Yuehua Tang

Yuehua Tang

  • Scott J. Friedman Professor of AI in Finance
  • Professor & Chair
  • Chair, Eugene F. Brigham Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Eugene F. Brigham Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department
  • PhD – Finance Insurance and Real Estate
  • Fintech Research Center
  • Stuzin Hall 317A
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Dr. Yuehua Tang is a Full Professor and the Scott J. Friedman Professor of AI in Finance, and serves as Chair of the Eugene F. Brigham Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. His research interests include AI in finance, fintech, mutual funds and hedge funds, climate finance, investments, and corporate finance. He has published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Journal of Corporate Finance. He previously served as the Finance Ph.D. Coordinator from January 2020 to August 2026.

His work has received numerous research excellence awards, including the Q-Group Research Award, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Best Paper Awards (three times), the AMTD FinTech Centre Prize, the BlackRock Best Paper Award (AFBC Sydney), the Yihong Xia Best Paper Award, and the GARP Research Excellence Award. He currently serves as a Guest Associate Editor for Management Science (special Issue on AI) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, the Journal of Alternative Investments, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies. His research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg News, Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, and The New York Times. 

Before joining the University of Florida in 2016, he was an Assistant Professor at Singapore Management University for three years. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Fall 2014. Professor Tang received his Ph.D. in Finance from Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business in 2013. 

Expertise and interest areas

  • AI in Finance
  • Climate Finance
  • Corporate Finance
  • FinTech
  • Hedge Funds
  • Investments
  • Mutual Funds

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Courses taught

  • Advanced Research (FIN7979)
  • Corporate Finance (FIN6425)
  • Corporation Finance (FIN6425)
  • Finance II: Capital Structure and Risk Management Issues (FIN5439)
  • Finance Research Workshop (FIN7938)
  • Financial Decision Making (FIN6429)
  • Independent Research (FIN4905)
  • Individual Work in Finance (FIN6905)
  • Research for Doctoral Dissertation (FIN7980)

Education

    • Ph.D, Finance, General., Georgia State University, 2013
    • MA, Economics, General., University of Antwerp, 2008
    • BA, Economics, General., Nankai University of China, 2006

