Peer-reviewed Work
Cojoianu, T., Hoepner, A., Hu, X., Ramadan, M., Veneri, P., Wojcik, D. (2023) Are Cities Venturing Green? A Global Analysis of Green Entrepreneurship and Air Pollution at the City Level. Accepted. Small Business Economics.
Liu, J.; Zhu, Y.; Zhang, Q.; Cheng, F.; Hu, X.; Cui, X.; Zhang, L.; Sun, Z (2021). Transportation Carbon Emissions from a Perspective of Sustainable Development in Major Cities of Yangtze River Delta, China. Sustainability, 13, 192.
Huang, J., Li, W., Gun, L., Hu, X., Hall, J. (2020) Renewable Energy and Household Economy in rural China. Renewable Energy.
Hu, X., Pant, R., Hall, J., Surminski, S., Huang, J. (2019) Multi-Scale Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Flooding: Evidence from Firm to Macro-Level Analysis in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector. Sustainability, 11(7): 1933.
Hu, X., Hall, J.W., Shi, P. and Lim, W-H. (2015) The spatial exposure of the Chinese infrastructure system to flooding and drought hazards. Natural Hazards, 80(2): 1083-1118.
Zhang, X., Zhao, X., Shen, J., Hu, X., Liu, X. and Xu, J. (2013) Design, fabrication and experimental study of a solar photovoltaic/loop-heat-pipe based heat pump system. Solar Energy, 97: 551-568.
Papers Under Review
Hu, X., Huang, J., Cojoianu, T., Pant, R., Hall, J.W. (2024) Spatial Dynamics of Infrastructure Development: Using 65 years of Evidence from China. Under Review. Environment & Planning A.
Huang, J., Chen, W., Yang, S., Guo, L., Hu, X., Li, W., Chen, Y., Wang, Y., Li, J. (2024) New Energy Vehicle Intervention Has Reduced Carbon Emissions. Under review. Nature Sustainability.
Chen Y., Wang Y., Hu, X., Li, W., Huang, J., Guo, L. (2024) NGOs as Stakeholders: How and When Do They Influence Corporate Social Responsibility? Under review. Business and Society.
Li, W., Hu, X., Guo, L., Huang, J. (2024) Judicial Supervision and Litigation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Under review. Social Science Research.
Zhang X., Li, H., Hu, X., Guo, L., Huang, J. (2024) Corporate Social Responsibility Reduces Litigation Risks. Under review. Academy of Management Journal.
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Vedula S., Doblinger, C., Cojoianu, T., Fischer, D., Hu, X., York, J. (2024) Spare me the Sermon, show me the money: decoupling cleantech venture moral and pragmatic legitimacy in Strategic Management Society’s 44th Annual Conference.
Helbing, P., Xiao, B., Cojoianu T., Hu, S., Hoepner, A., (2024) Does Gender affect the investment strategy of Private equity and Venture capital firms? Evidence from Impact investing in 2024 French Finance Association Conference.
Hu, X., Lim, W.H., Pant, R., Hall, J., Lu, Xi. (2017) The spatial exposure of China’s infrastructure system to flooding risks in the context of climate change in the Fifth Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Annual Conference, World Bank.
Hu, X., Hall, J.W. and Thacker, S. (2014) Too big to fail? the spatial vulnerability of the Chinese infrastructure system to flooding risks, in: Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling, and Analysis (ISUMA). Vulnerability, Uncertainty and Risk: 704-714.
Book Chapter
Working Papers
Policy Papers, Reports, Media and Opinions
Wang, B., Wang, L., Lin, W., Song, Y., Wang Y., Zhang X., Lu Z., Luo Y., Yan, Y., Wang C., Hu, J., Sun, L., Hu, X. (2021). The Self We Choose (featuring the life stories of scientists from the largest ever all-women expedition to Antarctica). China Citic Press.
Blackburn, B., Chan, T., Freeman R., Hu, X., Rhodes, A. (2024). The Impact of Survey Nonresponse Bias On Estimates of Provider Wellbeing. NBER Working Paper Series. Forthcoming.
