Applied Economics Letters

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Volume 32, issue 6, 2025

Time-varying impact of supply chain pressures on US inflation pp. 727-735

Jae-Yoon Kim and Sangho Shin

Does credit asset securitization promote firm innovation? pp. 736-743

Meng Liao

Quantile connectedness of the Chinese commodity sectors pp. 744-750

Jun Long, Xianghui Yuan, Chencheng Zhao and Liwei Jin

Distributional effects of gasoline tax in Brazil pp. 751-756

Bruno Y. Hipólito, Leonardo C.B. Cardoso and Felipe de F. Silva

ETF ownership and stock price crash risk: evidence from China pp. 757-762

Jie Wu, Mi Zhou and Dayong Lv

Measurement of market power of agricultural industrial organizations in China: evidence from the Stochastic Frontier Approach pp. 763-769

Dan Yang, Yameng Fan, Ying Zeng and Zimin Liu

What affects the price of Bitcoin? Evidence from game theory and machine learning pp. 770-774

Mingchen Li, Wencan Lin, Yunjie Wei, Shouyang Wang and Jiani Heng

Clean cryptocurrency and green assets: a quantile connectedness approach pp. 775-783

Shi-Feng Shao, Yonglin Li and Jinhua Cheng

Global value chains and firm survivability during the COVID-19 pandemic: digitalization as the moderator? pp. 784-788

Sasidaran Gopalan, Sébastien Miroudot and Ketan Reddy

Industrial robot application and export product scope: empirical evidence from China pp. 789-795

Lianying Hong, Ranran Luo and Yuqi Wu

Can urban cluster policies improve innovation? Evidence from China pp. 796-802

Xiahai Wei, Hujian Li and Yuhong Du

Can climate risks affect cryptocurrency volatility? Fresh evidence from a GARCH-MIDAS-X model pp. 803-807

Yufei Xia, Yating Fu, Ziyi Zong and Qiong Zheng

Commodity price pass-through and inflation in Japan: a nonlinear time series analysis pp. 808-811

Atsushi Sekine

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 pp. 812-816

Pengfei Zhu, Tuantuan Lu and Yu Wei

Political polarization and price dispersion: recent evidence from the airline industry during COVID-19 pp. 817-824

Jihui Chen

Gibrat’s law for CO2 emissions revisited pp. 825-829

Guillermo Peña, Miguel Puente-Ajovín and Fernando Sanz Gracia

Sextortion and corruption pp. 830-834

Doris Aja-Eke, Robert Gillanders, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Windkouni Haoua Eugenie Maiga

Dynamic conditional correlation between green and grey energy ETF markets using cDCC-MGARCH model pp. 835-842

Amr Saber Algarhi

Does climate risk affect the performance of companies in China? pp. 843-849

Kun Guo, Liyuan Luan, Dayong Zhang and Qiang Ji

How consumer shopping habits affect willingness to embrace sustainable fashion pp. 850-855

Annarita Colasante, Idiano D’Adamo, Paolo Rosa and Piergiuseppe Morone

Do firms release boilerplate CSR reports to meet legitimacy requirements? pp. 856-862

Qian Sun, Qi Zhang, Qi Wang, Anni Wu and Di Wu

The fiscal effects of cross-prefectural border municipal mergers: evidence from Japan using the synthetic control method pp. 863-869

Haruaki Hirota

Corporate name change: the effect of the firm’s shareholder distribution pp. 870-894

Ashish Kumar

Impact of fintech on bank risks: the role of bank digital transformation pp. 895-899

Xin Li

Volume 32, issue 5, 2025

Social proximity and urban innovation: a megalopolis perspective pp. 587-591

Cui Zhang, Baifang Wang and Jiali Ye

Second-generation involvement, ESG performance and family firm value pp. 592-595

Mengyun Wu, Yuqing Zhu and Fei Zhang

Does hedge fund activism affect corporate social responsibility: evidence from China pp. 596-602

Endian Yan, Lu Li, Hongyi Shen, Xueding Wang and Erjia Yang

A cultural perspective of natural resource curse in finance pp. 603-607

Muhammad Atif Khan, Muhammad Asif Khan, M. Ishaq Bhatti and Mohammed Arshad Khan

The gender gap in digital literacy: a cohort analysis for Germany pp. 608-613

Ronald Bachmann and Friederike Hertweck

The impact of the triangular US dollar, oil, and gold model on global inflation pp. 614-618

