主持国家自然科学基金青年项目（2024-2026），湖南省自然科学基金面上项目(2026-2028)，湖南省自然科学基金青年项目（2022-2024），湖南省社会科学成果评审委员会课题（2022-2024），参与多项国家自然科学/社会科学基金重大项目，面上项目以及省部级项目。以第一作者或通讯作者身份在Journal of Corporate Finance(ABS-4)、Journal of Business Ethics(FT50)、International Journal of Operations and Production Management(ABS-4)、Financial Management、Ecological Economics、Energy Economics、Financial Review、Technological Forecasting & Social Change、Pacific-Basin Finance Journal、Journal of Business Research、Business & Society、Economic Modelling、IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management、Journal of Multinational Financial Management、财经研究、审计研究、金融学季刊等期刊发表论文二十余篇。
部分代表作：
[1] Zeng, H., Lu, W., Zhou, J., Kong, D., Cheng, Xu (唯一通讯), & Huang, L. (2025). Collective empathy could leap through time: War heritage and corporate green innovation. Journal of Corporate Finance, 93, 102808. (SSCI Q1, ABS-4)
[2] Zeng, H., Ren, L., Chen, X., Zhou, Q., Zhang, T., & Cheng, Xu (唯一通讯),(2024). Punishment or deterrence? Environmental justice construction and corporate equity financing—Evidence from environmental courts. Journal of Corporate Finance, 86, 102583. (SSCI Q1, ABS-4, ESI前1%高被引)
[3] Chen, Y., Cheng, Xu (唯一通讯), Kong, D., & Liu, W. (2026). The implicit costs of biodiversity conservation: Evidence from corporate investment distortion in China. Financial Management. (SSCI Q2, ABS-3)
[4] Cheng, Xu , Jiang, X., Kong, D.*, & Vigne, S. (2024). Shifting stakeholders logics: Foreign institutional ownership and corporate social responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics. 194(1),165-183. (FT50, SSCI Q1, ABS-3)
[5] Chen, X., Shi, Q., Zhou, Z.*, & Cheng, Xu. (2025). Impact of digital transformation misalignment on supplier financial risk. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.45,152-184. (SSCI Q1, ABS-4)
[6] Ren, X., Li, W., Cheng, Xu (唯一通讯), & Zheng, X. (2024). Economic freedom and corporate carbon emissions: International evidence. Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(8), 8388-8412. (SSCI Q1, ABS-3)
[7] Zhou, Z., Han, S., & Cheng, Xu (唯一通讯), (2023). Anti-corruption and corporate pollution mitigation: Evidence from China. Ecological Economics, 208, 107795. (SSCI Q1, ABS-3)
[8] 周志方, 韩尚杰, & 程序(唯一通讯),(2023). 市场准入管制放松与企业创新——基于“市场准入负面清单制度”试点的准自然实验. 《财经研究》, 49(11), 125-139. (CSSCI)
[9] Ren, X., Zhong, Y., Cheng, Xu. (唯一通讯)*, Yan, C., & Gozgor, G. (2023). Does carbon price uncertainty affect stock price crash risk? Evidence from China. Energy Economics, 122, 106689. (SSCI Q1, ABS-3, ESI前1%高被引)
[10] Cheng, Xu , Kong, D., Zheng, X.*, & Tang, Q. (2022). Do foreign investors crowd out sell-side analysts? Evidence from China. Financial Review, 57(4), 815-834. (ABS-3)
