This page lists all publications of Prof. Dr. Lin Zhang by Sep. 2026

(a) Peer-reviewed articles in English

• Zanfeng Wang, Wenji Zhou, Hongtao Ren, Haiping Sun, Boshu Li, Lin Zhang, Feng Song, Xi Lu (2026). Geopolitically Driven Resource Stranding and Carbon Emissions from Global Oil and Gas Supply. Environmental Science & Technology, forthcoming.
• Qiang Li, Lidong Chen, Wei Jin, & Lin Zhang (2026). Which carbon policies redirect innovation? Comparative evidence on policy instruments and policy mixes in China. Energy Economics, 162, 109581.
• Jessica W.Y. Leung, Puguang Nie, Russell Smyth, Lin Zhang, Quanda Zhang, Xibin Zhang (2026). Persistent and transient inefficiency in China’s provincial energy demand: A four-component stochastic frontier model. Energy Economics, 161, 109498.
• Yao Tang, Weiyi Shi, Lin Zhang, Qing Huang, and Huanguang Qiu (2026): Health on the Move: The Impact of Poverty Alleviation Relocation on Healthcare Utilization in China. Health Economics, 1–15.
• Xinya Hao, Lin Zhang, Huanhuan Zheng (2026): FDI and Coal Lock-In: The Global South’s Development Dilemma. World Development, 206, 107453.
• Xinya Hao, Ao Sun, Feng Song, Huanhuan Zheng, Lin Zhang (2026): The Green Spark of Partial Reform: Evidence from China’s Electricity Market Experiment. PNAS Nexus, 5(4), pgag100.
• Minglai Li, Hongyan Zhang, Lin Zhang, Huanhuan Zheng (2026): Home-Country Climate Regulation and Strategic Response of Multinational Enterprises: Investment Relocation or Green Innovation? International Business Review, 35(4), 102597.
• Qiang Li, Lin Zhang (2026): Whose Voices Are Being Heard? The Impacts of Public Participation on Policy Attention in China. American Review of Public Administration, 56(4), 334-351.
• Haijing Zhang, Bangzhu Zhu, Lin Zhang, Yunhao Dai (2026): How does mandatory climate change disclosure affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from US-listed firms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 551, 147918.
• Danyang Tao, et al. (2026): Liquid Crystal Monomers Released from LCD Displays Accumulate in Endangered Marine Cetaceans Triggering Health Concerns. Environmental Science & Technology, 60(9), 7437-7448.
• Qiang Li, Lin Zhang (2026): How Does Local Policy Attention Reshape Environmental Justice? Ecological Economics, 241, 108864.
• Yunguo Lu, Jing Liang, Xiaojun Yu, Lin Zhang (2026): Environmental Regulation and the Proliferation of Zombie Firms: Evidence from China’s Pollution Levy System. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 69, 5.
• Hanmin Dong, Lin Zhang (2025): Climate Risk and Tax Avoidance of Climate Sensitive Firms. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34 (7), 8429-8449.
  Featured in cover page of Volume 34 Issue 7 of Business Strategy and the Environment
• Zhe Jiang, Ning Liu, Xiaobing Zhang, Yanlai Chu, Lin Zhang (2025): Proactive social learning and green product consumption: Evidence from new energy vehicle sales in China. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 219, 124232.
• Xinya Hao, Yongying Huang, Lin Zhang (2025): High Temperature, Power Rationing, and Firm Performance. Journal of Development Economics, 176, 103541.
  - Featured in VoxChina
• Samhita Ankareddy, Gregor Dorfleitner, Lin Zhang, Yong Sik Ok (2025): Embedding sustainability in higher education institutions: A review of practices and challenges. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 17, 100279.
• Yunguo Lu, Zhe Jiang, Lin Zhang (2025): Effects of Ownership Reform on Energy and Emission Intensity of Chinese Firms. The Energy Journal, 46(4), 87-116.