Journal article publications

  • Thematic Concentration And Mutual Fund Performance
    • Journal: Review of Financial Studies
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2026
    • Authors:
  • Surviving The Fintech Disruption
    • Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2025
    • Authors: Wei Jiang, Yuehua Tang, Jiqiu Xiao, Vincent Yao
  • Peer Versus Pure Benchmarks In The Compensation Of Mutual Fund Managers
    • Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Richard B. Evans, Juan-Pedro Gómez, Linlin Ma, Yuehua Tang
  • Nonstandard Errors
    • Journal: The Journal of Finance
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Albert J. Menkveld, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Sebastian Neusüß, Michael Razen, Utz Weitzel, David Abad-Díaz, Menachem Abudy, Tobias Adrian, Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Olivier Akmansoy, Jamie T. Alcock, Vitali Alexeev, Arash Aloosh, Livia Amato, Diego Amaya, James J. Angel, Alejandro T. Avetikian, Amadeus Bach, Edwin Baidoo, Gaetan Bakalli, Li Bao, Andrea Barbon, Oksana Bashchenko, Parampreet C. Bindra, Geir H. Bjønnes, Jeffrey Black, Bernard S. Black, Dimitar Bogoev, Santiago Bohorquez. Correa, Oleg P. Bondarenko, Charles S. Bos, Ciril Bosch-Rosa, Elie Bouri, Christian Brownlees, Anna Calamia, Viet Nga. Cao, Gunther Capelle-Blancard, Laura M. Capera. Romero, Massimiliano Caporin, Allen Carrion, Tolga Caskurlu, Bidisha Chakrabarty, Jian Chen, Mikhail Chernov, William Cheung, Ludwig B. Chincarini, Tarun Chordia, Sheung-Chi Chow, Benjamin Clapham, Jean-Edouard Colliard, Carole Comerton-Forde, Edward Curran, Thong Dao, Wale Dare, Ryan J. Davies, Riccardo De. Blasis, Gianluca F. De. Nard, Fany Declerck, Oleg Deev, Hans Degryse, Solomon Y. Deku, Christophe Desagre, Mathijs A. Van. Dijk, Chukwuma C. Dim, Thomas Dimpfl, Yun Jiang. Dong, Philip A. Drummond, Tom Dudda, Teodor Duevski, Ariadna Dumitrescu, Teodor Dyakov, Anne Haubo. Dyhrberg, Michał Dzieliński, Asli Eksi, Izidin El. Kalak, Saskia Ter. Ellen, Nicolas Eugster, Martin D. D. Evans, Michael Farrell, Ester Felez-Vinas, Gerardo Ferrara, El Mehdi. Ferrouhi, Andrea Flori, Jonathan T. Fluharty-Jaidee, Sean D. V. Foley, Kingsley Y. L. Fong, Thierry Foucault, Tatiana Franus, Francesco Franzoni, Bart Frijns, Michael Frömmel, Servanna M. Fu, Sascha C. Füllbrunn, Baoqing Gan, Ge Gao, Thomas P. Gehrig, Roland Gemayel, Dirk Gerritsen, Javier Gil-Bazo, Dudley Gilder, Lawrence R. Glosten, Thomas Gomez, Arseny Gorbenko, Joachim Grammig, Vincent Grégoire, Ufuk Güçbilmez, Björn Hagströmer, Julien Hambuckers, Erik Hapnes, Jeffrey H. Harris, Lawrence Eugene. Harris, Simon Hartmann, Jean-Baptiste Hasse, Nikolaus Hautsch, Xue-Zhong He, Davidson Heath, Simon Hediger, Terrence Hendershott, Ann Marie. Hibbert, Erik Hjalmarsson, Seth A. Hoelscher, Peter Hoffmann, Craig W. Holden, Alex R. Horenstein, Wenqian Huang, Da Huang, Christophe Hurlin, Konrad Ilczuk, Alexey Ivashchenko, Subramanian Iyer, Hossein Jahanshahloo, Naji Jalkh, Charles M. Jones, Simon Jurkatis, Petri Jylhä, Andreas T. Kaeck, Gabriel Kaiser, Arzé Karam, Egle Karmaziene, Bernhard Kassner, Markku Kaustia, Ekaterina Kazak, Fearghal Kearney, Vincent Van. Kervel, Saad A. Khan, Marta K. Khomyn, Tony Klein, Olga Klein, Alexander Klos, Michael Koetter, Aleksey Kolokolov, Robert A. Korajczyk, Roman Kozhan, Jan P. Krahnen, Paul Kuhle, Amy Kwan, Quentin Lajaunie, F Y. Eric C. Lam, Marie Lambert, Hugues Langlois, Jens Lausen, Tobias Lauter, Markus Leippold, Vladimir Levin, Yijie Li, Hui Li, Chee Yoong. Liew, Thomas Lindner, Oliver Linton, Jiacheng Liu, Anqi Liu, Guillermo Llorente, Matthijs Lof, Ariel Lohr, Francis A. Longstaff, Alejandro Lopez Lira, Shawn Mankad, Nicola Mano, Alexis Marchal, Charles Martineau, Francesco Mazzola, Debrah Meloso, Michael G. Mi, Roxana Mihet, Vijay Mohan, Sophie Moinas, David Moore, Liangyi Mu, Dmitriy Muravyev, Dermot