony Cavalcanti de Almeida, Wallace Patrick Santos de Farias Souza and Jesús Pascual Mena Chalco

Structural funds and $$\beta $$ β -convergence of German counties pp. 341-392

Philipp Steinbrunner and Julia Bronnmann

Comparing survey measures of firms’ expectations and uncertainty pp. 393-430

Marco Bottone

Inflation co-movement: new insights from quantile factor model pp. 431-464

Saban Nazlioglu, Sinem Pinar Gurel, Sevcan Gunes, Tugba Akin, Cagin Karul and Muhsin Kar

How fiscal rules affect the cyclicality of local government debt? Evidence from China pp. 465-515

Mingjuan Liao, Zhixin Liu and Yingying Xu

Gaining confidence in the revised consumer confidence indicator: nonlinear optimization approach pp. 517-547

Mirjana Čižmešija, Zrinka Lukač and Marina Matošec

Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life pp. 549-579

Mattia Filomena, Isabella Giorgetti and Matteo Picchio

Volume 68, issue 6, 2025

A new semiparametric stochastic frontier model: addressing inefficiency and model flexibility using panel data pp. 2477-2514

Taining Wang, Kai Sun and Subal Kumbhakar

Press freedom and stringency measures: the role of energy consumption during COVID-19 lockdowns pp. 2515-2547

Mita Bhattacharya and Eric Yan

Was Covid-19 a wake-up call on climate risks? Evidence from the greenium pp. 2549-2585

Danilo Liberati and Giuseppe Marinelli

Reaction effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Thailand’s household expenditure patterns pp. 2587-2654

Chutarat Noosuwan, Christopher Gan and Tullaya Boonsaeng

Whither the price of coffee? An analysis of trends and shocks since the coffee crisis pp. 2655-2672

Atanu Ghoshray and Emi Mise

Effects of public expenditure for agriculture on food security in Africa pp. 2673-2704

Marta Marson

Enhancing land productivity through a better organization of irrigation cooperatives: evidence from Tigray, Ethiopia pp. 2705-2727

Tafesse W. Gezahegn, Steven Passel, Tekeste Berhanu, Marijke D’Haese and Miet Maertens

Clan culture and private insurance take-up pp. 2729-2765

Longhao Xu, Xinyu Zhao and Fenghua Wen

Financial inclusion through specialization or diversification with group and individual loans in microfinance pp. 2767-2798

Valentina Hartarska, Jingfang Zhang and Denis Nadolnyak

Empirical similarity for revealing the US interest rate policy: modeling case-based decisions of the FOMC pp. 2799-2828

Vasyl Golosnoy, Yarema Okhrin and Michael W. M. Roos

The effects of macro uncertainty shocks in the euro area: a FAVAR approach pp. 2829-2872

Carlos Cañizares Martínez and Arne Gieseck

Validating cross-sectional dependence assumptions in a factor model pp. 2873-2895

Longyu Chen, Haitao Huang, Lei Jiang, Liang Peng and Zhongling Qin

Variance and skewness in density forecasts: assessing world GDP growth pp. 2897-2932

Fabian Mendez Ramos

Business registration from inception and employment indicators using causal machine learning pp. 2933-2975

Obinna Franklin Ezeibekwe

A gender gap in gender gaps: social norms and housework reporting pp. 2977-3029

Martin Acht and Mara Rebaudo

Volume 68, issue 5, 2025

Two-way random effects model with serial correlation pp. 2041-2072

Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson and Jean-Michel Etienne

A decomposition of the variance of international trade flows pp. 2073-2092

Antoine Gervais

A novel test of economic convergence in time series pp. 2093-2118

Javier Hualde and Jose Olmo

Tail-risk contagion across key industrial chains of China pp. 2119-2158

Ran Huang, Shuhang Guo, Qi Zhou and Yaqi Zhao

Dynamic effects of blockchain on financial markets: evidence from TVP-Bayesian VAR with a connectedness approach pp. 2159-2197

Martin M. Bojaj

Gauging growth risk in an international financial centre: some evidence from Singapore pp. 2199-2224

Hwee Kwan Chow

Different time different answer? Determinants of economic growth with error control via group knockoffs pp. 2225-2254

Yi-Chi Chen and Guo Yu

Does fertility affect growth? Evidence and simulation results from alternative quantile regression estimators pp. 2255-2290

André M. Marques

Gender inequality and economic growth: evidence from industry-level data pp. 2291-2326

Ata Can Bertay, Ljubica Dordevic and Can Sever

Building economic stability through effective natural resource management and renewable energy investment in GCC countries pp. 2327-2355

Yasir Ahmed Solangi and Cosimo Magazzino

How does fiscal pressure affect corporate green transformation? A quasi-natural experiment based on education authority reform pp. 2357-2382

Song Nie

Should states allow early school enrollment? An analysis of individuals’ long-term labor market effects pp. 2383-2411

Katja Görlitz, Pascal Heß and Marcus Tamm

Explaining interregional migration trends in developed countries: a regional perspective pp. 2413-2453

