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| Award year | Principal Investigator | Scheme | Project Title |
| 2026/27 | DAI Min | RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme | Multi Dimensional Free Boundary Problems in Finance: Theory and Algorithms |
| 2026/27 | Gavin Feng | HKIMR Open-bid Applied Research Programme Award | An LLM-Derived Framework for Bilingual Information Asymmetry and Liquidity Spillovers in Hong Kong |
| 2026/27 | Gavin Feng, Liyuan Cui | INQUIRE Europe Research Grant Award | Breaks and Trends in Factor Premia |
| 2026/27 | HAN Xu | GRF | Factor-Augmented Lasso Model Averaging (FALMA) in High-Dimensional Factor Models: Theory and Application |
| 2026/27 | HSHIEH Shenje | GRF | Strategic Licensing and Market Power in Intangible Capital Markets |
| 2026/27 | LI Weikai | Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) Open-bid Applied Research Programme | Deepseeking Investment Value through Analyst Reports |
| 2026/27 | LI Yingxiang | ECS | The Impact of Patient Investors: Evidence from Venture Capital |
| 2026/27 | LI Yunan | GRF | Delayed Information Acquisition |
| 2026/27 | XIA Shixiang | ECS | The Real Efficiency of Passive Investing |
| 2026/27 | ZHOU Jin | GRF | New Era of Quantifying Dynamic Complementarity |
| 2025/26 | DAI Min | GRF | Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning for Singular Control in Portfolio Optimization |
| 2025/26 | HAN Xu | GRF | Factor-Based Forecasting for High-Dimensional Models with Structural Breaks |
| 2025/26 | HU Audrey Xianhua | GRF | Discrete-Time Strategic Experimentation |
| 2025/26 | HU Guanliang | GRF | Comovement of Global Stock Market: The Role of Production and Fund Flow Networks in the Propagation of U.S. Monetary Policy |
| 2025/26 | LIU Jinge | GRF | Security Design Under Alternating Bargaining Power |
| 2025/26 | YANG Yilin David | ECS | Big Data With Agents Using Statistical Inferences: Implications for Dynamic Equilibrium Asset Returns |
| 2025/26 | Yaxuan QI | NSFC | The Impact Of Global Geopolitical Risks on Firms' International Supply Chains and Technological Collaboration |
| 2025/26 | ZHOU Jin | GRF | Understanding Early Childhood Learning through the Urban Early Childhood Intervention in China |
| 2024/25 | DAI Min | GRF | A Principal-Agent Approach to Pricing Variable Annuities with Guaranteed Minimum Benefits |
| 2024/25 | Gavin Feng | GRF | Time-Varying Coefficient Modeling for Factor Selection in Asset Pricing |
| 2024/25 | HAN Xu | GRF | High-Dimensional Factor Models with An Incomplete Set of Covariates: An Improved Estimator for Factor Analysis |
| 2024/25 | HU Audrey Xianhua | GRF | Power Prospects: A New Look at Bureaucratic Corruptions |
| 2024/25 | HUANG Qianqian | GRF | The Clash between "E" and "S": Evidence from Chinese firms |
| 2024/25 | MA Yue | GRF | To Follow or not to Follow? An Analysis of Competitive Peer Pressure, Information Free-Riding Incentives, and Cross-Listing Strategic Decisions |
| 2024/25 | ZHOU Jin | ECS | Measuring Skills and Understanding the Mechanism for Boosting Skill Development through Early Childhood Intervention |
| 2024/25 | ZHOU Ying | GRF | Consumer Search over the Product Life Cycle: Evidence and Implications |
| 2023/24 | DAI Min | GRF | Closed-Loop Equilibria in Option Exercise Games with Singular Controls |
| 2023/24 | HAN Xu | GRF | Estimation and Testing of Structural Changes in Possibly Misspecified High-Dimensional Factor Models: A Singularity Approach |
| 2023/24 | HU Audrey Xianhua | GRF | Post Pandemic Social Division and Conflict: Theory and Experiments |
| 2023/24 | HU Guanliang | ECS | Impact of China-U.S. Trade Tensions on China's Exports and Employment |
| 2023/24 | LI Weikai | Ministry of Education (MOE) AcRF Tier 3 Grant Type C (MOET32022-0006) | Climate Transformation Programme |
| 2023/24 | LI Weikai | Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) Regular Research Programme | The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Performance: Worldwide Evidence |
| 2023/24 | LI Weikai | ASEAN Business Research Initiative (LKCSB-CKGSB) Research Grant | Carbon Pricing and Firm Performance: Global Evidence |
| 2023/24 | LI Weikai | Institute for Quantitative Investment (INQUIRE Europe) Research Grant | The Effect of Carbon Pricing on Firm Performance: Worldwide Evidence |
| 2023/24 | LIU Jinge | ECS | Bringing Context to Financial Content Analysis |
| 2023/24 | LIU Qing | ECS | Designing Incentives for Teams |
| 2023/24 | QI Yaxuan | GRF | Does Automation Make the Workplace Safer? |