Blackburn, B., Chan, T., Cherot, E., Freeman R., Hu, X., Matt, Eric., Rhodes, A. (2023). Beyond Burnout: from Measuring to Forecasting. NBER Working Paper Series.
Hu, X., Pant, R., Koks, E., Huang, J., Hallegatte, S., Lim, W., Lu, X., Freeman, R., Hall, J. (2024) Pricing climate risks into infrastructure investments: a case demonstration of achieving resilience for China’s infrastructures.
Hu, X., Freeman, R. (2024) Determinants of Business Software Reviews and Impacts of Reviews on Prices and Popularity of Software.
Hu, X., Freeman, R. (2024) Global Business Reponses to Covid-19: A Synthesis.
Hu, X., Freeman, R. (2024) Do software robots replace white collar jobs? Evidence from the US and China.
Engel, J., Hu, X. (2024) Mining Their Own Business? Evolution of Common Ownership for Leading Metals and Minerals from 2010-16.
Yu G., Lu, S., Hu, H., Guo, L., Hu, X., Huang, J (2024) Will rural-urban migration alleviate poverty? Evidence from a natural experiment in China.
Guo, L., Chen Y., Wang Y., Huang J., Hu, X (2024). NGOs as Stakeholders: How and When Do They Influence Corporate Social Responsibility.
Li J., Ho M., Hu, X (2024). Let them know they are spending money: nudge and energy conservation.
Pant, R., Fuldaeur L., Hu, X., Paltan, H., Russel T., Verschuur J., Zorn, C., Hall, J (2021). From local to global scales – Quantifying climate risks and adaptation opportunities for networked infrastructure systems. Technical paper submitted to UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022.
Hu, X., Zhang Y., (2020) Why it’s time to build climate resilience into Chinese manufacturing. China Dialogue, 4 Aug 2020.
Huang, J., Wang, S., Guo, L., Hu, X., Wang, Y. (2020) Tackling Misinformation and Delivering Scientific Evidence. Science.
Hall, J.W., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Ayyub, B.M., Hallegatte, S., Harvey, M., Hu, X., Koks, E.E., Lee, C., Liao, X., Mullan, M., Pant, R., Paszkowski, A., Rozenberg, J., Sheng, F., Stenek, V., Thacker, S., Väänänen, E., Vallejo, L., Veldkamp, T.I.E., van Vliet, M., Wada, Y., Ward, P., Watkins, G., and Zorn, C. (2019). Adaptation of Infrastructure Systems: Background Paper for the Global Commission on Adaptation. Oxford: Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Hu, Xi., Pant, R., Zorn, C., Lim, W., Koks., Mao, Zhimin. (2019). Methodology and Findings for the Exposure Analysis of the Chinese Wastewater Sector to Flooding and Earthquakes Hazards (English). Policy Research working paper; no. WPS 8903. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
Kirchherr, J., Repp, L., Hu, X., van Santen., R (2018). Greening the belt and road initiative, WWF's recommendations for the finance sector in partnership with HSBC.
Yang, Y., Hu, X., Dangerfield, M. and Sheng, X. (2017). Oxford International Infrastructure Consortium: Second Global Infrastructure Conference Report. "Bridging the Infrastructure Gap: Global Integration and the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative". Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment; ITRC; Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. ISBN: 978-1-874370-68-0.
Yang, Y., Hu, X., Dangerfield, M. and Kaminker, C. (2015). Infrastructure Investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: Systems-Thinking for New Institutions and Global Challenges. Oxford International Infrastructure Consortium: 2015 Global Workshop Report. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment; ITRC; Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. ISBN: 978-1-874370-57-4.
Hu, X. (2016) Where will climate change impact China most? World Economic Forum, 5 April 2016.
Hu, X. (2016) Special report: Climate change poses grave threats to China's essential infrastructure. China Dialogue, 20 April 2016.
Hu, X. (2016) How Climate Change Threatens China's Essential Infrastructure: China's planners need to take much greater account of climate risks to water supply, energy, roads, and railways. The Diplomat, 20 April 2016.