Applied Economics Letters

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Volume 33, issue 6, 2026

Bureacractic costs and firm behavior pp. 765-769

John E. Anderson

Digital trading platforms: bridging risk tolerance and increased trade frequency during the pandemic pp. 770-774

Yu Zhang and Jia Qi

Cryptocurrencies and capital flows: evidence from El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin pp. 775-780

Stefan Goldbach and Volker Nitsch

Contributions of demand and supply shocks to inflation in the euro area countries* pp. 781-786

Roberts Liepnieks, Karsten Staehr and Olegs Tkacevs

Optimizing the moving average trade rule for cryptocurrencies: implications of band size and transaction costs pp. 787-790

Daniel Svogun and Valentinas Rudys

Can better elderly care lead to a better quality of life? Evidence from China’s government purchasing of elderly care services policy pp. 791-795

Wenxi Zhao and Hengxu Liu

Left-tail momentum and right-tail reversal: does trading attenuate or exacerbate the anomaly? pp. 796-800

Mingmao Deng, Zhiyuan Wang and Xiaoyuan Wan

Occupational Licensing restrictions and early-stage entrepreneurship: a US state-level analysis pp. 801-805

John A. Dove and Noah J. Trudeau

Gendered differences in trade margins: evidence from grain value chains in Nigeria pp. 806-814

Michael Olabisi, Ashafa Sambo, Mywish Maredia, Hakeem A. Ajeigbe and Toyin Ajibade

“Darling, time horizon matters”: applying the CNN-LSTM method for predicting US equity ETFs pp. 815-820

Wenguang Lin

How does Hamas–Israel war impact stock markets in the Middle East? Country and sector-level analysis pp. 821-829

Mondher Bouattour, Amine Ben Amar and Néjib Hachicha

The (dis-)equalizing effects of production networks pp. 830-834

Leonhard Ipsen and Jan Schulz

Covid-19 and firm communication: how do mobility constraints affect the conference call sentiment? pp. 835-847

Wenyao Hu and Heng Wang

The effect of household cooking fuel transition on self-rated health: evidence from China pp. 848-854

Lili Wu, Qin Liu, Lin Li and Jiajia Fang

Work from home, polarization, and new residential construction during COVID-19 pp. 855-859

Dylan Brewer and Graham Lewis

How to facilitate in-depth digitalization in enterprises? pp. 860-864

Junwei Wu, Cunyi Yang and Guang Zhang

The impact of the digital economy on carbon emission intensity from the environmental regulation perspective pp. 865-870

Chenyu Meng, Qiuyue Yin and Yongsheng Lin

Firm gender labour supply elasticities and sources of separation: evidence from Chile pp. 871-875

Rafael Sanchez, Javier Finot and Mauricio Villena

How does leverage manipulation affect corporate default risk? pp. 876-882

Lili Chen and Jianxiang Liu

Historical pathogen prevalence, collectivism, and different forms of entrepreneurship pp. 883-887

Yida Tao and Xiaoyu Yu

Absorption and profitability: evidence from the expansion of pan-African banks pp. 888-892

Germain Lankoande and Kevin Moran

Deep adaptive ensemble learning for imbalanced credit card fraud detection pp. 893-899

Feifen Shi and Chuanjun Zhao

Promoting small businesses’ access to credit and innovation through a reform of the bankruptcy system: evidence from Slovenia pp. 900-905

Marcus Dejardin, Luca Farè and Eric Toulemonde

Insider trading profitability in geographically diversified firms: does managerial ability matter? pp. 906-915

Chen Li, Mazhar Islam and Shantanu Dutta

Volume 33, issue 5, 2026

Government subsidies, supply chain development and firm valuation pp. 631-636

Zhaotong Li, Yanzhe Ji and Jianxiang Liu

Credit risk early warning for listed companies based on ESG information: evidence from China pp. 637-640

Xia Miao and Zi Nie

Household characteristics and electric vehicle adoption: changes from 2017 to 2022 pp. 641-644

Stephen L. Locke

Investigating the persistence degree of environmental patent: application of panel SPSM-quantile unit root test pp. 645-650

Li-Chuan Liao, Tsangyao Chang and Omid Ranjbar

Navigating uncertainty: analysing its impact on the fertilizers industry through listed companies pp. 651-656