Youqiang Ding, Yufeng Hu and Zhibin Zhang

Exuberant behaviour in the Istanbul housing market before and during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the aggregate and disaggregate levels pp. 619-623

Lokman Gunduz, Sumeyye Busra Tekin, Merve Ozer and Ismail H. Genc

Experimental evidence for the effect of fundraising mechanisms and charitable types on individual donations pp. 624-629

Hsin-Yu Wang and Hui-Chun Peng

Taking logarithm when the independent variable contains zeros in regression analysis: a new approach pp. 630-636

Donald Lien, Yue Hu and Long Liu

Does digital finance promote entrepreneurship? Evidence from city-level and household-level data in China pp. 637-643

Ke Zhang and Jing Pang

The impact of business environment on corporate default risk: evidence from China pp. 644-651

Jianxiang Liu and Wen Yu Yi

Effect of Internet use on people’s attitudes towards the construction of garbage station pp. 652-657

Jiaping Zhang, Xiaomei Gong and Lilian Li

Is SME performance enhanced by preferential government policies? Evidence from the small-scale reservation industry policy in Korea pp. 658-664

Namil Kim and Kiho Kwak

The promotion effect of digital finance development on residents’ risk preference: evidence from China pp. 665-670

Tianqi Bian, Zhangyong Xu and Tan Liu

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 pp. 671-674

Ming-Hung Wu, Wei-Ling Huang and Pei-Shih Weng

Are you ready for risk? Lender time preferences and risk attitudes in peer-to-peer lending platforms pp. 675-679

Zeev Shtudiner, Galit Klein and Moti Zwilling

Macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in low- and mid-income countries: new evidence using a non-parametric approach pp. 680-685

Quang Khai Nguyen

Does all-mail voting matter for school elections? pp. 686-692

Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and Joydeep Roy

Investor reactions to board changes: does gender matter? pp. 693-696

Anthony Sanford and Joannie Tremblay-Boire

Quantity or quality? The impacts of environmental regulation and government R&D funding on green technology innovation: evidence from China pp. 697-701

Chen Pan and Chaohua Dong

Testing the twin deficit hypothesis for resource-rich economies in the era of climate change pp. 702-707

Sarvar Gurbanov, Orkhan Nadirov, Samira Gasimova, Elmir Mukhtarov and Bruce Dehning

The effect of warning signals from health check-ups on modifiable lifestyle risk factors: evidence from mandatory health check-ups for employees in Japan pp. 708-714

Chie Hanaoka

Economics of institutional quality in the nexus of innovation, technology, and financial market development: international evidence pp. 715-720

Peng Zhou, Ming Su and Yang Zheng

Gender gap in financial inclusion and financial stability: does climate risk make a difference? pp. 721-725

Saibal Ghosh

Correction pp. 726-726

The Editors

Volume 32, issue 4, 2025

The impact of local banking structure on foreign bank expansion: evidence from China pp. 449-453

Xifang Sun and Tianjian Yang

Do changes in the Capital Gains Tax lead to illicit capital flows? Evidence from Ireland pp. 454-459

Fabian Möller

Is the ECB Monetary tightening effective? The role of bank funding and asset structure pp. 460-463

Matjaž Volk

Climate policy uncertainty and the green bond market: fresh insights from the QARDL model pp. 464-469

Xiaohang Ren, Yiying Li, Qiang Ji and Pengxiang Zhai

A wavelet-based time-frequency dependency and safe haven attributes of gold: evidence from the Russia–Ukraine war pp. 470-475

Suraj Velip, Mrunali Jambotkar and Savita Velip

Can public employment services improve employment opportunities of rural-to-urban migrant workers in China? pp. 476-480

Lilian Li, Mingwang Cheng, Kaifeng Duan, Wenshun Li and Dandan Zhao

Extracting narrative data via large language models for loan default prediction: when talk isn’t cheap pp. 481-486

Yufei Xia, Zhengxu Shi, Xiaoying Du and Qiong Zheng

Does bank branch expansion increase bank risk taking? ——Intermediary channels of loan-deposit spread pp. 487-490

