Empirical Economics

1976 - 2025

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Volume 69, issue 6, 2025

Forecasting using a random coefficient autoregression pp. 3001-3017

Philip Hans Franses and Dmitriy Knyazhitskiy

Econometric analysis of the long-run relationship between preventive care spending and mortality: evidence from OECD countries, 1970–2019 pp. 3019-3044

Mehdi Ammi and Farzaneh Davarzani

The heterogeneous impact of monetary policy announcements on firms’ financial outcomes pp. 3045-3087

Okan Akarsu, Mehmet Selman Çolak, Hatice Karahan and Huzeyfe Torun

Quantitative easing, tightening, and the term premium channel in the Euro Area pp. 3089-3125

Etienne Vaccaro-Grange

Impact of noninterest business on the bank lending channel of monetary policy: evidence from China pp. 3127-3181

Chuang Shen, Junyi Wu and Qian Chen

Monetary policy transmission over house price cycles pp. 3183-3204

Seungyoon Lee

Oil-macroeconomy relationship over time: Does oil still matter? pp. 3205-3225

Mohsen Bakhshi Moghaddam and Saeed Moshiri

Asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on US business sentiment: evidence from the ISM manufacturing index pp. 3227-3249

Dohyoung Kwon

The Jedi path to formal economy: untangling the causal effects of development on informality in Africa pp. 3251-3291

Fayssal Ayad

Environmental regulation and firm markup: evidence from $$\hbox {SO}_2$$ SO 2 reduction policy in China pp. 3293-3335

Tingsi Wang and Ruohao Zhang

Same pollution but different health impact: the role of economic condition pp. 3337-3365

Xuemei Zhang, Haitao Yin and Feng Wang

Friendship–kinship network and access to bank credit in India pp. 3367-3402

Pallabi Chakraborty and Amarjyoti Mahanta

Everyone knows what you did: evidence from public disclosure of travel logs pp. 3403-3436

Chungeun Yoon

Product lines and new product introduction: competition versus cannibalization in the personal computer industry pp. 3437-3461

George Deltas and Eleftherios Zacharias

Firm investment, financial constraints and agency costs: evidence from India pp. 3463-3509

Meera Ancy Vincent, Pranab Kumar Das and Samaresh Bardhan

What contributes to SME vs. large firm resilience to economic crisis in developing countries? A decomposition analysis based on the COVID-19 shock pp. 3511-3545

Mohammad Amin, Filip Jolevski and Asif M. Islam

Place-based policies develop digital enterprises: evidence from digital parks pp. 3547-3588

Xinju He, Lanxin Liu, Hu Fu, Chuanjiang Yu and Sudong Hua

Impact of data element development on the application of artificial intelligence in enterprises pp. 3589-3634

Fang Tang and Longpeng Zhang

The illusion of golden slumbers: geopolitical turbulence and the shifting link between gold and interest rates pp. 3635-3662

Michele Andreani and Marco Tedeschi

Intellectual property education and corporate collaborative innovation: evidence from China pp. 3663-3716

Huake Liu, Frank Min Song, Yulin Yang and Yuyan Li

Correction: Intellectual property education and corporate collaborative innovation: evidence from China pp. 3717-3720

Huake Liu, Frank Min Song, Yulin Yang and Yuyan Li

Appraisal quality and loan characteristics: evidence from Newcomb–Benford Law pp. 3721-3758

Hong Lee and Joseph R. Mason

Dynamic relationship between information dissemination by local governors and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 3759-3845

Yasuhiro Hara

Correction: Dynamic relationship between information dissemination by local governors and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 3847-3847

Yasuhiro Hara

The impact of trade openness on perceived income inequality: evidence from China pp. 3849-3887

Xiaofan Liu and Tian Liu

Distributional impacts of global warming on wealth inequality: evidence from global panel of regions pp. 3889-3933

Naveen Kumar and Dibyendu Maiti

Labour market inequality among Central and Eastern European countries: an emphasis on the gender employment and pay gap pp. 3935-3966

Dennis Nchor and Radek Náplava

Consequences of job loss for routine workers pp. 3967-3992

Yaroslav Yakymovych

How adolescent adversity affects late-life fertility outcomes: evidence from China pp. 3993-4032

Shuang Yu, Subo Yang and Yinhe Liang

Smoking damages your wages, but heavy drinking aggravates the damages pp. 4033-4055

Chee Kian Leong and Lefan Liu

Non-transitive patterns in sports match outcomes: a profitable anomaly pp. 4057-4087

Jan C. van Ours

Volume 69, issue 5, 2025

Productivity, Panel Data and Applied Econometrics: A Special Issue of Empirical Economics in Honor of Robin C. Sickles pp. 2539-2543

Badi H. Baltagi and Subal Kumbhakar

Two-way fixed effects, the two-way mundlak regression, and difference-in-differences estimators pp. 2545-2587

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

A selective review of panel approaches to construct counterfactuals pp. 2589-2608

Cheng Hsiao

A randomly swapped bootstrap for paired data: testing equality of distribution for correlated samples pp. 2609-2626

Wei Siang Wang, Christine Amsler and Peter Schmidt

Are operationally efficient firms greener? pp. 2627-2669

Zhao Wang, Yuanlu Suo, Taining Wang and Subal C. Kumbhakar

Estimating flexible functional forms using macroeconomic data pp. 2671-2697

W. Erwin Diewert, Koji Nomura and Chihiro Shimizu

Forecasting U.S. social security disability applications: a spatial dynamic panel data model approach pp. 2699-2725

