Applied Economics

1997 - 2026

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Volume 58, issue 11, 2026

Can monetary and fiscal policy account for South Africa’s stagnation? pp. 2027-2042

Tumisang Loate and Nicola Viegi

The cost of informality in Brazilian wages – an updated discussion pp. 2043-2057

Magno Gomes, Solange Souza, Paulo Mourao and Otávio Silva

Cross-state disparities in pharmaceutical expenditure in the U.S pp. 2058-2075

Eduardo Daniel López-Vila, Antonio Montañés and María Blanca Simón-Fernández

Opening public data and entrepreneurial activity: evidence from China pp. 2076-2091

Lijuan Lv, Miao Miao, Lixiong Guo and Yan Chen

Enhancing industrial performance in Africa: the role of global value chains participation pp. 2092-2108

Abdoul Karim Théophile Ouedraogo and Moukaila Mouzamilou Takpara

Oil and petrol prices, inflation perceptions, and inflation expectations: evidence from New Zealand pp. 2109-2120

Puneet Vatsa

The application of industrial robots, global value chain integration and income distribution pp. 2121-2135

Liangxiong Huang, Kaiqing Wang and Ziyue Lin

Utility-generating government spending and (in)determinacy in a two-sector model pp. 2136-2154

Dou Jiang

Peg instability of USDT: a realized GARCH CoVaR approach pp. 2155-2169

Qihao Chen and Zhuo Huang

Sports stars, network effects and services trade: evidence from the National Basketball Association pp. 2170-2187

Qifei Chen and Zhonggang Yue

Dynamic interlinkages between oil price shocks and stock markets: a quantile-on-quantile connectedness analysis in emerging economies pp. 2188-2204

Muharrem Afşar, Onur Polat, Aslı Afşar and Güntülü Özlem Kahraman

Forecasting volatility spillovers across Chinese financial industries: an out-of-sample framework using a novel matrix autoregressive model pp. 2205-2225

Chengcheng Liu and Tong Fang

Volume 58, issue 10, 2026

A cost-benefit analysis of statins as a dementia intervention pp. 1845-1856

Robert J. Brent

Import competition and domestic vertical integration: theory and evidence from Chinese firms pp. 1857-1874

Xin Du and Xiaoxia Shi

Private wealth transfers and homeownership: evidence from Luxembourg pp. 1875-1886

Thomas Mathä, Giuseppe Pulina and Michael Ziegelmeyer

Rockets and feathers in CEO compensation: a test of asymmetric pay related to stock price pp. 1887-1897

Randall C. Campbell and Gregory L. Nagel

Economic functions and soft budget constraint of SOEs: evidence from China pp. 1898-1911

Wenzhi Wu, Yuanyuan An and Huiqiang Wang

Intergenerational occupational mobility in China: an urban-rural comparison pp. 1912-1929

Xiao Huang, Jianhao Zhao and Jie Tian

Can regional innovation policy promote synergy for urban pollution and carbon reduction? Evidence from a quasi-natural policy experiment pp. 1930-1949

Xiaojun Yang, Hongchang Xue, Yichun Song and Yuke Zhu

Accounting inspections and stock price crash risk: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China pp. 1950-1969

Shaojie Lai, Le Yu and Qing Sophie Wang

Regulatory spillovers of inquiry letters on analyst earnings forecasts: evidence from director networks in China pp. 1970-1984

Jingwen Dai, Rong Xu and Xingmei Xu

Labour market dynamics of minimum wage workers pp. 1985-1997

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness and Elish Kelly

Impact of social mindset of private entrepreneurs on enterprise resilience in environmental dynamism pp. 1998-2012

Xiuna Bai

Study on the impact of the establishment of national social credit system construction demonstration zones on financing preferences: estimation based on an asymptotic double-difference scores model pp. 2013-2026

Haisheng Chen

Volume 58, issue 9, 2026

How uncertain are oil prices? bayesian regularized distribution neural network for forecasting oil prices pp. 1639-1655

He Jiang, Yawei Dong, Shaolong Sun and Shouyang Wang

What has influenced the growth and structural transformation of China’s cultural industry? — Based on the input-output bias analysis pp. 1656-1669

Wenyan Feng, Yuhang Li and Sen Chen

Global value chain participation and economic growth in Africa pp. 1670-1689

Ibrahim Nana and Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong

Why industrial catching-upper usually fails? A tradeoff model among independent or cooperative R&D, technology licencing and acquisition pp. 1690-1712