| 2023/24 | QIU Zhesheng | GRF | Fighting the Inflation Caused by Foreign Price Shocks |
| 2023/24 | WU Di | GRF | A new measure of crisis risk and its pricing in the time series and cross-section of stock returns |
| 2023/24 | WU Xueping | GRF | A Comprehensive Analysis of the Externalities of Corporate Political Connections: Evidence from Close Elections |
| 2023/24 | SUN Stephen Teng | GRF | Product Market Implications of Corporate Accounting Fraud: Evidence from Scanner Data |
| 2023/24 | ZHOU Ying | ECS | Workforce Aging and Structural Shift |
| 2022/23 | DU Jintao | GRF | The Portfolio Choice of Mutual Funds |
| 2022/23 | Gavin Feng | GRF | Textual Analysis of Corporate Bond Market |
| 2022/23 | Gavin Feng | NSFC Youth Science Fund | Capital Market Opening and Risk Management: Evidence from Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect (2023–2025) |
| 2022/23 | Gavin Feng | HKIMR Open-bid Applied Research Programme Award | Price Impact on Hong Kong Stock Market through Stock Connect |
| 2022/23 | Gavin Feng, Jingyu He | INQUIRE Europe Research Grant Award | Growing the Efficient Frontier on Panel Trees |
| 2022/23 | HAN Xu | GRF | Path-dependent preferences and polarized public response to pandemic |
| 2022/23 | HSHIEH Shenje | GRF | Startup Survival on Digital Platforms: An Examination of Amazon's Influence over E-Commerce Entrepreneurs |
| 2022/23 | HUANG Hanwei | GRF | Trade costs and E-commerce in China: the Role of Logistics Firms |
| 2022/23 | LI Yunan | GRF | On dynamic contracts without transfers |
| 2022/23 | LIU Will Shuo | GRF | Climate Risk Management of U.S. P&C Insurers |
| 2022/23 | LUO Ding | GRF | Investment Shocks, Unemployment, and Asset Prices |
| 2022/23 | O'DONOVAN James Patrick | GRF | Can variable annuity hedging explain the excess implied volatility puzzle? |
| 2022/23 | QI Yaxuan | GRF | Political Relations and Global Supply Chains |
| 2022/23 | SUN Stephen Teng | GRF | Auditor Labor Market Mobility Constraints and Audit Outcomes: Evidence from Enforceability of Non-Compete Covenants |
| 2022/23 | XU Wenji | GRF | Optimal Two-Sided Information Provision by Market Intermediaries and its Consequences |
| 2022/23 | ZHANG Lei | GRF | Political Partisanship, Mutual Fund Voting, and Corporate Governance |
| 2021/22 | DU Jintao | ECS | Does Money Really Talk: Heterogeneous Beliefs, Endogenous Wealth Distribution and Asset Pricing |
| 2021/22 | HAN Xu | GRF | Shrinkage Estimation, Model Selection and Uniform Inference in Possibly Nonstationary SVARs with External Instruments |
| 2021/22 | HSHIEH Shenje | GRF | Long-Term R&D Impact of Human Capital Investments: An Examination of the Pharmaceutical Industry |
| 2021/22 | HUANG Hanwei | GRF | Trade, Migration, and Pandemics: the Effect of COVID-19 Containment Policies |
| 2021/22 | Kalok CHAN | RIF | Market Microstructure of Hong Kong Securities Market – Strengthening Market Quality and Price Stability |
| 2021/22 | LI Weikai | Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) Open-bid Applied Research Programme | Lead Market Maker-Level Comovement in ETF Premium |
| 2021/22 | LI Weikai | ASEAN Business Research Initiative (LKCSB-CKGSB) Research Grant | Do Investors Extrapolate Earnings Growth? Evidence from China |
| 2021/22 | LI Yunan | GRF | The optimal selling mechanism in the takeover market |
| 2021/22 | LIU Will Shuo | ECS | Borrower Flexibility vs. Lender Protection: The Shadow Price of "Covenant-light" |
| 2021/22 | ROY Nilanjan | GRF | Dynamic Interactions, Information Transmission, and Asset Prices: Experiments |
| 2021/22 | WU Di | GRF | Inferring Expectation of Return in the Crash State with Option Data |
| 2021/22 | XU Wenji | ECS | Social Learning, Misperception, and Imperfect Information |
| 2021/22 | XU Zhengyang | ECS | Learning from Experience in the Foreign Exchange Market |
| Notes: Funding Scheme | |||
| GRF | General Research Fund | ||
| ECS | Early Career Scheme | ||
| NSFC | National Natural Science Foundation of China | ||
| NSSFC | National Social Science Fund of China | ||
| RFS | RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RGC Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow Scheme, RGC Junior Research Fellow Scheme, Overseas Research Fellowship Scheme, Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme) | ||
| CRF | Collaborative Research Fund | ||
| TRS | Theme-based Research Scheme | ||
| AoE | Areas of Excellence Scheme | ||
| RIF | Research Impact Fund | ||
| STG | Strategic Topics Grant | ||
| ITF | Innovation and Technology Fund | ||