• Mukti Subedi, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq, Lin Zhang (2025): Impact of civil conflict on household energy choices: Implications for the clean energy transition. World Development, 189, 106922.
• Zhe Jiang, Yunguo Lu, Lin Zhang (2025): Integrating sentiment information for risk prediction: The case of crude oil futures market in China. Empirical Economics, 68, 1677-1718.
• Zhe Jiang, Zili Zhang, Lin Zhang (2025): Forecasting China's short-term energy futures price using a novel secondary decomposition-optimized system. Computational Economics, in press.
• Cong Li, Minglai Li, Lin Zhang, Qiang Li, Hua Zheng, Marcus W. Feldman (2025): Energy-poverty-inequality SDGs: A large-scale household analysis and forecasting in China. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 122(1), e2408167121.
  - Featured in NSFC, China Daily, TriplePundit, Yahoo!, Line Today, 光明日报、人民网（人民日报）、科学网（中国科学报）东方日报，大公报，紫荆网，香港文汇等
• Xiaojun Yu, Wei Jin, Lin Zhang (2025): Hunting Tigers and Harvesting Productivity: Evidence from Energy Firms in China. The Energy Journal, 46(1), 203-240.
• Lin Zhang (2024): Understanding the new quality productive forces in the energy sector. Energy Nexus, 16, 100352.
• Zi-Hao Qin, Anda Fridrihsone, Liang Dong, Jin-Hua Mou, Yahui Miao, Lin Zhang, Chunbao Xu, Mikelis Kirpluks, Carol Sze Ki Lin (2024): Environmental benefits of valorising food waste into bio-based polyols for the production of polyurethane rigid foams. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 51, 572-583.
• Wei Jin, Meifen Ma, Lin Zhang (2024): Path Dependence in Environment-related Innovation: evidence from Listed Firms in China. Applied Economics, Published online: 22 Sep 2024.
• Xiaojun Yu, Qiang Lia, Lin Zhang (2024): Major Government Customer and Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Evidence from China. Journal of Business Research, 183, 114853.
• Qiang Li, Minglai Li, Lin Zhang (2024): Revisiting the relationship between ESG, institutional ownership, and corporate innovation: An efficiency perspective. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 31(6), 6504-6525.
• Hanmin Dong, Lin Zhang, Huanhuan Zheng (2024): Green Bonds: Fueling Green Innovation or Just a Fad? Energy Economics, 107660.
• Wei Jin, Frederick van der Ploeg, Lin Zhang (2024): How Clean Capital Slows Down Disinvestment of Carbon-intensive Capital in the Low-carbon Transition. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 162, 104857.
  - The working paper version titled "Do We Still Need Carbon-Intensive Capital When Transitioning to a Green Economy?" received Outstanding Paper Award on Global Competition for Carbon Neutrality by CICC Global Institute
• Qin, Z. H., Fridrihsone, A., Mou, J. H., Pomilovskis, R., Godina, D., Miao, Y., Liu, Z. Y., Tsang, C., Zhang, L., Xu, C., Chopra, S. S., Kaulina, E., Kirpluks, M. & Lin, C. S. K. (2024). Valorisation of food waste into bio-based polyurethane rigid foams: From experimental investigation to techno-economic analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal, 152680.
• Ziqiao Zhou, Xiaotian Ma, Silu Zhang, Chaoyi Guo, Xiaorui Liu, Lin Zhang, and Yang Xie (2024). Equity-based Carbon Neutral Plan Induces Cross-regional Coal Leakage and Industrial Relocation. iScience, 27(3), 109079.
• Hongyan Zhang, Lin Zhang, Ning Zhang (2024): When and Under What Conditions Does an Emission Trading Scheme Become Cost Effective? The Energy Journal, 45(2), 261-294.
• Ye Tian, Wen Zhou, Lin Zhang, Yue Zhang, and Ruhua Zhang (2023): Changes in ENSO Modulation of the Distribution of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific in Boreal Autumn. Journal of Climate, 36 (22), 7739-7753.
