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)、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（2023-2024）：
1)Xu Cheng, Xiandeng Jiang, Dongmin Kong*, Samuel Vigne, Shifting Stakeholders Logics: Foreign Institutional Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility.Journal of Business Ethics, 2024. (FT50, SSCI Q1, ABS-4)
2) Zhifang Zhou, Qi Shi,Xu Cheng*, Impact of Digital Transformation Misalignment on Supplier Financial Risk.International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Accept. (SSCI Q1, ABS-4)
3) Huixiang Zeng, Lei Ren, Xiaohong Chen, Qiong Zhou, Tao Zhang,Xu Cheng*, Punishment or Deterrence? Environmental Justice Construction and Corporate Equity Financing——Evidence from environmental courts.Journal of Corporate Finance, Accept. (SSCI Q1, ABS-4, IF: 6.1)
4) Xiaohang Ren, Yan Zhong,Xu Cheng*, Cheng Yan, Giray Gozgor, Does carbon price uncertainty affect stock price crash risk? Evidence from China.Energy Economics, 2023 122, 106689. (SSCI Q1, IF: 12.8,高被引ESI前1%,热点论文)
5) Zhifang Zhou, Shangjie Han,Xu Cheng*, Anti-corruption and corporate pollution mitigation: Evidence from China.Ecological Economics, 2023 208: 107795. (SSCI Q1, IF: 7)
6)周志方,韩尚杰,程序*.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, 2023,49(11):125-139. (CSSCI)
