Pengxiang Zhai

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 789 citations indexed

About

Pengxiang Zhai is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Finance and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengxiang Zhai has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 789 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 13 papers in Finance and 6 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Pengxiang Zhai's work include Market Dynamics and Volatility (18 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (11 papers) and Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds (6 papers). Pengxiang Zhai is often cited by papers focused on Market Dynamics and Volatility (18 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (11 papers) and Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds (6 papers). Pengxiang Zhai collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and France. Pengxiang Zhai's co-authors include Qiang Ji, Rufei Ma, Zhenhua Liu, Dandan Ma, Dayong Zhang, Kun Guo, Yanran Ma, Zhihua Ding, Xunpeng Shi and Shan Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, Frontiers in Microbiology and Energy Economics.

In The Last Decade

Pengxiang Zhai

32 papers receiving 768 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A news-based climate policy uncertainty index for China

2023 176 citations Yanran Ma, Zhenhua Liu et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pengxiang Zhai China	13	647	188	167	78	77	32	789
Cody Yu‐Ling Hsiao Australia	15	409 0.6×	108 0.6×	157 0.9×	50 0.6×	89 1.2×	42	550
Satar Bakhsh China	14	600 0.9×	254 1.4×	92 0.6×	63 0.8×	74 1.0×	19	730
Victor Troster Spain	11	876 1.4×	297 1.6×	226 1.4×	30 0.4×	157 2.0×	21	960
Ibrahim D. Raheem United Kingdom	11	910 1.4×	268 1.4×	164 1.0×	19 0.2×	132 1.7×	19	965
Naif Alsagr Saudi Arabia	11	486 0.8×	245 1.3×	51 0.3×	41 0.5×	65 0.8×	21	593
Christian Urom France	16	633 1.0×	142 0.8×	176 1.1×	28 0.4×	71 0.9×	45	725
Thi Ngoc Lan Le Australia	7	651 1.0×	173 0.9×	207 1.2×	26 0.3×	37 0.5×	7	753
Saqib Farid Pakistan	17	1.2k 1.9×	311 1.7×	416 2.5×	45 0.6×	99 1.3×	34	1.4k
Wasim Ahmad India	16	824 1.3×	284 1.5×	266 1.6×	34 0.4×	145 1.9×	26	917
Bisharat Hussain Chang Pakistan	23	1.2k 1.9×	454 2.4×	162 1.0×	43 0.6×	336 4.4×	54	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Pengxiang Zhai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pengxiang Zhai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pengxiang Zhai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pengxiang Zhai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pengxiang Zhai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pengxiang Zhai. Pengxiang Zhai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Rufei, et al.. (2025). How does environmental regulatory stringency shape ESG? Evidence from cross-listing. International Review of Financial Analysis. 104. 104316–104316. 3 indexed citations

Ji, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Climate awareness in management and deviation from target leverage: Evidence from China. Finance research letters. 76. 106915–106915. 2 indexed citations

Ji, Qiang, Dandan Ma, Pengxiang Zhai, Ying Fan, & Dayong Zhang. (2024). Global climate policy uncertainty and financial markets. Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money. 95. 102047–102047. 41 indexed citations

Ma, Rufei, et al.. (2024). Do climate-exposed firms hold more cash? Global evidence. Economics Letters. 237. 111651–111651. 12 indexed citations

Zhai, Pengxiang, et al.. (2024). CLIMATE RISKS AND FINANCIAL MARKETS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. Climate Change Economics. 15(4). 6 indexed citations

Ma, Dandan, Pengxiang Zhai, Dayong Zhang, & Qiang Ji. (2024). Excess stock returns and corporate environmental performance in China. Financial Innovation. 10(1). 12 indexed citations

Ren, Xiaohang, et al.. (2024). Seeing is believing: Forecasting crude oil price trend from the perspective of images. Journal of Forecasting. 43(7). 2809–2821. 11 indexed citations

Ma, Dandan, Yunhan Zhang, Qiang Ji, Wanli Zhao, & Pengxiang Zhai. (2023). Heterogeneous impacts of climate change news on China's financial markets. International Review of Financial Analysis. 91. 103007–103007. 43 indexed citations

Wang, Hui, et al.. (2023). Research progress on using biological cathodes in microbial fuel cells for the treatment of wastewater containing heavy metals. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1270431–1270431. 4 indexed citations

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Ren, Xiaohang, Yiying Li, Qiang Ji, & Pengxiang Zhai. (2023). Climate policy uncertainty and the green bond market: fresh insights from the QARDL model. Applied Economics Letters. 32(4). 464–469. 16 indexed citations

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Ma, Yanran, Zhenhua Liu, Dandan Ma, et al.. (2023). A news-based climate policy uncertainty index for China. Scientific Data. 10(1). 881–881. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Shuo, et al.. (2023). Unconventional, conventional monetary policies, and optimal energy supply structure in China. Finance research letters. 54. 103732–103732. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Rufei, Qiang Ji, Pengxiang Zhai, & Ruibo Yang. (2022). Environmental violations, refinancing risk, and the corporate bond cost in China. Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting. 33(3). 480–504. 46 indexed citations

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Chen, Jinyu, et al.. (2022). Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Technological Innovation: An Institutional Environment Perspective. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Zhai, Pengxiang, Fei Wu, Qiang Ji, & Duc Khuong Nguyen. (2022). From fears to recession? Time‐frequency risk contagion among stock and credit default swap markets during the COVID pandemic. International Journal of Finance & Economics. 29(1). 551–580. 10 indexed citations

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Ma, Rufei, Zhenhua Liu, & Pengxiang Zhai. (2022). Does economic policy uncertainty drive volatility spillovers in electricity markets: Time and frequency evidence. Energy Economics. 107. 105848–105848. 54 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhenhua, Xunpeng Shi, Pengxiang Zhai, et al.. (2021). Tail risk connectedness in the oil-stock nexus: Evidence from a novel quantile spillover approach. Resources Policy. 74. 102381–102381. 84 indexed citations

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Zhai, Pengxiang, et al.. (2017). R&D cooperation, financial constraint and innovation performance. Interciencia. 42(6). 355–363. 3 indexed citations

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Zhai, Pengxiang, et al.. (2017). Does ownership structure affect trade credit policy in small- and medium-sized firms? Evidence from China. Ensayos sobre Política Económica. 35(83). 130–138. 4 indexed citations

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Zhai, Pengxiang & Rufei Ma. (2017). An Analysis on the Structural Breaks in Dynamic Conditional Correlations Among Equity Markets Based on the ICSS Algorithm: The Case from 2015-2016 Chinese Stock Market Turmoil. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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