Zheliang Shen and Jun Xue

Promotion or inhibition: the impact of corporate financialization on the labour income share in China pp. 1713-1731

Yan Chen and Ruiqi Sun

An alternative approach for analysing the gender wage gap in managerial positions: a stochastic latent class model pp. 1732-1745

Maria J. Perez-Villadoniga, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and David Roibas

Asymmetric tail risk spillovers between carbon emission allowance and energy markets: evidence from China pp. 1746-1763

Ting He

Digital transformation of SMEs, action-oriented information disclosure, and enterprise value enhancement pp. 1764-1777

Yixin Mao

Aging gracefully: steering the banking sector through demographic shifts pp. 1778-1795

Patrick Imam and Christian Schmieder

Asymmetric interdependence between economic policy uncertainty and New Zealand carbon price pp. 1796-1811

Miaomiao Tao, Stephen Poletti, David Roubaud and Emilson Silva

The role of artificial intelligence in reducing carbon emissions: evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 1812-1829

Nanxu Chen, Jiajing Huang, Yuling Hu and Yi Li

Engaging parents with preschools: evidence from a field experiment pp. 1830-1843

Rohen Shah, Ariel Kalil and Susan Mayer

Volume 58, issue 8, 2026

Social network of digital inclusive finance and urban-rural income gap pp. 1431-1448

Hejie Zhang, Hongzhong Fan and Ziang Cheng

Score-driven credit risk clustering in Guatemala: an extension for unbalanced panels pp. 1449-1467

Szabolcs Blazsek, Diego Goirigolzarri and Ari S. Kamau

Business Chinese talent demand in Africa: the effect of China-Africa goods trade structure pp. 1468-1483

Donald Lien, Chengang Zeng and Heting Wu

How does energy supply affect regional entrepreneurship? Evidence from the west-to-east natural gas transmission project in china pp. 1484-1503

Lei Qiu, Hongyan Wang, Wenjing Kuai, Hui Wang and Weifen Lin

Corporate gender diversity and carbon reduction: the moderating effect of national culture pp. 1504-1527

Xuhui Peng, Jingduan Li, Yi Liu, Qingliang Tang and Yi-Chen Lan

Capital misallocation in mergers and acquisitions pp. 1528-1542

Wenting Guo and Jiwei Chen

Improving carbon emission performance through mandatory targets: evidence from China pp. 1543-1562

Zhen Li, Yanyan Shen and Yicheng Li

The moderating effect of monetary policy and ESG practices on the relationship between leverage and firm value in ASEAN-5 emerging countries pp. 1563-1578

Dinh Long Tran and Quang Khai Nguyen

Design of a carbon footprint-based carbon subsidy impact mechanism for collaborative carbon reduction in new energy vehicle supply chains pp. 1579-1594

Jingyu Liu, Jingrong Dong, Yuke Chen and Bo Huang

Oil price shocks and the macroeconomy: new evidence from Eastern European countries pp. 1595-1608

Kamal P. Upadhyaya, Franklin G. Mixon and Hem C. Basnet

Industrial robots and fintech: evidence from China pp. 1609-1622

Bowen Li, Xuecheng Huang and Hanhui Liu

Shining stars, unpredictable outcomes: the impact of outcome uncertainty and star power on the online attention of the Chinese Football Association Super League pp. 1623-1638

Xiao Wang

Volume 58, issue 7, 2026

Technical independent director–CEO friendliness and enterprise dual innovation: evidence from China pp. 1227-1241

Dongshan Ma, Jian Ding, Mingyu Liu and Cuifang Wang

Strategic investors and capital allocation efficiency: evidence from China’s mixed ownership reform pp. 1242-1260

Yu Lu, Rui Liu, Zipeng Chen, Xiya Gao and Boxuan Deng

Political connectedness and stock price informativeness: the moderating role of legal institutions pp. 1261-1277

Hang Thu Nguyen, Loan Thi Thanh Nguyen, Hao Thi Nhu Nguyen, Anh Thi Mai Nguyen and Hiep Manh Nguyen

The impact of import tariff reductions on Chinese firms’ import prices: an empirical analysis considering the adjustment effect of the RMB exchange rate pp. 1278-1293