Benaissa Chidmi, Laura Raisa Miloș and Marius Cristian Miloș

How population ageing affects tourism trade balance pp. 657-660

Thasinul Abedin and Rajarshi Mitra

Testing the unit root of social, environmental, and governance stock price indexes using a multivariate ARDL model pp. 661-667

Yi-Ting Peng and Tsangyao Chang

Convergence in economic complexity: global evidence pp. 668-675

Chin Man Chui, Wisdom Kwabla Dewortor, Nnaelue Godfrey Ojijieme, Cody Yu-Ling Hsiao and Yujing Cai

Does the deleveraging policy exacerbate tunneling? Empirical evidence from China pp. 676-682

Xin Lin

Operational efficiency, agency costs and the mediating role of payout policy pp. 683-687

Vikas Sangwan, Shivam Kushwaha, Ramswarup Arjunsingh Bhaskar and Abhinav Kumar Rajverma

The death of language barriers? An empirical study based on China’s cross-border e-commerce pp. 688-692

Shuzhong Ma, Daohan Zhang and Xueyao Guo

Geopolitical risk and credit rating: evidence from North Korea’s threats pp. 693-696

Yong Mi Kim and Sang Hyuk Lee

Do unrealized bank losses affect loan pricing? pp. 697-701

Matjaž Volk

Regime-dependent wheat price volatilities pp. 702-705

Fangyi Zhang, Alan Ker and Satheesh Aradhyula

More childcare for the poor? Budgetary impacts and female labour supply responses in Italy, Austria and Hungary pp. 706-711

Edlira Narazani, Michael Christl and Francesco Figari

A new high-frequency volatility forecasting model for crude oil market—evidence from RGARCH-CARR-MIDAS model pp. 712-718

Zhenlong Chen, Junjie Liu and Xiaozhen Hao

Perceived co-worker attractiveness and task performance in work groups pp. 719-725

Adrian Chadi and Konstantin Homolka

Transparency and forecasting: the impact of conditioning assumptions on forecast accuracy pp. 726-730

Katja Heinisch, Christoph Schult and Carola Stapper

Stuck in the middle: the conundrum of firms’ responsiveness to environmental policy in shale production pp. 731-735

Alexandre Scarcioffolo, Douglas Mugabe and Shishir Shakya

Gender gap in consumer expectations pp. 736-741

Hector Sandoval

On the testing of Adaptive Markets Hypothesis using rolling windows pp. 742-746

Viktor Hřebačka

How export firms respond to the public procurement localization of destination countries: evidence from China pp. 747-752

Zeyang Jin, Xiao Feng and Junchao Dong

A different outcome for unemployment and labour force participation: the discouraged female worker by male unemployment pp. 753-757

Sinan Yildirim

Strong financial regulation and interbank activities in China pp. 758-764

Yuan Zheng

Volume 33, issue 4, 2026

Investigating the influence of energy dynamics on price forecasts in tropical and traditional agricultural futures markets pp. 473-482

Wei Zhang, Jiayi Wu, Shun Wang and Yong Zhang

Exploring calendar effects: the impact of WASDE releases on grain futures market volatility pp. 483-488

Keehyun Lee and Eunchun Park

The role of opportunity versus effort in shaping long-term well-being in China pp. 489-495

Yongkun He, Di Qi, Qi Fan and Yunsi Chen

Supply chain risks and corporate innovation strategy: from the perspective of breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation pp. 496-501

Wei Liu, Qianru Zhuo, Libin Qin and Ying Liu

Assessing the trade response to pandemic-related non-tariff measures pp. 502-510

Soojung Ahn and Sandro Steinbach

Enterprise digital transformation and maturity mismatch: evidence from China pp. 511-515

Yan Chen, Ruiqi Sun and Tianyu Zhang

Taylor rules during a pandemic: a counterfactual exercise pp. 516-523

Marcelo Arbex, Michael Batu and Sidney Caetano

Structural monetary policy and credit accessibility: a quasi-experiment of CERF in China pp. 524-530

Jiahe Tian, Tingfeng Jiang and Yuchen Sun

Re-investigating the linkage between buildings’ energy efficiency and mortgage rates pp. 531-536