Maximiliano Alvarez, Aude Bernard and Scott N. Lieske

Random change point model with an application to the potato’s contribution to population pp. 2455-2474

Qing Jiang, Meng Li, Xingwei Tong, Qiang Wu and Xun Zhang

Retraction Note: Green innovations and patenting renewable energy technologies pp. 2475-2475

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Almas Heshmati and Inhee Lee

Volume 68, issue 4, 2025

Current account determinants in a globalized world pp. 1497-1527

Mariam Camarero, Josep Lluís Carrion-i-Silvestre and Cecilio Tamarit

Characterizing public debt cycles: the non-negligible impact of financial cycles pp. 1529-1566

Tianbao Zhou, Zhixin Liu and Yingying Xu

A Causal Linkage: Corporate Debt and Sovereign Spreads pp. 1567-1611

Jun Hee Kwak

Does money growth predict inflation in Sweden? Evidence from vector autoregressions using four centuries of data pp. 1613-1635

Rodney Edvinsson, Sune Karlsson and Pär Österholm

Which producer prices lead consumer prices? pp. 1637-1675

Corey J. M. Williams

Integrating sentiment information for risk prediction: the case of crude oil futures market in China pp. 1677-1718

Zhe Jiang, Yunguo Lu and Lin Zhang

Can ESG reconcile the conflicting motives of cash holding? Evidence from China pp. 1719-1756

Xiaobing Lai, Lei Quan, Chong Guo and Fan Zhang

Preferences for inter-generational redistribution toward the young in three European countries pp. 1757-1798

Flavia Coda Moscarola and Francesco Figari

Technology, labour regulation, and nonparametric panel data modelling pp. 1799-1828

Antonio Musolesi and Mario Nosvelli

Sectoral decomposition of convergence in labor productivity: a re-examination from a new dataset pp. 1829-1859

Alistair Dieppe and Hideaki Matsuoka

Does local green governance promote corporate green innovation? A new perspective from green officials pp. 1861-1892

Hong Xu, Kai Lin, Hui Wang, Weifen Lin and Longzheng Du

Air pollution and morbidity: evidence from internet search behavior in a panel of 100 Chinese cities pp. 1893-1934

Mingying Zhu and Anthony Heyes

The transboundary effects of climate change and global adaptation: the case of the Euphrates–Tigris water basin in Turkey and Iraq pp. 1935-1972

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

Preschool education and infant health of the next generation: evidence from an expansion of public child care provision pp. 1973-2007

Juanita Bloomfield

Private health insurance and health in a healthcare system with comprehensive public insurance pp. 2009-2040

Elizabeth Baldwin, Jonas Fooken and David Rowell

Volume 68, issue 3, 2025

Dynamic treatment effect of capital controls on macroeconomic and financial stability in emerging market economies pp. 963-999

Richa Jain and Amlendu Dubey

House prices and ultra-low interest rates: exploring the nonlinear nexus pp. 1001-1037

Daniel Dieckelmann, Hannah S. Hempell, Barbara Jarmulska, Jan Hannes Lang and Marek Rusnák

A Markov regime-switching event response model: beef price spread response to processing capacity shocks pp. 1039-1071

Eunchun Park, Christopher N. Boyer and Clinton L. Neill

Revisiting the drivers of inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa after COVID-19 pp. 1073-1112

Dennis Nsafoah, Cosmas Dery and Ayobami Ilori

Variable selection in macroeconomic stress test: a Bayesian quantile regression approach pp. 1113-1169

Mai Dao and Lam Nguyen

A new Bayesian method for estimation of value at risk and conditional value at risk pp. 1171-1189

Jacinto Martín, M. Isabel Parra, Mario M. Pizarro and Eva L. Sanjuán

Household debt, self-insurance, and subjective medical expenses risk pp. 1191-1231

Daniel Kaliski

Revisiting the Productivity Effects of Public Capital pp. 1233-1264

Zhezhi Hou, Shunan Zhao and Subal C. Kumbhakar

Firm retention and productivity of apprentices pp. 1265-1280

Jérémy Hervelin

Urban environmental evaluation using an affiliated private value auction model pp. 1281-1343

Hayato Nakanishi

Can new infrastructure promote regional economic development? An examination based on administrative boundaries pp. 1345-1377

Yuan Ma, Zi-ran Zhang and Yu-ling Yang

Economic activity and $$\hbox {CO}_2$$ CO 2 emissions in Spain pp. 1379-1408

Aránzazu Juan, Pilar Poncela and Esther Ruiz

The impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity: evidence from the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran pp. 1409-1428

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Sven Fischer

Revisiting the effects of cigarette taxation on smoking outcomes pp. 1429-1475

Vinish Shrestha

How do we measure trade elasticity for services? pp. 1477-1494

Satoshi Nakano and Kazuhiko Nishimura

Correction to: The individual Laffer curve: evidence from the Spanish income tax pp. 1495-1495