Kajal Lahiri, Cheng Yang and Yimeng Yin

The impact of measurement error on trends in earnings inequality in the USA pp. 2727-2753

Daniel L. Millimet and Christopher F. Parmeter

Racial and ethnic differences in quitting when marijuana retail markets are legal: evidence from California pp. 2755-2781

Jenny Williams, Rosalie Pacula and Rosanna Smart

Spatial stochastic frontier model with stochastic weighting matrix pp. 2783-2815

Ming-Yu Deng and Levent Kutlu

Sectoral trade elasticities and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of the European regions pp. 2817-2863

André Carrascal-Incera and Luis Orea

Efficiency of Queensland public hospitals via spatial panel stochastic frontier models pp. 2865-2900

Bao Hoang Nguyen, Zhichao Wang and Valentin Zelenyuk

Handling multiple proxies pp. 2901-2926

Erik Meijer, Agnieszka Postepska and Tom Wansbeek

Beyond geography: house price covariance and socio-economic distance in homeownership decisions pp. 2927-2971

Xintong Yang, Yichen Gao and Qi Li

Peer effects with sample selection: an application in online job training pp. 2973-3000

Xin Gu, Haizheng Li, Zhongjian Lin and Xun Tang

Volume 69, issue 4, 2025

Monetary policy spillovers from the USA to advanced and emerging economies pp. 1631-1670

M. M. Islam Chowdhury and Apostolos Serletis

Regional effects of monetary policy in China pp. 1671-1698

Makram El-Shagi and Kiril Tochkov

Fiscal decentralization: the effect of transfers on public works in Brazil pp. 1699-1723

Joebson Maurilio Alves Santos, Tatiane Almeida Menezes, Edilberto Almeida, João Eudes Bezerra Filho and Sebastião Rodrigo Gonçalves Lima

Comply and invest: the effect of EU fiscal rules on public investment pp. 1725-1750

Martin Larch and Wouter van der Wielen

Do the level of government debt and economic development matter in the impact of fiscal rules on fiscal performance? Evidence from the dynamic panel threshold model pp. 1751-1778

Oguzhan Yelkesen and Pelin Varol Iyidogan

Cross-country dependence and financial integration in the last 150 years pp. 1779-1820

Nektarios Aslanidis and Charalampos Papadakis

Sectoral FDI and environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of sustainable investment pp. 1821-1850

Abdulrasheed Zakari, Thanh Le and Rabindra Nepal

Territorial income differences and dynamics within Latin American countries pp. 1851-1895

Olivia S. D’Aoust, Virgilio Galdo and Elena Ianchovichina

The extensive margin of trade, common trade exposure, and GDP comovement: the case of South Korea pp. 1897-1921

Kichun Kang

Global value chains and industrial agglomeration: evidence from manufacturing industries in China pp. 1923-1961

Min Deng, Xiguang Cao, Tianyi Zhang and Qisheng Zhang

Impulsion or propagation? Large firms and the business cycle in a developing economy pp. 1963-1994

Ali Elguellab and Elhadj Ezzahid

An empirical analysis of downside risk and inefficiency in U.S. real estate funds pp. 1995-2025

Abbas Valadkhani, Amir Moradi-Motlagh and Barry O’Mahony

Is the Fama and French three factor model robust to the pricing of risk preferences? pp. 2027-2063

Oghenovo A. Obrimah

Novel modeling for assessment of extreme values risk in cryptocurrencies portfolio pp. 2065-2092

Shafique Ur Rehman, Touqeer Ahmad and Desheng Wu

A copula-based method for accommodating feedback in random effects panel models pp. 2093-2108

David Zimmer

Nonparametric analysis of the mixed-demand model pp. 2109-2140

Per Hjertstrand

Cognitive biases in consumer sentiment: the peak-end rule and herding pp. 2141-2211

Erik Kole, Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens and Bas Vringer

Family education and intergenerational income mobility—evidence from the resumption of quasi-natural experiments in China’s National College Entrance Examination pp. 2213-2240

Yanchao Xu and Lulu Wang

Income inequality, occupational choice, and intergenerational mobility in China pp. 2241-2265

Yingfeng Fang and Haoliang Hu

Skilled labor convergence across Turkish regions: a club convergence algorithm approach pp. 2267-2309

Bilge Eriş-Dereli and Mehmet Pinar

The impact of drought on farm economic performance: evidence from Sweden pp. 2311-2337

Shaibu Mellon Bedi, Pia Nilsson and Helena Hansson

High temperatures and workplace injuries pp. 2339-2369

Matteo Picchio and Jan C. Ours

Coping with health shocks in American households: evidence from survey of income and program participation pp. 2371-2412

Yuan Fang, Chun-Yu Ho and Kajal Lahiri

The short-term effect of a COVID-19 infection on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands pp. 2413-2443

Henri Bussink, Tobias Vervliet and Bas Weel

Research on economic impact of social-distancing measures in the context of the epidemic–empirical evidence from high frequency data of four municipalities pp. 2445-2466

Yundong Xiao

Identifying high-risk elderly for suicide using machine learning pp. 2467-2499

Hwanoong Lee and Kahyun Lee

When labour market flexibility hinders innovation: a cross-country panel quantile analysis for manufacturing firms pp. 2501-2537

Rupika Khanna and Chandan Sharma

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. 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