Yingying Zhang, Haifeng Gu and Feng Xiong

Bubbles in NFT markets: correlated with cryptocurrencies or sentiment indexes? pp. 491-497

Mingjun Guo, Shouyang Wang and Yunjie Wei

Time-frequency cross-quantile liquidity connectedness of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens and NFTs pp. 498-504

Xi Deng, Huiming Zhu, Shuang Li, Zishan Huang and Xi Huang

FDI and women empowerment in developing countries: does the entry heterogeneity matter? pp. 505-509

Ayesha Ashraf, Syeda Azra Batool and Elzbieta Jasinska

Vertically differentiated duopoly with uncertain taste distributions pp. 510-517

Sungmin Lim and Younghwan In

“Do it myself” or “do it for me”?: focusing on behavioural and needs aspects of investment decision among retirement plan participants pp. 518-522

HanNa Lim, Richard Stebbins and Travis Sholin

Spatial peer effect of retail stores’ digital transformation: an analysis using the survey data from China pp. 523-527

Bing Zheng, Yuqing Yuan and Kaibo Lv

Why do the firms of a developing economy go abroad to invest? pp. 528-537

Gökhan Önder, Zeynep Karal Önder, Yılmaz Kılıçaslan and Yeşim Üçdoğruk Gürel

Can data assets spur corporate R&D investment? pp. 538-545

Xiaojia Zheng, Xuebin Zhang and Ge Yang

Can the Belt and Road Initiative affect the “invisible” external wealth? The role of valuation effect pp. 546-552

Wei Liu, Zhihui Zhao, Ganqiu Chen and Wenjing Du

The impact of tax evasion by the rich on the willingness to pay taxes pp. 553-556

Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Camilo A. Cepeda-Francese, Alice Krozer and Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez

Heterogeneous peer effects in competitive environments: the case of high-school harriers pp. 557-562

Nathan J. Ashby

The (menu) price effect of a Michelin star pp. 563-566

Lee A. Craig, Julianne Treme and Thomas J. Weiss

Effects of bilateral trade and common trade exposure on business cycle synchronization: evidence from Korea pp. 567-571

Kichun Kang

The social welfare effect of education expansion: empirical evidence from China pp. 572-575

Guanghua Wan, Chen Wang, Fengyuan Xi and Congmin Zuo

Does the pilot free trade zone policy increase regional innovation ability? Evidence from China pp. 576-581

Bing He, Sensen Tian and Xiaoyu Zhang

How does intellectual property protection matter? Infringement disputes and corporate innovation investment persistence pp. 582-585

Hongxing Peng and Yuanyuan Xu

Volume 32, issue 3, 2025

Is China’s hog futures market effective? Based on the perspective of price discovery and hedging functions pp. 295-301

Chengliang Peng

Does education reduce the tendency to give the ‘No-opinion’ response in surveys? Findings from Turkey pp. 302-311

Ali Berker

Comparing the US financing sources during World wars and pandemics (Spanish flu vs. COVID-19) pp. 312-315

Edoardo Beretta and Emilio Colombo

Does big data application improve Chinese firms’ innovation: the role of talent accessibility pp. 316-320

Jun Yang, Xinxin Lyu, Xiaohui Xu, Mobing Jiang and Pin Lyu

Educated to be interested in science? Evidence from a change in compulsory schooling in Turkey pp. 321-328

Ali Berker

Regional Okun’s law and endogeneity: evidence from the Indonesian districts pp. 329-336

Harry Aginta, Carlos Mendez and Masakazu Someya

Unveiling differential patterns in IPO and SEO underpricing: a comparative analysis of high-quality and low-quality firms pp. 337-345

Amrit Panda and Soumya Guha Deb

Coping with education supply shocks: how COVID-19 affected parents’ time spent on children’s education pp. 346-350

Nicola Coniglio, Rezart Hoxhaj and Hubert Jayet

Pricing strategy for products with consumption synergy pp. 351-356

Zhewei Xi, Guoqiang Lou and Youze Lang

Does driving restriction affect air quality: evidence from Guangzhou city in China pp. 357-364

