Note: + denotes first / co-first author; * denotes corresponding author.
Published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026
Recommended citation: Dingyi Chang+, Yanni Yu, Yantuan Yu, & Xuhui Huang*. (2026). Heterogeneous impacts of digital economy on tourism: A causal forest analysis from China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 13, 1437.
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Published in Carbon Balance and Management, 2026
Recommended citation: Yantuan Yu+, Yutong Cai, Xuhui Huang*, & Zhenhua Zhang*. (2026). Carbon mitigation effect of service trade innovation: Quasi-experimental evidence from China. Carbon Balance and Management, 21, 24.
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Published in Research in International Business and Finance, 2026
Recommended citation: Yunning Ma+, Xuhui Huang+, Hyoungsuk Lee, Yongrok Choi*, & Fu-Sheng Tsai*. (2026). Can the financial scheme of emission trading affect technology development and sustainability. Research in International Business and Finance, 103211.
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Published in Issues in Agricultural Economy（农业经济问题, in Chinese）, 2025
Recommended citation: Yantuan Yu+, Dingyi Chang, & Xuhui Huang*. (2025). The industrial structure effect of rural industrial integration development: Evidence from National Rural Industrial Integration Demonstration Parks（农村产业融合发展的产业结构效应——来自国家农村产业融合发展示范园的经验证据）. Issues in Agricultural Economy（农业经济问题）, (08), 92–112. (in Chinese)
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Published in China Population, Resources and Environment（中国人口·资源与环境, in Chinese）, 2025
Recommended citation: Haoyu Hao, Xuhui Huang, & Ning Zhang*. (2025). Can network infrastructure construction enhance urban total-factor carbon productivity?（网络基础设施建设能提升城市全要素碳生产率吗？） China Population, Resources and Environment（中国人口·资源与环境）, 35(03), 46–56. (in Chinese)
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Published in Applied Energy, 2025
Recommended citation: Xuhui Huang+, Tao Zhou, & Ning Zhang*. (2025). How does the carbon market influence the marginal abatement cost? Evidence from China's coal-fired power plants. Applied Energy, 378, 124822.
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Published in Scientific Reports, 2024
Recommended citation: Ning Zhang+*, Xiahai Wei+, Xuhui Huang, Pan He, Yunxiao Liu, Hongyou Liu, Tao Lin, Xin Shi, Zhu Liu, & Richard B. Freeman. (2024). The impact of transient air pollution exposure on worker performance in Chinese soccer players. Scientific Reports, 14, 31093.
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Published in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2024
Recommended citation: Dingyi Chang+, Xuhui Huang+, Chao Wang, & Ning Zhang*. (2024). Temperature shocks and low-carbon performance: Evidence from the transportation sector in China. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 133, 104282.
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Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024
Recommended citation: Shuying Yuan+, Dingyi Chang+, Xuhui Huang*, & Ning Zhang*. (2024). Weather shocks and athlete performance: Evidence from the Chinese Soccer Super League. Journal of Cleaner Production, 451, 142080.
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Published in Energy Economics, 2023
Recommended citation: Tao Zhou+, Xuhui Huang+, & Ning Zhang*. (2023). The effect of innovation pilot on carbon total factor productivity: Quasi-experimental evidence from China. Energy Economics, 125, 106895. (ESI Highly Cited)
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Published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2023
Recommended citation: Tao Zhou+, Xuhui Huang+, & Ning Zhang*. (2023). Does the high-speed railway make cities more carbon efficient? Evidence from the perspective of the spatial spillover effect. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 101, 107137.
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Published in Energy Economics, 2022
Recommended citation: Ning Zhang+, Xuhui Huang+, & Chao Qi*. (2022). The effect of environmental regulation on the marginal abatement cost of industrial firms: Evidence from the 11th Five-Year Plan in China. Energy Economics, 112, 106147.
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Published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
Recommended citation: Ning Zhang+, Xuhui Huang+, & Yunxiao Liu*. (2021). The cost of low-carbon transition for China's coal-fired power plants: A quantile frontier approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 169, 120809.
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Ning Zhang and Kerui Du. (2026) Efficiency and Productivity Analysis for Sustainability: Theory, Application and Programming, Springer. (Contributed to writing Chapters 10–12).