Applied Economics

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Volume 58, issue 21, 2026

Heterogeneous effects of e-government on urban and rural public services: the perspective of the digital divide pp. 3989-4004

Yuping Yang

Systemic risk of Chinese non-financial corporations based on structural break analysis and network test pp. 4005-4022

Zongyuan Zhu and Qingtian Luo

Affiliated banker directors and firm mergers and acquisitions pp. 4023-4036

Jianrong Wang, Hui Li, Vincent Jia and Haizhi Wang

Can green credit promote green innovation quality of heavily polluting industries? pp. 4037-4052

Wei Yang and Jiahui Lin

How does digital financial inclusion affect urban innovation level? Evidence from prefecture-level cities in China pp. 4053-4069

Chaonan Wang and Feng Li

The impact of FinTech on global regional financial development spatial econometric analysis based on Tobit-SDM model pp. 4070-4084

Tao Xue and Xi Xi

The impact of economic freedom on COVID-19 pandemic control: the moderating role of good governance pp. 4085-4104

Juan Cándido Gómez Gallego, María Gómez Gallego and María Del Rocío Moreno-Enguix

Can state-owned capital investment improve the financial performance of Chinese private enterprises? pp. 4105-4118

Chao Chen, Jingjing Qian, Xuanzhi Zhu, Xionghui Leng, Chenjie Hao and Bao Xu

The role of regional ownership structure in firm formation in China: effects of related versus unrelated variety pp. 4119-4133

Junguo Shi, Ying Chen, Bert M. Sadowski and Shanshan Dou

Will fintech affect the expansion of shadow banking? pp. 4134-4150

Yuliang Zhao and Mingxue Hao

Trade openness and individual happiness: who benefits the most? pp. 4151-4168

Jing Liu, Jingxian Li, Ruina Bai and Xiao Yu

Energy poverty and children’s subjective well-being: evidence from young lives data pp. 4169-4184

Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung and Hai Le

Volume 58, issue 20, 2026

Macro-level insights into the digital economy: topic identification and trend analysis pp. 3789-3806

Xiaorong He and Hongyu Zhao

The impact of long-term care insurance on family fertility behaviour: evidence from China pp. 3807-3821

Yuqing Han, Xuhui Tao, Siyuan Wang and Yi Zhang

The asymmetric Granger causality between banking-sector and stock-market development and economic growth in quantiles considering Fourier pp. 3822-3838

Hao Fang, Chieh-Hsuan Wang, Joseph C. P. Shieh and Chien-Ping Chung

Board secretary succession and environmental information disclosure quality: evidence from heavily polluting firms in China pp. 3839-3856

Sheng Yao, Gongyi Chen and Ye Zhu

Internet usage and commercial pension insurance participation: exploring the impact of traditional culture pp. 3857-3869

Zongyue He, Wei Kong, Xiqian Wang and Donghao Zhang

Parental health shocks, and upward mobility of children’s income in China pp. 3870-3884

Xiang Li, Kent Matthews and Shouwei Qi

Multiscale spatiotemporal evolution analysis of cryptocurrency returns pp. 3885-3906

Fan Zhou and Wenjing Guo

Public debt and economic growth in G7 countries: do financial and political institutions matter? pp. 3907-3921

Oguzhan Bozatli and Seref Can Serin

Response of sectoral CO2 emissions to climate and economic policy uncertainties: a multi-frequency quantile analysis pp. 3922-3941

Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo

Smallholder farmers and aggregation success: a stakeholders’ perspective pp. 3942-3961

Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty and Shreyansh Nema

The impact of stock option incentive on earnings volatility under economic policy uncertainty pp. 3962-3973

Na-Youn Kim and Juhan Lee

Co-location of carbon capture projects with pollution-intensive manufacturing: evidence from US zip codes pp. 3974-3988