Laura Götz

Recovering risk aversion from Bitcoin option prices and realized returns pp. 537-541

Zhiyong Cheng

Beyond support and plunder? Government procurement and firm digital transformation in China pp. 542-546

Yanyin Li, Rong Xu and Weilin Zhao

The quality of political signals and corporate payouts pp. 547-552

Thanh Cong Nguyen, Tien Ho Thuy and Van Toan Ngo

Empirical analysis of the J-Curve and Marshall-Lerner condition: impacts of macroeconomic shocks on the Brazilian trade balance using a Bayesian SVAR Identified via heteroskedasticity pp. 553-560

Thiago Drummond de Mendonça Giudici and Elcyon Caiado Rocha Lima

Climate risk exposure and corporate financial distress pp. 561-567

WeiWei Li, Junwen Yang and Zihao Ning

Macrofinancial interconnections in the Pacific Alliance: a quantile approach of stock markets and macroeconomic factors pp. 568-575

Orlando Joaqui-Barandica, Jesús Ancizar Gómez Daza and Sebastián López-Estrada

Nonlinear input cost pass-through to consumer prices: a threshold approach pp. 576-580

Takatoshi Sasaki, Hiroki Yamamoto and Jouchi Nakajima

Banking activities and natural disasters: empirical evidence from India pp. 581-587

Whelsy Boungou and Praveen Gupta

From scam to heist: the impact of cybercrimes on cryptocurrencies pp. 588-596

Azhar Mohamad and Dimitrios Dimitriou

Impact of carbon market prices on oil market fear across quantiles pp. 597-603

Jihong Xiao and Yan Zheng

Business cycles, real wages, and the quality of jobs pp. 604-608

Leandro Pereira da Rocha, Danielle Carusi Machado and Carlos Henrique Corseuil

Applying the LightGBM model and SHAP interpretation to understand the urban land price index and its influencing factors in China pp. 609-613

Chongle Huang, Limei Ma and Xiaoyu Li

China’s monetary policy: a hybrid rule in an open economy DSGE model with multiple equilibria pp. 614-617

Bo Zhang, Wen Xiao, Hong Yin and Wei Dai

The efficiency of public and private schools: do environmental conditions matter in a Latin American country? pp. 618-625

Juan Piedra-Peña, Mercy Orellana and Darwin Carchi

Wage patterns in West Berlin: a synthetic control approach after the fall of the wall pp. 626-629

Sergi Urzay-Gómez

Volume 33, issue 3, 2026

Study on the price risk exposure of Chinese agricultural enterprises pp. 319-324

Pengying Fan, Jiangfeng Sui and Zhichao Guo

Spatially differentiated minimum wages and inter-city investment flows: evidence from China pp. 325-329

Min Zhou and Luojia Wang

How does the China–US trade war affect third countries: evidence from Malaysian listed firms pp. 330-335

Chengfeng Chen and Siyi Chen

National culture and Islamic bank risk-taking in the Middle East and Asian countries pp. 336-340

Ani Silvia, V. Viverita and Dony Abdul Chalid

The impact of digital credit on bank liquidity creation based on the moderating role of prudential supervision pp. 341-346

Li Tao and Jianjun Sun

Can administrative monopoly regulation enhance corporate ESG performance? Evidence from the fair competition review system pp. 347-352

Xing Li, Jing Niu, Dan Yang, Zimin Liu and Gang Yang

Accelerated depreciation tax policy and multiple-product firms’ export behaviour: evidence from China pp. 353-358

Xiaohui Xu and Yi Liu

Time series properties of corporate credit rating transitions by regions and rating agencies pp. 359-365

Gyu-Sik Han and Young Kyu Kim

Aggregating closing position experts for online portfolio selection pp. 366-377

Xingyu Yang, Xiaoteng Zheng, Jiahao Li and Qingmei Huang

The impact of environmental, social, and governance performance on the duration of earnings sustainability: a survival analysis pp. 378-385

Pin-Sheng Lee and Yen-Yu Liu

Peer effects in the pursuit of further education pp. 386-390

Huajun Wu and Ning Neil Yu

Long-term credit and green innovation: causal evidence from China pp. 391-400

Xiaoyi Lyu, Chenghao Liu and Langlei Ji

Environmental pollution liability insurance and commercial credit financing pp. 401-405