Ana Gamarra Rondinel, José Félix Sanz-Sanz and María Arrazola

Volume 68, issue 2, 2025

Stochastic instability: a dynamic quantile approach pp. 485-509

Jean-Paul Chavas

Revisiting precious metal mining stocks and precious metals as hedge, diversifiers and safe-havens: a multidimensional scaling and wavelet quantile correlation perspective pp. 511-533

Zubair Ahmad Parrey, Arif Dar and Manas Paul

Introducing shrinkage in heavy-tailed state space models to predict equity excess returns pp. 535-553

Florian Huber, Gregor Kastner and Michael Pfarrhofer

Pandemic, policy, and markets: insights and learning from COVID-19’s impact on global stock behavior pp. 555-583

Shuxin Yang

Estimating the impact of social distance policy in mitigating COVID-19 spread with factor-based imputation approach pp. 585-601

Difang Huang, Ying Liang, Boyao Wu and Yanyi Ye

COVID-19 diagnoses and university student performance: evidence from linked administrative health and education data pp. 603-637

Timothy F. Harris and Curtis Reynolds

Unconditional cash transfers and child schooling: a meta-analysis pp. 639-666

Zhi Zheng Chong and Siew Yee Lau

On the drivers of financial literacy: the role of intergenerational mobility pp. 667-695

Sara Lamboglia and Massimiliano Stacchini

Effect of media attention on corporate green technology innovation: mechanism and evidence from China pp. 697-727

Jingjing Deng, Yi Li, Yu Ding and Fengqi Liu

Does the Kyoto Protocol have a structural impact on the environmental Kuznets curve? An application of the varying coefficient model pp. 729-758

Chi-Yang Chu, Chien-Ho Wang and Wan-Jiun Chen

Modeling aggregate investment under financial constraints pp. 759-781

Dimitris Hatzinikolaou and Dimitrios Hatzinikolaou

Macroeconomic effects of monetary policy in Japan: an analysis using interest rate futures surprises pp. 783-801

Hiroyuki Kubota and Mototsugu Shintani

Euro area inflation differentials: the role of fiscal policies revisited pp. 803-854

Cristina Checherita-Westphal, Nadine Leiner-Killinger and Teresa Schildmann

Central bank information effects in Japan: the role of uncertainty channel pp. 855-877

Hiroshi Morita, Ryo Matsumoto and Taiki Ono

Instrumental variable estimation with observed and unobserved heterogeneity of the treatment and instrument effect: a latent class approach pp. 879-914

Pablo Rodriguez and Mauricio Sarrias

Import shock and local labour market outcomes: A Sino-Indian case study pp. 915-962

Feiyang Shi

Volume 68, issue 1, 2025

Random Forest estimation of the ordered choice model pp. 1-106

Michael Lechner and Gabriel Okasa

Measuring and explaining efficiency of pre-vaccine country responses to COVID-19 pandemic: a conditional robust nonparametric approach pp. 107-137

Arthur S. Kuchenbecker, Hudson S. Torrent and Flavio A. Ziegelmann

The hiring of older workers: evidence from Germany pp. 139-163

Fabian Busch, Robert Fenge and Carsten Ochsen

From past to present: ancestry and student achievement in Brazil pp. 165-212

Daniel Lopes, Geraldo Silva Filho and Leonardo Monasterio

This must be the place: local amenities and superstars’ wages pp. 213-235

Mattia Filomena and Francesco Principe

A new investigation into whether households are excessively sensitive to predictable changes in income pp. 237-252

Charles Grant

Housing prices and import competition pp. 253-280

Sheida Teimouri and Joachim Zietz

Short-run impact of electricity on social capital: evidence from a rural electricity program pp. 281-325

Ngawang Dendup, Dil Rahut and Yayue Xiao

Modelling green knowledge production and environmental policies with semiparametric panel data regression models pp. 327-352

Antonio Musolesi, Davide Golinelli and Massimiliano Mazzanti

How do climate policy uncertainty and renewable energy and clean technology stock prices co-move? evidence from Canada pp. 353-371

Seyed Alireza Athari and Dervis Kirikkaleli

Enhancing stock price prediction using GANs and transformer-based attention mechanisms pp. 373-403

Siyi Li and Sijie Xu

Are the loans of state-owned banks politically motivated? pp. 405-432

Erik Figueiredo, João Ricardo Faria, Jaime Orrillo and Rodrigo Pereira

Threshold mixed data sampling logit model with an application to forecasting US bank failures pp. 433-477

Lixiong Yang, Mingjian Ren and Jianming Bai

Rebuttal to “Historical state and its legacy: another perspective on Dai Viet-Khmer economic division in Vietnam” pp. 479-481

Melissa Dell, Nathaniel Lane and Pablo Querubin

Correction to: Rebuttal to “Historical state and its legacy: another perspective on Dai Viet–Khmer economic division in Vietnam” pp. 483-483

Melissa Dell, Nathaniel Lane and Pablo Querubin