Mahelet G. Fikru, Ting Shen and Melaku Abegaz

Volume 58, issue 19, 2026

The autoencoder asset pricing model in the Chinese stock market pp. 3603-3620

Qi Shu, Heng Xiong and Gongqiu Zhang

The impact of digital economy on urban innovation: evidence from Chinese cities pp. 3621-3636

Fuzhong Chen and Xinyue Yuan

Has the upgrading of provincial development zones promoted innovation? Evidence from county-level data in China’s optimized development areas pp. 3637-3656

Mengmeng Yang, Yabin Zhang, Zhenguo Wang, Yuhang Mao and Xiao Liu

Green-process vs. green-product innovation: the diverse impact of the carbon emission trading system pp. 3657-3672

Ting Liu and Lihong Wang

Effect of e-cigarette regulations on smoking and vaping behaviour: evidence from Washington pp. 3673-3687

Grace Arnold and Riju Joshi

Policy design of land conservation in rural China: a choice experiment approach pp. 3688-3709

Jie Sun and Li Zhou

Unveiling sustainable supply chain management – corporate sustainability performance: a mediation perspective pp. 3710-3725

Ajith Venugopal, Balaji Janamanchi, Ananda Mukherji and Saha Iqbal Hossain

The impact of minimum wage on the employment of rural migrant workers in China pp. 3726-3739

Ya’nan Li, Mengge Ma and Shanshan Wu

Social connectedness and inflow foreign direct investment: evidence from an emerging market pp. 3740-3759

Truong Giang Nguyen, Thu Ha Nguyen and Thi Thu Huong Nguyen

Spatial effect in corporate intelligent manufacturing: empirical evidence from Chinese listed companies pp. 3760-3776

Xiaozhen Pan and Siqi Lin

The impact mechanism of regional competition policy intensity on market competition efficiency: evidence from Chinese IT industry pp. 3777-3788

Jiwen Chai, Lihao Wang, Jiawei Guo and Ailing Wu

Volume 58, issue 18, 2026

The effect of teacher professional title reform on students’ mental health observed in adulthood pp. 3409-3423

Pengfei Chu, Guanxia Xie and Guansheng Wu

Gender disparities in earnings mobility: the role of employment protection legislation during reproductive years in Europe pp. 3424-3439

Elena Bárcena-Martín, Samuel Medina-Claros and Salvador Pérez-Moreno

How do customers react to suppliers’ cybersecurity risk? Evidence from cash holdings pp. 3440-3456

Zhuang Zhou, Qi Zhang, Weilun Tian and Jiarui Wang

How digital economy mitigates urban carbon emissions: the green facilitative power of industrial coagglomeration pp. 3457-3475

Jie Huang, Beibei Zheng and Minzhe Du

Sector or factor? Unveiling the winning investment strategy in China pp. 3476-3489

Qing Wang

The impact of social media and internet forums posts on the stock market dynamics: a sentiment analysis using a lexical approach in Borsa İstanbul pp. 3490-3502

Deniz Sevinç and Metin Coşkun

Sustainable development challenges in BRICS: a dynamic analysis of CO2 emissions and ecological footprint pp. 3503-3518

Shun Zhang and Xuyi Liu

Network infrastructure, digital technology innovation and enterprise performance: evidence from Chinese listed companies pp. 3519-3533

Xiaoyu Shao, Xiaoyu Ma and Fei Fan

Impact of internet adoption on poverty vulnerability of rural households: panel evidence from China pp. 3534-3550

Songqing Jin, Jiayang Lyu and Yushan Wang

The influence of job characteristics on subjective social status: evidence from panel data pp. 3551-3568

Michael T. French and Karoline Mortensen

Digital transformation and ESG performance: evidence from China’s carbon-intensive firms pp. 3569-3582

Jingjing Qian, Huijing Lin and Chao Chen

Risk transmission and returns dependence between oil and socially responsible funds? pp. 3583-3602

Mobeen Ur Rehman, Neeraj Nautiyal, Rami Zeitun, Xuan Vinh Vo and Noha Alessa

Volume 58, issue 17, 2026

Evaluating R&D payroll tax subsidies: impacts on high-skill employment pp. 3211-3226