• Shanshan Shang, Chao Yang, Yuanmeng Tian, Zeyu Tao, Mallory Smith, Hongyan Zhang, Lin Zhang, et al. (2023): Designing Multivariate Porphyrin-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks with Ni/Co Dual-Metal Atom Sites for Cooperative NO2 Capture and NO Retention. Separation and Purification Technology, 320, 124080.
• Da Zhang, Hantang Peng, Lin Zhang (2023): Share of Polluting Input as a Sufficient Statistic for Burden Sharing. Energy Economics, 106647.
• Hongyan Zhang, Lin Zhang (2023): Public Support and Energy Innovation: Why do Firms React Differently? Energy Economics, 106528.
• Ying Zhao, Lin Zhang, Yuanping Lu, Bo Wen (2023): More Rights but Less Gains: Relaxed Birth Control Policy and the Loss for Women. China & World Economy, 1-33.
• Yunguo Lu, Lin Zhang (2023): Environmental Information Disclosure and Firm Production: Evidence from the Estimated Efficiency of Publicly Listed Firms in China. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 59, 99-119.
  - This paper received the Second Prize of Outstanding Achievements awarded by the Economics Society of Zhejiang Province
• Yao An, Lin Zhang (2023): The Thirst for Power: The Impacts of Water Availability on Electricity Generation in China. The Energy Journal, 44(2), 205-240.
• Hanmin Dong, Lin Zhang (2023): Transition Towards Carbon Neutrality: Forecasting Hong Kong's Buildings Carbon Footprint by 2050 Using a Machine Learning Approach. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 35, 633-642.
• Aude Pommeret, Xiaojun Yu, Lin Zhang (2022): Stringency of Environmental Policy in China: When Pollution Drives Bribery. Economic Modelling, 117, 106048.
• Avanthi Deshani Igalavithana, Siming You, Lin Zhang, Jin Shang, Johannes Lehmann, Xiaonan Wang, Yong-Guan Zhu, et al. (2022): Progress, Barriers, and Prospects for Achieving a "Hydrogen Society" and Opportunities for Biochar Technology. ACS ES&T Engineering, 2, 11, 1987–2001.
• Sisi Li, Sufyan Ullah Khan, Yao Yao, George S. Chen, Lin Zhang, Ruhul Salim, Jiaying Huo (2022): Estimating the Long-run Crude Oil Demand Function of China: Some New Evidence and Policy Options. Energy Policy, 170, 113244.
• Yao An, Ning Liu, Lin Zhang, Huanhuan Zheng (2022): Adapting to Climate Risks through Cross-Border Investments: Industrial Vulnerability and Smart City Resilience. Climatic Change, 174, 10.
• Yao An, Qiang Li, Lin Zhang (2022): Managing Agricultural Water Use in a Changing Climate in China. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 33, 978-990.
• Yao Yao, Xue Li, Russell Smyth, Lin Zhang (2022): Air Pollution and Political Trust in Local Government: Evidence from China. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 115, 102724.
• Hongyan Zhang, Lixuan Zhou, Ning Liu, Lin Zhang (2022): Seemingly Bounded Knowledge, Trust, and Public Acceptance: How Does Citizen's Environmental Knowledge Affect Facility Siting? Journal of Environmental Management, 320, 115941.
• Cuicui Cheng, You Zhou, Lin Zhang (2022): Sustainable Environmental Management through Municipal Solid Waste Charging Scheme: A Hong Kong Perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10:919683.
• Joonho Yeo, Shauhrat S. Chopra, David von Eiff, Sanghyun Jeong, Lin Zhang, Alicia Kyoungjin An (2022): An Integrated Techno-economic Analysis on Wastewater Reclamation in Hong Kong: A Comprehensive Cost-benefit Analysis with Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 357, 131838.