Lingyue Han, Dong Ma, Chengfang Deng and Meihua Zhong

Negative social effects of firms’ digital transformation – a perspective based on labour income shares pp. 406-410

Xiaoyun Lin, Zhitao Wang and Yinuo Xu

The transmission of shocks to food and energy commodity prices to food inflation in the euro area* pp. 411-416

Fructuoso Borrallo, Lucía Cuadro-Sáez, Águeda Gras-Miralles and Javier Pérez

Homeownership and portfolio choice in later life pp. 417-421

Claudius Garten and Michal Myck

The impact of government policy on enterprise digital transformation: evidence from China’s national civilized city award pp. 422-426

Huijie Cui, Wen Wen, Yingqi Tang and Xiaoqing Feng

The effects of the job stabilization fund on employment pp. 427-431

Hyeonki Hong and Seongman Moon

Research on the impact of industrial intelligence on FDI: empirical evidence from China pp. 432-437

Zhimin He, Huaichao Chen and Jingwei Hu

Do individual investors gamble to recoup losses? pp. 438-443

Oscar Stålnacke

Heterogeneity in bubble experience across firms: an examination of the tech bubble pp. 444-452

Phuong Lan Le and Tan Do

The impact of economic policy uncertainty on household economic vulnerability: evidence from China’s provincial-level economic policy uncertainty index pp. 453-458

Zhongyu Sun and Jun Li

CEO overseas experience and researchers’ wages pp. 459-464

Ying Wu and Yuanyue Deng

Corporate litigation and stock price crash risk: evidence from China pp. 465-472

Tingwei Li and Ruwei Zhao

Volume 33, issue 2, 2026

Extracting gold risk premium via dimension reduction tools: implication on the gold–inflation relationship pp. 155-164

Tai-Yong Roh, Byung Yoon Lee and Yahua Xu

Does strict financial regulation promote Chinese firm innovation: evidence from the New Asset Management regulation pp. 165-170

Xiaohui Xu, Hongyu Wu and Jun Yang

An aggregation-consistent implementation of the Hamilton filter pp. 171-176

Marco Cozzi

Rural aging, land markets, and farm operations in China pp. 177-184

Linlin Wang, Deming Luo and Yusheng Zhang

Service sectors and trade through a digital medium: a modified gravity approach pp. 185-188

Srinka Bose

Low-carbon policies and green transformation: evidence from high-carbon emitting firms in China pp. 189-194

Xianfang Su, Aoxue Zheng, Jing Huang, Binye Wu and Yujuan Yang

Impact of institutions of higher learning on population and employment: a panel study for Germany pp. 195-199

Joachim Zietz and Lukas Götzelmann

US–China trade war and key digital technology innovation of Chinese enterprises pp. 200-208

Panpan Zheng, Zhen Li and Ruiqi Ma

Trust and e-commerce consumption: evidence from China pp. 209-216

Anran Du, Zengdong Cao, Zaizhou Hu and Qin Tu

Measures the potential for household consumption: a comparison based on inconsistencies between income and consumption classes pp. 217-222

Ziqing Du and Guangming Lv

Time-frequency relationship between heterogeneous uncertainties and stock market extreme risk: new evidence from China pp. 223-230

Xinya Wang and Yi Xue

Multiple blockholders and governance through voice: evidence from blockholder board representation pp. 231-236

Ai-Yee Ooi and Kian-Ping Lim

Political ideology and big pharma in the allocation of health aid pp. 237-240

Adebukola Adeleke and Kevin Sylwester

The effect of Russia-Ukraine war on stock market linkages beyond its borders: evidence from Latin America pp. 241-252

Geesun Lee, Nareth Silva and Jinho Jeong

Testing and mechanism identification of liquidity trap in China pp. 253-259

Kaifeng Duan, Chuanzhen Zheng and Yuan Shan

Corporate income tax reform and intra-industry resource reallocation pp. 260-265

Jin Chen, Meimei Li, Churen Sun and Yao Xiong

Do the U.S. and Europe financial sanctions help promote RMB internationalization? pp. 266-271