Ulrika Stavlöt and Roger Svensson

Responsible for inequality: how does climate policy uncertainty increase income inequality? pp. 3227-3246

Keyang Zhan and Zhengning Pu

The economic impact of Napa valley on other California grape districts pp. 3247-3263

Chong-Uk Kim and Gieyoung Lim

High-speed rail expansion and university innovation output: evidence from China pp. 3264-3277

Ma ZhiQiang and Zhang Jianhong

Driving climate risk awareness: The impact of the Big Three pp. 3278-3290

Xiaochuan Song and Lukai Yang

Subconscious risk aversion and the long-term effect of a pandemic on asset holding: micro evidence from China pp. 3291-3304

Yanhong Li, Xuefeng Pan and Weixing Wu

Analysis of geopolitical risk impacts on crude oil volatility with an explainable machine learning approach: China versus the USA pp. 3305-3322

Li Liu, Lu Li, Degao Li and Linjun Tang

Coordination of risk aversion in green supply chains with online-offline competition pp. 3323-3341

Zhen Chen, Kaveh Khalilpour, Liangshan Shao, Rui Zhao and Zhen Wang

The role of China’s national logistics hubs in promoting green logistics efficiency: spillover effects and endogenous heterogeneity pp. 3342-3357

Zheng Li and Jiaying An

Institutional stock-bond portfolios rebalancing and financial stability: Norway as a case study pp. 3358-3373

Jean-Baptiste Hasse, Christelle Lecourt and Souhila Siagh

ESG rating divergence and corporate disclosure strategies: evidence from performance forecasts pp. 3374-3391

Jia Long, Qiankun Wang and Tingwen Liu

How does artificial intelligence affect human capital structure? Evidence from Chinese listed enterprises pp. 3392-3407

Fei Fan, Yanlu Chen and Bo Yang

Volume 58, issue 16, 2026

Can digital technology innovation enhance the corporate profitability? pp. 3001-3015

Debin Ma, Yanyun Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang and Ziyi Wang

Wind power, industrial agglomeration, and employment structure in China pp. 3016-3034

Jianglong Li and Jin Zhou

Measuring consensus in risk narratives of financial systems pp. 3035-3050

Rui Li, Jianping Li, Yi Hu and Xiaoqian Zhu

How can farms constrained by resource endowment improve misallocation? Evidence from China pp. 3051-3066

Sumin Tao, Wei Chen, Fangfang Su and Ruiyao Ying

The interplay of political connections and economic stimulus: productivity consequences from China’s economic stimulus pp. 3067-3084

Benlai Wang, Runsheng Wang and Bohong Zhu

Investigating the impacts of environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) dimensions on commodity financialization using a Fourier Volatility Transmission Analysis pp. 3085-3102

Alper Gormus and Saban Nazlioglu

How does artificial intelligence change carbon emission intensity? A firm lifecycle perspective pp. 3103-3120

Qiang Wu and Peng Zhou

Two-stage evolutionary dynamics of fiscal subsidy reforms: tripartite game analysis in China’s biomass energy transition pp. 3121-3136

Yunsheng Zhang, Shuting Wang and Ruomeng Zhou

Navigating corporate governance and involuntary delisting in frontier markets: a nuanced perspective from Vietnam pp. 3137-3157

Quynh Nguyen, Maria Heui-Yeong Kim and Sandy Suardi

Does leading officials’ accountability audit of natural resources mitigate carbon emissions? Evidence from China pp. 3158-3175

Hua Zhang, Jie Lai and Chenyi Kang

Machine learning-driven asset pricing models: an exploration of feature sparsification and model optimisation pp. 3176-3191

Jifang Mai, Shaohua Zhang and Xiyue Zhang

The impact of carbon emission reduction policies on corporate ESG performance: evidence from low-carbon city pilots pp. 3192-3209