• Bangzhu Zhu, Junjie Tang, Ping Wang, Lin Zhang (2022): Exploring the Drivers of Carbon Market Risk: A Meta Regression Analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 352, 131538.
• Quande Qin, Lin Zhang, Xunpeng Shi, Bangzhu Zhu (2022): Rethinking on the Green Energy Development: Cognitive Biases. Frontiers in Energy Research, 10:895127.
• Yunguo Lu, Lin Zhang (2022): National Mitigation Policy and the Competitiveness of Chinese Firms. Energy Economics, 109, 105971.
• Yao Yao, George Chen, Lin Zhang (2022): Gender Segregation in the Causal Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Educational Attainment: The Chinese Experience. Applied Economics, 54 (51), 5889–5903.
• Bangzhu Zhu, Chenxin Xu, Ping Wang, Lin Zhang (2022): How Does Internal Carbon Pricing Affect Corporate Environmental Performance? Journal of Business Research, 145, 65-77.
• Ziqiao Zhou, Lin Zhang (2022): Sustainable Waste Management and Waste to Energy: Valuation of Energy Potential of MSW in the Greater Bay Area of China. Energy Policy, 163, 112857.
• Zhe Jiang, Lin Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Wen Bo (2022): Investor Sentiment and Machine Learning: Predicting the Price of China's Crude Oil Futures Market. Energy, 123471.
• Zhanchi Wu, Xiangjun Fan, Bangzhu Zhu, Jiahui Xia, Lin Zhang, Ping Wang (2022): Do Government Subsidies Improve Innovation Investment for New Energy Firms: A Quasi-natural Experiment of China's Listed Companies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 175, 121418.
• Ye Wang, Zhe Jianga, Lin Zhang (2022): Sponge City Policy and Sustainable City Development: The Case of Shenzhen. Frontiers in Environmental Science.
• Haowei Yu, Lin Zhang (2022): Politically Connected Firms and the Environment. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 22 (2), 579-602.
• Zhixiong Ding, Xiaojun Yu, Zhenxi Ma, Wei Wu, Lin Zhang, Denis Y. W. Yu, Don H.K. Cheng (2022): On-site Measurement and Simulation Investigation on Condensation Dehumidification and Desiccant Dehumidification in Hong Kong. Energy and Buildings, 254, 111560.
  - This paper received Environmental Paper Award by The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
• Wei Jin, Xunpeng Shi, Lin Zhang (2021): Energy Transition without Dirty Capital Stranding. Energy Economics, 102, 105508.
  - This paper received the Honorable Mention Award for the APPAM-CPSG Inaugural Best Policy Research Article Award for paper
• Yao Yao, Lin Zhang, Ruhul Salim, Shuddhasattwa Rafiq (2021): The Effect of Human Capital on CO2 Emissions: Macro Evidence from China. The Energy Journal, 42(6), 67-96.
• Yao Yao, George S. Chen, Lin Zhang (2021): Local Financial Intermediation and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China. International Review of Economics & Finance, 72, 98-216.
• Philip Kofi Adom, Joonho Yeoa, Lin Zhang (2021): Is Water Use Sustainable and Efficient in China? Evidence from a Macro Level Analysis. Applied Economics, 53:53, 6166-6183.
• Ziqiao Zhou, Lin Zhang (2021): Destructive Destruction or Creative Destruction? Unravelling the Effects of Tropical Cyclones on Economic Growth. Economic Analysis and Policy, 70, 380-393.
• Weili Sheng, Xiaoming Kan, Bo Wen, Lin Zhang (2021): Design Matters: New Insights on Optimizing Energy Consumption for the Communal Area in Residential Buildings. Energy and Buildings, 242, 110976.
• Weili Sheng, Bo Wen, Lin Zhang (2021). Envelope Performance of Residential Building in Cool, Warm and Hot Climatic Zones: Results from Self-designed in-situ Monitoring Campaigns. Energy and Buildings, 232, 110655.