Zheng Pan, Xuxian Zhang and Chengzheng Li

Investing in cryptocurrencies with information costs pp. 365-368

Valentinas Rudys and Daniel Svogun

Recent trends in the gender wage gap in Portugal: a distributional analysis pp. 369-372

Aurora Galego

E-commerce development, time allocation and the gender division of labour: evidence from rural China pp. 373-378

Yutong Li and Lan Zhou

New evidence on the nature of shocks to divorce rates pp. 379-383

Jamal G. Husein and S. Murat Kara

Asymmetric effects of tariff news on the renminbi exchange rate volatility: evidence from the US–China trade war pp. 384-390

Yike Sun

Graduate education and enterprise innovation pp. 391-397

JingJing Yang, Silei Li and Caifu Li

How does climate change affect migration intention? Evidence from China pp. 398-409

Shuai Yue, Chunan Wang, Houlian Liu and Zhuang Hao

Does FDI enhance the effects of heterogeneous environmental regulations on green innovation in China? Evidence from spatial Durbin model analysis pp. 410-414

Juntian Wang and Chunyang Wang

Fractal portfolio strategies: does scale preference of investors matter? pp. 415-421

Shinji Kakinaka, Tadaaki Hayakawa, Daisuke Kato and Ken Umeno

Stepping stone or stumbling block? The effect of stock index inclusions on firm performance pp. 422-428

Tianyu Bai, Zhongfei Li, Yuanjing Lin and Haiping Liu

Granger causality between public debt and economic growth: further evidence from panel data pp. 429-434

María Del Carmen Ramos-Herrera and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Inventory stockpiling and Covid-19 pandemic performance: evidence from Taiwanese firms pp. 435-440

Ngoc Thuy Mai, Jung-Fa Tsai and Dien Giau Bui

Impact of enterprise digital transformation on high-quality economic development in China pp. 441-444

Yanpeng Chen, Tajul Ariffin Masron and Ruixi Yuan

Endogenous timing with upstream entry pp. 445-448

Ryosuke Tsuritani

Volume 32, issue 2, 2025

The impact of country risk on OFDI: empirical analysis based on cross-border panel data pp. 151-156

Ziwang Chen, Juan Yang, Wenqing Wang and Yuwei Liu

Green finance: do innovation, fintech and financial transparency play a role? pp. 157-160

Mete Feridun

Impact of low interest rates on income inequality: evidence from China pp. 161-164

Mizhou Chen and Pan Li

Digital transformation and corporate Labor costs for ordinary employees pp. 165-169

Ying Wu, Li Deng and Wen Huang

Labour productivity convergence in the Czech Republic pp. 170-173

Umut Unal and Jitka Specianova

The impact of gasoline price changes on food expenditures pp. 174-178

Najmeh Kamyabi and Amir Fekrazad

The Euribor rate: a forecasting exercise based on fractional integration pp. 179-182

Juan Cuestas and Luis Gil-Alana

Do older adults accurately forecast their social security benefits? pp. 183-187

Grant Seiter and Sita Slavov

Going digital: do actions speak louder than words? pp. 188-192

Zhuowen Huang and Kian-Ping Lim

The impact of CBDC adoption on bank liquidity risk: evidence from the global banking sector pp. 193-198

Dinh Trung Nguyen, Minh Ngoc Nguyen and Kim Thanh Duong

Corporate financing constraints and export product quality: based on the perspective of dual institutional differences pp. 199-203

Dameng Hu, Yuanzhe Huang and Haoran Ge

Do Artificial Intelligence applications affect firm stock liquidity? Evidence from China pp. 204-209

Yilin Zhong, Junhao Zhong, Tianjian Yang, Minghui Han and Qinghua Zhang

The Calvo parameter revisited: an unbiased insight pp. 210-217

Ali Elminejad

Financial sanctions and the share of US dollar in global reserve currencies: evidence from the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) model pp. 218-221

Aliyu Sanusi, Suleiman Mamman, Jamilu Iliyasu and Attahir B. Abubakar

Bias in Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood estimation of structural gravity models: how much of a problem for applied research? pp. 222-227

Ben Shepherd

Don’t bite off more than you can chew: commodity price volatility and corporate innovation pp. 228-235