P. Murphy, Gabor Neszveda, Christian Neumeier, Ulf Nielsson, Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Sven Nolte, Lars L. Norden, Peter O'neill, Khaled Obaid, Bernt A. Ødegaard, Per Östberg, Emiliano Pagnotta, Marcus Painter, Stefan Palan, Imon J. Palit, Andreas Park, Roberto Pascual, Paolo Pasquariello, Lubos Pastor, Vinay Patel, Andrew J. Patton, Neil D. Pearson, Loriana Pelizzon, Michele Pelli, Matthias Pelster, Christophe Pérignon, Cameron Pfiffer, Richard Philip, Tomáš Plíhal, Puneet Prakash, Oliver-Alexander Press, Tina Prodromou, Marcel Prokopczuk, Talis Putnins, Ya Qian, Gaurav Raizada, David Rakowski, Angelo Ranaldo, Luca Regis, Stefan Reitz, Thomas Renault, Rex W. Renjie, Roberto Reno, Steven J. Riddiough, Kalle Rinne, Paul Rintamäki, Ryan Riordan, Thomas Rittmannsberger, Iñaki Rodríguez. Longarela, Dominik Maximilian. Roesch, Lavinia Rognone, Brian Roseman, Ioanid Roşu, Saurabh Roy, Nicolas Rudolf, Stephen Rush, Khaladdin Rzayev, Aleksandra A. Rzeźnik, Anthony Sanford, Harikumar Sankaran, Asani Sarkar, Lucio Sarno, Olivier Scaillet, Stefan Scharnowski, Klaus R. Schenk-Hoppé, Andrea Schertler, Michael Schneider, Florian Schroeder, Norman Schürhoff, Philipp Schuster, Marco A. Schwarz, Mark Seasholes, Norman J. Seeger, Or Shachar, Andriy Shkilko, Jessica Shui, Mario Sikic, Giorgia Simion, Lee A. Smales, Paul Söderlind, Elvira Sojli, Konstantin Sokolov, Jantje Sönksen, Laima Spokeviciute, Denitsa Stefanova, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Barnabas Szaszi, Oleksandr Talavera, Yuehua Tang, Nick Taylor, Wing Wah. Tham, Erik Theissen, Julian Thimme, Ian Tonks, Hai Tran, Luca Trapin, Anders B. Trolle, M Andreea. Vaduva, Giorgio Valente, Robert A. Van Ness, Aurelio Vasquez, Thanos Verousis, Patrick Verwijmeren, Anders Vilhelmsson, Grigory Vilkov, Vladimir Vladimirov, Sebastian Vogel, Stefan Voigt, Wolf Wagner, Thomas Walther, Patrick Weiss, Michel Van Der. Wel, Ingrid M. Werner, P Joakim. Westerholm, Christian Westheide, Hans C. Wika, Evert Wipplinger, Michael Wolf, Christian C. P. Wolff, Leonard Wolk, Wing-Keung Wong, Jan Wrampelmeyer, Zhen-Xing Wu, Shuo Xia, Dacheng Xiu, Ke Xu, Caihong Xu, Pradeep K. Yadav, José Yagüe, Cheng Yan, Antti Yang, Woongsun Yoo, Wenjia Yu, Yihe Yu, Shihao Yu, Bart Z. Yueshen, Darya Yuferova, Marcin Zamojski, Abalfazl Zareei, Stefan M. Zeisberger, Lu Zhang, S Sarah. Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Lu Zhao, Zhuo Zhong, Z Ivy. Zhou, Chen Zhou, Xingyu S. Zhu, Marius Zoican, Remco Zwinkels
  • Corporate Climate Risk: Measurements And Responses
    • Journal: Review of Financial Studies
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Qing Li, Hongyu Shan, Yuehua Tang, Vincent Yao
  • Customers As Friendly Shareholders: Uncovering The Complex Mutual Fund-Broker Relationship
    • Journal: Management Science
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Nitish Kumar, Yuehua Tang, Kelsey D. Wei
  • Corporate Climate Risk: Measurement And Responses
    • Journal: Review of Financial Studies, The
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Qing Li, Yuehua Tang, Hongyu Shan, Vincent Yao, Qing Li
  • Artificial Market Timing In Mutual Funds
    • Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2023
    • Authors: Jeffrey Alan. Busse, Jing Ding, Lei Jiang, Yuehua Tang
  • Anti-Pd-1 Immunotherapy Combined With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy And Gm-Csf For The Treatment Of Advanced Malignant Pecoma: A Case Report
    • Journal: Frontiers in Oncology
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2023
    • Authors: Yunfan Wang, Weiling Li, Xin Zuo, Ke Min, Yuehua Tang, Hong Chen, Weimin Wang, Yan Zhou
  • Fund Manager Skill In An Era Of Globalization: Offshore Concentration And Fund Performance
    • Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2022
    • Authors: John Bai, Yuehua Tang, Chi Wan, Hasan Zafer. Yuksel