• Ye Wang, Yunguo Lu, Lin Zhang. (2021): Opportunity Cost of Environmental Regulation in China's Industrial Sector. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(16): 8579.
• Xiaojun Yu, Yao Yao, Huanhuan Zheng, Lin Zhang (2020): The Role of Political Connection on Overinvestment of Chinese Energy Firms. Energy Economics, 85, 104516.
• Weili Sheng, Lin Zhang, Ian Ridley (2020): The Impact of Minimum OTTV Legislation on Building Energy Consumption. Energy Policy, 136.
• Lin Fang, Fengping Wu, Yantuan Yu, Lin Zhang (2020): Irrigation Technology and Water Rebound in China's Agricultural Sector. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
• Lin Fang, Lin Zhang (2020): Does the Trading of Water Rights Encourage Technology Improvement and Agricultural Water Conservation? Agricultural Water Management, 233, 106097.
• Hongyan Zhang, Yinqiu Song, Lin Zhang (2020): Pollution Control in Urban China: A Multi-Level Analysis on Household and Industrial Pollution. Science of The Total Environment, 749, 141478.
• Julie Metta, Yao An, Huanhuan Zheng, Lin Zhang (2020): Potentials and Opportunities towards the Low Carbon Technologies – from Literature Review to New Classification. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 50(10), 1013-1042.
• Christos Karydas, Lin Zhang (2019): Green Tax Reform, Endogenous Innovation and the Growth Dividend. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 97, 158-181.
• Massimo Filippini, Lin Zhang (2019): Impacts of Heat Metering and Efficiency Retrofit Policy on Residential Energy Consumption in China. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 21, 203-216.
• Adriana Marcucci, Lin Zhang (2019): Growth impacts of Swiss Climate Policies. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 155:9.
• Yao An, Lin Zhang, Philip Kofi Adom (2019): Economics of Wastewater Management in China's Industry. Environment and Development Economics, 24, 457-478.
• Joonho Yeo, Ye Wang, Alicia Kyoungjin An, Lin Zhang (2019): Estimation of Energy Efficiency for Educational Buildings in Hong Kong. Journal of Cleaner Production, 235, 453-460.
• Bin Hu, Zhengtao Li, and Lin Zhang (2019): Long-Run Dynamics of Sulphur Dioxide Emissions, Economic Growth, and Energy Efficiency in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 227, 942-949.
• Joonho Yeo, Shauhrat S. Chopra, Lin Zhang, Alicia Kyoungjin An (2019): Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Food Waste Treatment in Hong Kong: On-Site Fermentation Methodology. Journal of Environmental Management, 240, 343-351.
• Yanming Sun, Lin Zhang (2019): Full Separation or Full Integration? An Investigation of the Optimal Renewables Policy Employing Tradable Green Certificate Systems in Two Countries' Electricity Markets. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(24), 4937.
• Lin Zhang, Philip Kofi Adomc (2018): Energy Efficiency Transitions in China: How Persistent are the Movements To/From the Frontier? The Energy Journal, 39(6), 147-169.
• Thomas Geissmann, Lin Zhang (2018): Knowledge Economy and Industry Performance in China: A Provincial Level Analysis. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 16 (4), 393-415.
• Lin Zhang, Philip Kofi Adomc, Yao An (2018): Regulation-Induced Structural Break and the Long-Run Drivers of Industrial Pollution Intensity in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, 121-132.
• Lin Zhang, Yao An (2018): The Government Capacity on Industrial Pollution Management in Shanxi Province: A Response Impulse Analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 223, 1037-1046.
• Lucas Bretschger, Filippo Lechthaler, Sebastian Rausch, Lin Zhang (2017): Knowledge Diffusion, Endogenous Growth, and the Costs of Global Climate Policy. European Economic Review, 93, 47-72.
• Lucas Bretschger, Lin Zhang (2017): Carbon Policy in a High-Growth Economy: The Case of China. Resource and Energy Economics, 47, 1-19.
