Empty pages or pages with no content impact negatively on the SEO of your overall site. When the search engine crawls empty pages and finds no useful content, they mark them as soft-404 errors, negatively affecting your website.
Therefore, it's better if you don't create any such pages. Still, sometimes you need to have them, for example, a search result page or a category page like <marketing/affiliate-marketing> where you don't have any content for the "marketing" page.
In this case, you should mark them as noindex and nofollow. And these pages should have no internal links.
To get the top ranking in the SERP, you must have quality content on your page.