Wenqian Zhang and Hao Wei

The role of cash flow volatility in capital structure dynamics pp. 1294-1306

Shengke Dong and Yuexiang Jiang

Are cryptocurrencies good investment options during economic downturns? A perspective from individual financial satisfaction pp. 1307-1324

Zefeng Bai, Miaoqing Jia and Shuxin Zheng

The impact of greening the tax system on the energy consumption structure: de-capacity or pollution migration? pp. 1325-1343

Ya Su, Diyun Peng, Yuxuan Deng and Yi Feng

Modelling the impact of green operations on SMEs’ performance: the role of green transaction and artificial intelligence pp. 1344-1360

Codruța Cornelia Dura, Elias Appiah-Kubi, Dorina Niță, Imola Drigă, Ana Preda and Alexandru Cristian Dobre

Extreme weather and the financial sustainability of rural commercial banks: evidence from China pp. 1361-1376

Kai Wan, Li Cao and Qianlong Xu

The impact of China’s Central Environmental Protection Inspection on carbon emissions of tourism industry pp. 1377-1391

Yurong Zhu, Ziwei Shang, Lei Cong, David Dean and Genjin Sun

Household indebtedness and multidimensional poverty: evidence from China pp. 1392-1414

Jiaheng Li, Olukorede Abiona and Kompal Sinha

A reassessment of human capital convergence and its determinants: evidence from a cross-country analysis pp. 1415-1430

Vaseem Akram, Bibhudutta Panda, Badri Narayan Rath and Chandan Kumar Jha

Volume 58, issue 6, 2026

Macroeconomic variables and time-varying volatility persistence of carbon market pp. 1021-1040

Tianyu Liu, Huawei Niu and Xuebao Yin

The power of the helmsman: the influence of leading companies in digital technology innovation pp. 1041-1056

Baizhen Zhang and Biyu Peng

Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of economic returns to higher education expansion policy in China pp. 1057-1076

Jie Chen, Yunpeng Zhu and Yue Wang

Drought-induced macroeconomic effects on China: a time-frequency domain analysis pp. 1077-1095

Jiana Chen

The evolution of ticket pricing strategies in the North American concert industry: evidence from two decades of data pp. 1096-1112

Dylan Thompson

For older and poorer: the implications of self-employment among individuals over 50 pp. 1113-1131

Pankaj C. Patel

A case against average inflation targeting pp. 1132-1144

Yusuf Ömür Yılmaz

Digital transformation: how digital infrastructure impacts urban livability in China pp. 1145-1161

Tianhao Zhao and Longlong Duan

E-participation as a driver of economic growth: a cross-country study pp. 1162-1176

Jithesh Arayankalam and Ashapurna Baruah

The impact of the governmental environmental policy on the tfp of heavily polluting companies: the evidence from Chinese listed companies pp. 1177-1193

Yuanyu Cao

Exogenous, endogenous, and observable switching models of industrial production in the United Kingdom pp. 1194-1208

Astrid Loretta Ayala and Szabolcs Blazsek

Can government procurement improve capacity utilization in enterprises? Evidence from China pp. 1209-1226

Xiaoping Li, Muci Yan, Xiaohang Ren and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

Volume 58, issue 5, 2026

CEO compensation for luck and skill and corporate governance in U.S. property-liability insurance firms pp. 833-845

Sangyong Han, Gyu Dong Kim and Jeungbo Shim

The limits to federal firearms taxation pp. 846-858

Joseph G. Eisenhauer

The economic effects of the comply-or-explain dividend payout policy: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment pp. 859-873

Yu-Yuan Shih and Chih-Chuan Yeh

Judicial independence and regional digital innovation in China pp. 874-888

Dongfa Feng, Yunqing Tao, Cai Wang and Rui Zhao

Set-aside auctions and small businesses’ participation in public procurement: an empirical analysis pp. 889-903

Gegam Shagbazian, Paola Valbonesi, Andrey Tkachenko and Elena Shadrina

Estimates of government spending multipliers in Australian data pp. 904-920

Zac Reynolds and Lance A. Fisher

Leveling the playing field: the effects of multi-school zoning policies on housing prices pp. 921-941

Tiantian Dai, Shenyi Jiang and Yang Ming

Bilateral risk in savings and loan holding companies: an econophysics framework for analyzing network resilience pp. 942-958