Xiangying Zhang and Ge Wang

Measuring the propagation effect of production networks: is China more susceptible to shocks? pp. 272-277

Hongtao Wang and Shupei Huang

State aid, R&D, and the digital content of trade pp. 278-286

Chiara Castelli, Dario Guarascio, Stefan Jestl and Robert Stehrer

Accounting for change in income inequality in rural India, 1993–2011: a regression-based decomposition pp. 287-292

Mehtabul Azam

Digital infrastructure and urban entrepreneurship level pp. 293-300

Chao Xiong, Yunyan Liang and Baoxiu Zhang

ESG rating divergence, information disclosure, and stock price volatility: evidence from Chinese listed companies pp. 301-306

Chengming Li and Shuhao Lai

Talented managers, bank dividend policy and policy uncertainty pp. 307-311

Dung V. Tran

Does population ageing affect financial market stability? Evidence from firm-level stock price crash risk pp. 312-317

Yichi Jiang and Xuanyue Zhang

Volume 33, issue 1, 2026

E-commerce development and women’s family empowerment: evidence from China pp. 1-5

Xinya Wang, Sichen Liu and Ruoyu Liu

Digital divide or dividend? A meta-analysis of digital finance and inclusive entrepreneurship pp. 6-10

Xiaoke Shi and Xueru Yang

Penalty shootouts and bitcoin trading pp. 11-16

Andrei Shynkevich

Comparing sin and ethical stocks: a spillover dynamics perspective pp. 17-23

Guo Wu and Yingdong Xia

Comparative analysis of the economic effects of special economic zones in China and Korea: evidence from a PSM difference-in-difference method pp. 24-29

Min Jiang, Hongbo Liu and Euijune Kim

From pixels to prosperity: does the digital economy reinforce or mitigate urban economic convergence in China? pp. 30-36

Caili Yang, Haoyu Lian and Yihua Yu

Party identity and social-distancing behaviours in Brazil pp. 37-41

Ridwan Karim

Study on the influence of green finance development on industrial energy consumption pp. 42-47

Minglang Zhang, Minghao Zhang and Minna Chen

Can the expansion of market size increase firm markup? Evidence from China pp. 48-53

Gang An and Jia Wang

Digital finance and corporate financialization: from the perspective of bank competition and economic policy uncertainty pp. 54-58

Da Yang, Hongyang Ma, Ken C Ho and Dandan Wang

Police-involved killings and economic sentiment of black households pp. 59-63

Cody Couture and Ann Owen

Financialization of the firms and between-firm inequality: evidence from China pp. 64-70

Xu Si and Yulin Liu

Effects of short-time work schemes on firm survival during the covid-19 crisis: insights from new Spanish data pp. 71-75

Javier Garcia-Clemente and Emilio Congregado

Pay dispersion and ESG performance pp. 76-85

Gang Li and Min Zhong

Mental health professional training for teachers and student outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence from Chinese middle schools pp. 86-92

Boou Chen, Yu Shen and Chunkai Zhao

Is corporate community involvement associated with poverty and income inequality? International evidence pp. 93-99

Dana Moldakulova and Hohyun Kim

Developing digital dividends: digital-economy-oriented industrial policy, digital technology innovation, and firms’ productivity pp. 100-107

Hongming Gao, Xiaolong Xue and Hui Zhu

Has fintech affected the credit loan scale of urban commercial banks in China? pp. 108-114

Xiao Wang and Jiantao Chen

Domestic market integration and multi-product firms’ export behaviours: evidence from China pp. 115-122

Xiaohui Xu, Ruizhen Dong, Pin Lv and Jun Yang

Integrating NLP tools in corporate governance: a study of disclosure effectiveness pp. 123-129

Chaehyun Pyun

Do environmental provisions in regional trade agreements help to increase environmental innovation? pp. 130-134

Renyu Li, Jing Luo and Tenglong Zhong

A fractal theory of investor demand for cryptocurrencies pp. 135-141

Aiman Hairudin and Azhar Mohamad

The innovation incentive effect of green investors: evidence from fund holdings pp. 142-149

Maolin Li, Yan Li, Zhen Li and Di Wang

A simplified approach to benchmark, relative return, and asset pricing pp. 150-153

G. Glenn Baigent