Yang He and Han Wang

Volume 58, issue 15, 2026

Digital transformation’s impact on upstream green technology innovation: a supply chain perspective pp. 2811-2828

Zhiqiang Bian and Mi Luo

An empirical evaluation of transitory and permanent components of the exchange rate volatility pp. 2829-2844

Amalia Morales-Zumaquero and Simon Sosvilla-Rivero

Separating policy burdens: quantifying the economic benefits and mechanisms in China’s state-owned enterprises pp. 2845-2858

Zhihao Zhao, Yingxuan Wang, Xiaofang Li and Xiang Qi

Government procurement and firm energy efficiency: evidence from China pp. 2859-2874

Ziwei Zhao and Shan Hu

Business environment and its impact on local government financing costs: evidence from the credit spread of municipal corporate bonds in China pp. 2875-2890

Chuntao Li, Yige Xie and Yi Zhao

The role of digital governance instruments and internet usage on government stability and regime durability pp. 2891-2908

Nasr Elbahnasawy, Ahmad Reshad Osmani and Timothy M. Shaughnessy

Subsidies and allocative efficiency in China’s rice production: does farm size matter? pp. 2909-2922

Rong Cai, Hairan Zhao, Shujuan Wang and Jie Ma

Endemic traditionalist culture and ESG disclosure quality: evidence from China pp. 2923-2937

Yafang Wu, Xiyang Lei, Chen Zhu, Huiling Liu and Qianzhi Dai

Do unemployed and inactive have time to sleep? Evidence from a developing country pp. 2938-2949

Burcu Duzgun Oncel

Hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ housing tenure choices in urban China: evidence from CMDS pp. 2950-2966

Jing Zou, Baitao Wang, Xiaoxuan Lan and Xiaojun Deng

Security prevails or affordability matters? The optimal ERP releasing strategy considering differentiated customer security perceptions pp. 2967-2983

Yangyang Sun, Yue Fang, Xuanrui Yu and Qin Su

Does income share influence the intra-household allocation of life insurance? An analysis based on the collective model and Chinese data pp. 2984-3000

Yating Wang, Hui Li, Yu Yan and Xiaoquan Wang

Volume 58, issue 14, 2026

Managerial incentives and effort substitution in concurrent mutual fund management pp. 2619-2633

Hsuan-Chi Chen and Christine W. Lai

How digital finance reduces corporate financial restatements: evidence from China pp. 2634-2648

Nanxin Ma, Zhuo Zhang, Xiaoran Lan, Keyu An and Yunjian Yang

Does foreign direct investment facilitate R&D activities of Indian local firms? pp. 2649-2663

Sanjay Kumar Mangla and Chih-Hai Yang

Artificial intelligence and green total factor energy efficiency: evidence from non-linear models pp. 2664-2680

Min Liu, Zihao Yuan and Weiying Ping

The impact of green finance on carbon emission efficiency: based on Chinese provincial panel data pp. 2681-2695

Huiping Wang and Yilong Cheng

Entrepreneurship and income inequality: a quantile approach from global panel data pp. 2696-2712

Moh’d Al-Azzam

Effect of financial integration on total factor productivity: innovation with spillover pp. 2713-2730

Chao Chen, Liyuan Zhang, Yoonbai Kim and Teng Zhang

Cursed hedge funds and market crashes pp. 2731-2743

Jingrui Pan, Shancun Liu, Qiang Zhang and Yaodong Yang

How do capital-biased tax incentives affect the capacity utilization rate of companies? Micro-empirical evidence from China pp. 2744-2757

Li Ji and Wei Zhang

Cooperative credit banks and economic fluctuations: the Italian case pp. 2758-2775

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Matteo Alessi

CEO partisan alignment and the cost of equity capital pp. 2776-2794

Kyeongmin Kim

Private information of IPO underwriters: evidence from underwriters’ human resource allocation pp. 2795-2810