  This is the lead article of the issue
• Lucas Bretschger, Lin Zhang (2017): Nuclear Phase-out under Stringent Climate Policies: A Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis. The Energy Journal, 38(1), 167-194.
• Ruhul Salim, Yao Yao, George Chen, Lin Zhang (2017): Can Foreign Direct Investment Harness Energy Consumption in China? A Time Series Investigation. Energy Economics, 66, 43-53.
• Lin Zhang (2017): Correcting the Uneven Burden Sharing of Emission Reduction Across Provinces in China. Energy Economics, 64, 335-345.
• Lin Zhang (2017): The Knowledge Spillover Effects of FDI on the Productivity and Efficiency of Research Activities in China. China Economic Review, 42, 1-14.
• Vishal Chandr Jaunky, Lin Zhang (2016): Convergence of Operational Efficiency in China's Provincial Power Sectors. The Energy Journal, 37, SI1, 3-27.
• Massimo Filippini, Lin Zhang (2016): Estimation of the Energy Efficiency in Chinese Provinces. Energy Efficiency, 9(6), 1315-1328.
• Lin Zhang (2013): Model Projections and Policy Reviews for Energy Saving in China's Service Sector. Energy Policy, 59, 312-320.

(b) Peer-reviewed articles in Chinese

• 袁文华，王玉婷，周晓雨，张林 (2025): 新型城镇化、乡村振兴与生态文明建设战略导向的县域空间多功能优化，中国人口·资源与环境，2025，35(11), 138-149.
  English title: County spatial multifunctional optimization under the strategic orientations of new urbanization, rural revitalization, and ecological civilization
• 张林，何深静，张鸿雁 (2026): 能源转型中的城乡公平与低碳治理，能源与气候变化，2026， 2(3): 331-332.
  English title: Urban-Rural Equity and Low-Carbon Governance in the Energy Transition
• 张林，李强，李明来，李聪 (2026): 能源脱贫与农村家庭共同富裕，能源与气候变化，2026, 2(3): 333-347.
  English title: Energy Poverty Alleviation and Rural Households' Common Prosperity
• 张林，安瑶，喻筱珺，方琳 (2023): 城市工业环境治理和企业效益：源头预防和末端治理的宏微观影响，管理评论，35(8): 31-42.
  English title: Industrial Environmental Mitigation and Corporate Performance in Cities: Macro and Micro Evidence of Adjustment to Industrial Structure and End-of-Pile Control
• 靳玮，王弟海，张林 (2022): 碳中和背景下的中国经济低碳转型：特征事实与机制分析，经济研究，2022(12), 87-103.
  English title: China's Low-carbon Economic Transitions towards Carbon Neutrality: Characteristics and Mechanisms
  在"经济体制改革"领域排名前1%，在"环境科学与资源利用"领域排名前1%
  Top 1 journal in the field of economics in Chinese Journals, 复合影响因子19.013
• 安瑶，张林 (2018): 环境规制、能源供需结构与工业污染，环境经济研究, 3(4), 128-151.
  English title: Environmental Regulation, Energy Structure Change and Industrial Pollution

(c) Books & Book Chapters

• Book chapter: "Enhancing energy and water use efficiency to reduce carbon footprint" in Carbon Incentives, Plans, and Policies in Agriculture, Elsevier, 2026. ISBN: 9780443335570
• Monograph: "Sustainability Economics", Nature Springer, 2025. ISBN: 978-3-031-87828-2
• 著作：〔瑞士〕卢卡斯·布雷斯彻　著 /张林 等 译：绿化经济与构建可持续社会———向可持续发展转型的挑战与应变。北京大学出版社，ISBN 978-7-301-30395-5.
• Governemnt Report: "Exploring the Limits in Dynamic Energy Modelling: Bottom-up framework, uncertainty, and multi-regional setup using the CITE model approach", Final Report for the Swiss Federal Office Of Energy, Publication 290981, Bern, Switzerland