Haibo Wang

Would workers value a few more hours of work? Technological progress and time-related underemployment among Chinese workers pp. 959-972

Kangsi Zhang, Xuenan Qiu and Chen Zhu

From parent to child? The long-lasting effects of social support pp. 973-987

Ambra Poggi and Guyonne Kalb

Local government and environmental policy: empirical evidence on the link between spending and regulation1 pp. 988-1004

Luiz de Mello and Joao Jalles

Exploring the complementarity between traditional econometric methods and machine learning – an application to adoption and disadoption of conservation practices pp. 1005-1020

Zhushan Du, Hongli Feng and J. Arbuckle

Volume 58, issue 4, 2026

Do positional concerns trigger entrepreneurial decisions? – Evidence from survey experiments pp. 613-626

Alpaslan Akay and Levent Yilmaz

Dynamic clustering analysis of US banks amidst the Fed’s rate hikes pp. 627-644

Xinyao Zhao and Yuhong Xu

Does the green financial policy promote growth quality? Evidence from China pp. 645-660

Wei Liu, Pujuan Li and Xiaoqi Huang

Does digital innovation improve carbon productivity? A new perspective based on industrial upgrading pp. 661-679

Zhaohui Liu, Li Li, Jian Hou and Bingjun Li

How do US sectoral markets connect in calm and crisis? A quantile-based network analysis pp. 680-703

Mobeen Ur Rehman, Rami Zeitun, Neeraj Nautiyal, Xuan Vinh Vo and Sang Hoon Kang

Delving into the nexus: financial stress and asymmetric monetary policy response pp. 704-720

Anand Babu and Aswathi R. Nair

The role of board gender diversity in financial performance: role of sustainability, climate risk and internal control systems pp. 721-736

Hassan Aziz and Kemal Cek

Public digitalization and enterprise innovation in China’s high-tech listed companies pp. 737-755

Wanquan Qiu, Yanlin Yang, Xiang Deng and Chuang Li

Forecasting realized volatility of the oil future prices via machine learning pp. 756-779

Myung Jun Kim, Byung-June Kim, Taeyoon Kim and Bong-Gyu Jang

The impact of diverging financing structures of real estate firms on debt risk under credit constraints pp. 780-793

Mengkai Chen, Debao Ruan and Liang Fang

Distracted financial analysts and the value of corporate cash holdings pp. 794-814

Xiaolin Xue, Yilan Liang and Bin Li

Adverse effects of enhanced board independence in the context of concentrated ownership among Indian firms pp. 815-831

Aniket Bhanu and Abhilash Nair

Volume 58, issue 3, 2026

Can large-scale farms lead smallholder agricultural digitalization? Evidence from intelligent machinery use in China pp. 397-412

Zongyao Yang, Shuyu Wu, Yueqing Ji and Ling Tan

Strategic wealth management for Chinese households: navigating liquid and illiquid assets for overseas education planning pp. 413-429

Jialong Li, Congrong Ouyang and Ji Shen

Formal financial inclusion and digital mobile money adoption in sub-Saharan Africa: do bank concentration and competition matter? pp. 430-450

Rocio Marco and Hector Perez-Saiz

Can loan characteristics cushion the impact of an exogenous shock on subsistence entrepreneurs? Evidence from India pp. 451-467

Ashish Desai, Rudra Sensarma and Ashok Thomas

Putting the K in rank: how kindergarten classrooms impact short- and long-run outcomes pp. 468-482

Derek Rury

You’ll never walk alone: investigating the spillover effects in countries’ transition towards a low-carbon future pp. 483-500

Yifan Shen, Yuxuan Wang, Yanan Chen and Xunpeng Shi

Does the new-type urbanization policy promote green technological innovation? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China pp. 501-516

Yuxin Liu and Xianghong Zhou

How does investor sentiment impact systemic risk contagion across industries? Evidence from the Chinese stock market pp. 517-539

Shaofang Li, Siying Zhang, Jiaxin He and Tingting Ren

Systemic risk under different clearing methods for multiple derivatives pp. 540-557

Miao Tang and Hong Fan

How do firms navigate the tightrope of R&D investments, cash flow sensitivity, and financial constraints? Evidence from China and India pp. 558-572

Madheshiya Varsha and Krishna Prasanna

Economic uncertainty, monetary policy, and global commodity price dynamics: the role of “China factors” pp. 573-594