Xiao-Dong Xu, Juan Wang and Ya-Yu Mu

Information advantage of narratives to consumers’ inflation forecasts pp. 236-241

Yoichi Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Takemura and Takashi Udagawa

Bank health, lines of credit, and corporate investment: evidence from the Great Recession pp. 242-247

Wei Zhang, Anne Macy and Huabing Wang

Measuring the unmeasurable: CSR divergence and future stock price crash risk pp. 248-258

Weijia Hu, Rui Du, Yu-En Lin and Gui-Ling Huang

Explanatory factors of French retail wine prices pp. 259-262

Christian M. Hafner

The short-term impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on carbon emissions: causal evidence from China pp. 263-269

Sitong Pan

The heterogeneous effects of education on relative deprivation: evidence from migrants in China pp. 270-275

Yucheng Sun and Zhewen Pan

Effects of education on elderly care preferences pp. 276-285

Pelin Akyol

A new salient factor and equity returns: empirical evidence from A-Shares pp. 286-294

Hailin Zhou, Zhangzhi Hu and Xinyu Wu

Volume 32, issue 1, 2025

An empirical note on university rankings pp. 1-4

Kang Hua Cao, Chi-Keung Woo and Yi Shi

What drives Basel III implementation? A cross-country empirical investigation pp. 5-8

Mete Feridun

Does artificial intelligence improve the quality of export products? Evidence from China pp. 9-13

Xiaohui Xu and Chenchen Tian

Regional trade networks and income inequality pp. 14-22

Yuheng Liang and Ming Zhang

An economic approach to gun control: analysis of the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020 pp. 23-27

Joseph G. Eisenhauer

Deriving technology indicators from corporate websites: a comparative assessment using patents pp. 28-41

Sebastian Heinrich

Does judicial informatization affect firms’ digital innovation intention during the COVID-19 pandemic? pp. 42-47

Panpan Zheng, Zhen Li and Ziyin Zhuang

Sample selection models with common endogeneity in the selection and outcome: revisiting the family gap pp. 48-51

Grace Arnold and Riju Joshi

Reasons for the heterogeneity of regional innovation policy on innovation output: considering the influence of policy sentiment pp. 52-57

Haoyue Zhang, Zhengwen Song and Kun Xu

The drug overdose death epidemic: evidence from U.S. Counties pp. 58-61

Tomi Ovaska, Albert Sumell and Yogesh Uppal

The impact of birth order among descendant family CEOs on family firm earnings management pp. 62-66

He Soung Ahn and Seung Uk Choi

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on audit quality: evidence from China pp. 67-72

Rongbing Huang

Group size uncertainty in common pool resource dilemmas pp. 73-77

Hironori Otsubo

Disaster relief and regional employment: the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake pp. 78-86

Tomomi Miyazaki

Temperature highs, climate change salience, and Eco-anxiety: early evidence from the 2022 United Kingdom heatwave pp. 87-94

Alexandru Savu

How do repeated data breaches affect firm policies? pp. 95-102

Jin Peng, Haofei Zhang, Juan Mao and Shouhuai Xu

Market integration and consumer spending pp. 103-109

Shuyue Qin and Yumeng Zhang

The nonlinear impact of co-agglomeration between logistics and manufacturing industries on regional economic resilience: an empirical study pp. 110-114

Haojun Wang, Xiao Su and Jun M. Liu

The effect of income on satisfaction with spouse’s economic contribution in China pp. 115-120

Yunchao Cai, Jing Pang and Junlu Ha

Decomposing Okun’s law: evidence for the United States, 1970–2021 pp. 121-124

Oscar Peláez-Herreros

External shocks and corporate performance: evidence from the 2011 Fukushima earthquake pp. 125-130

Man Zhang and Chao Wang

Fiscal policy for stabilization during the COVID-19 crisis: the role of social spending pp. 131-134

Philipp Heimberger

How fintech adoption is affecting the size of rural bank lending? pp. 135-140

Nan Chao and Haifen Yang

Management team stability and financing constraints pp. 141-145

Zhenge Peng, Wenbin Yang and Jiaqi Mou

Correction Notice pp. 146-146

The Editors

Correction pp. 147-147

The Editors

Correction pp. 148-149

The Editors