Lei Chen, Tian Gao and Weijie Wang

Volume 58, issue 13, 2026

Fiscal policy effects on house prices and credit market conditions: empirical evidence from Italian NUTS-2 regional data pp. 2411-2428

Andrea Cipollini and Francesco Frangiamore

How social security contributions reshape migration in a spatial equilibrium pp. 2429-2445

Wenhan Liu, Sheng Ma and Chunzhi Li

Long-term care dependency and intergenerational living arrangements of elderly households: evidence from China pp. 2446-2462

Liping Fu, Ruizhen Wang and Chaoying He

Forced corporate social responsibility and incentive to manage earnings: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment pp. 2463-2479

Rajesh Pathak, Yogesh Chauhan and Ranjan Das Gupta

Can cooperating with technology companies increase the agricultural loans supply of commercial banks? pp. 2480-2496

Xiaojie Chen, Guangwen He and Calum G. Turvey

Superstition and corporate financial fraud: evidence from Chinese zodiac year beliefs pp. 2497-2515

Lin Zhang, Zepeng Sun and Chenlv Zeng

Renewable energy promotion and energy poverty nexus: do economic misery index and institutional quality matter? pp. 2516-2532

Elias Gakuru, Shaohua Yang, Ling Yang, Olufemi Samuel Adegboyo, J.p Namahoro and Vincent Nkundabaramye

The impact of intergenerational educational mobility on fertility intentions: evidence from China pp. 2533-2547

Juan Yang and Zebing Yang

Policy insights from outgroup social comparisons pp. 2548-2561

Danielle Kent

How enterprise innovation shapes stock price informativeness in emerging economies: evidence from China pp. 2562-2576

Shangze Dai, Fei Fan and Keke Zhang

Cashing in on export education: evaluating the implications of taxing international students pp. 2577-2597

Xianglong Locky Liu, James Giesecke and Jason Nassios

Corporate philanthropy for exports: evidence from VAT rebates allocation in China pp. 2598-2617

Jin Sun

Volume 58, issue 12, 2026

Navigating the digital terrain: assessing the impact of digital infrastructure on local tax enforcement pp. 2227-2245

Qurat Ul Ain, Tahir Yousaf and Bruno S. Sergi

The impact of high-standard farmland construction on farmland abandonment by farm households: evidence from rural China pp. 2246-2262

Ruisheng Li, Wenfeng Zhou, Shili Guo, Jiahao Song and Dingde Xu

Unveiling the natural yield curve: estimation and policy implications from the case of Korea pp. 2263-2277

Kyeongtak Do and Kwangyong Park

The marginal cost of carbon emissions abatement across sectors pp. 2278-2288

Jinggang Guo and Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Bank competition and labor share: evidence from China pp. 2289-2302

Mingxue Xu, Minyuan He and Xiwen Tang

Forecasting value-at-risk and expected shortfall of cryptocurrency using range-based copula method pp. 2303-2320

Tapan Kar and Sesha Meka

FinTech and branch network expansion: evidence from China’s banking industry pp. 2321-2336

Xudong Zhang and Zhihui Li

Did China’s strengthened regulation on public–private partnership promote the participation of private capital? pp. 2337-2351

Jie Li, Chen Wu and Wei Li

The impacts of playoffs and division structure on the competitive balance of sports leagues pp. 2352-2363

Doyoung Kim and Young Hoon Lee

Score-driven expected return and volatility spillovers between the Indian and United States stock markets pp. 2364-2382

Szabolcs Blazsek, Vijaya Subrahmanyam and Astrid Loretta Ayala

Energy literacy, income, and choice of energy-efficient appliances: a discrete choice experiment and welfare analysis in eight European countries pp. 2383-2397

Marie-Charlotte Guetlein, Joachim Schleich, Corinne Faure and Gengyang Tu

Do digital technologies affect the hiring and firing of older workers? Evidence from Russia pp. 2398-2410

Larisa Smirnykh

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 Driga, 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 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