Peng Chen, Jiamei Wu and Biao Nie

Impacts of liquidity constraints, wealth and debt on happiness pp. 595-611

Fei Guo, Ting Li, Isabel Kit-Ming Yan and Eric Evans Osei Opoku

Volume 58, issue 2, 2026

Channel and pricing strategies in a risk-averse dual-channel supply chain: portfolio trade credit financing and platform investment pp. 187-204

Zhiyuan Zhen and Yue Yu

The effects of adopting large farms’ agricultural mechanization services on agricultural productivity pp. 205-218

Shihai Zhao, Jingxia Wu and Tongwei Qiu

Assessing the impact of financial development, eco-innovations on sustainable development: insights from industrial economies of E7 pp. 219-242

Hui Zhang, Yuyang Sun, Xin Liu and Yang Liu

Natural disasters and entrepreneurship in rural China pp. 243-261

Rui Zhang, Chuncao Wang, Shaoyong Wu, Dawei Feng and Chenglei Zhang

The impact of pilot free trade zones on producer services agglomeration pp. 262-276

Jizeng Peng, Jiaojiao Ling and Defang Yuan

Does multiple job holding raise labour use efficiency of the farm operators? Evidence from rural India pp. 277-292

Anviksha Drall and Sabuj Kumar Mandal

New score-driven scale and shape interactions: an application to international stock indices pp. 293-313

Szabolcs Blazsek and Morgan Hall

Green finance and “greenization” of enterprise’s technology: based on evolutionary game theory and empirical test in China pp. 314-331

Shaozhou Qi, Mengyu Jia, Xiaoxiao Zhou and Teng Zhang

Reducing product waste within the retail industry: a post-COVID-19 era study on enhancing demand prediction with hybrid prediction models pp. 332-347

Maider Elorza, Sara Segura and Eduardo Castellano

Are carbon trading markets efficient? A longitudinal investigation pp. 348-362

Ajith Venugopal, Natalia Diniz-Maganini and Abdul A. Rasheed

How does digital finance affect financing constraints of SMEs? Evidence from China pp. 363-381

Rui Sun, Qingya Shang, Aoxue Zu and Shunyu Gan

The dynamic impact of trade openness on industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 382-395

Charles Alain Bita, Cédric Feyom and Philémon Votsoma

Volume 58, issue 1, 2026

Airbnb pricing in Sydney: predictive modelling and explainable machine learning pp. 1-18

George Milunovich and Dom Nasrabadi

Convergence of gender unemployment gaps in Africa: new evidence from Fourier ADF and KPSS unit root tests with break pp. 19-37

Fumitaka Furuoka, Luis Gil-Alana, OlaOluwa S. Yaya and Xuan Vinh Vo

The long-run population effects of floods in Spanish municipalities, 1877–2011 pp. 38-54

Guillermo Peña and Marcos Sanso-Navarro

To what extent does it deviate from substantive green innovation: the effect of capital market opening on enterprises’ pseudo-green innovation pp. 55-68

Jingxi Zhao and Xuewei Sun

Capital liquidity and abnormal returns in the Taiwan stock market: The impact of the US-China trade conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 69-82

W.D. Chen

Does the SOEs deepening reform mitigate firms’ short-term debt for long-term use? Evidence from China pp. 83-96

Bo Cheng, Xingyu Teng, Yunfei Cai and Shiyu Lu

Environmental regulation, air pollution and household well-being: evidence from China’s key region policy pp. 97-115

Jintao Fu

Does societal trust matter for corporate tax behaviors pp. 116-129

Hao Chen, Yijun Meng, Xueping Ning and Yuntian Xia

Municipality-level estimates of agricultural land prices in Germany: applying the small area estimation method pp. 130-140

Hao Luo, Luise Meissner and Oliver Musshoff

Does energy poverty affect subjective well-being? Evidence from a cross-country analysis pp. 141-156

Yiwen Li, Wenwen Zhang, Bin Zhao, Basil Sharp and Jianyun Nie

Are Special Economic Zone policies (SEZ) effective? An empirical analysis on the transport and logistics’ sector pp. 157-171

Angela Stefania Bergantino, Giulio Fusco and Mario Intini

Evaluating the internal control strategy in the AI industry: using the COSO framework pp. 172-185

Li-Hua Huang