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
  • 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)
  • Individual Work in Finance (FIN6905)
  • Research for Doctoral Dissertation (FIN7980)

Education

    • Ph.D, Finance, General., Georgia State University, 2012
    • MA, Economics, General., Renmin University of China, 2007
    • BA, Economics, General., Nankai University of China, 2005

Journal article publications

  • 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, Remco Zwinkels, Yuehua Tang, Stephen Rush, Paolo Pasquariello, Mark Seasholes, Dermot P. Murphy, Oleg P. Bondarenko, Michael Farrell, Marcus Painter, Mikhail Chernov, Konstantin Sokolov, Robert A. Van Ness, Ingrid M. Werner, Allen Carrion, Jose Alejandro. Lopez Lira Y Ramirez, Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Andrew J. Patton, Edwin Baidoo, Lawrence Eugene. Harris, Pradeep K. Yadav, Davidson Heath, Neil D. Pearson, Terrence Hendershott, Tarun Chordia, Dmitriy Muravyev, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Ann Marie. Hibbert, Subramanian Iyer, Lawrence R. Glosten, Francis A. Longstaff, Shawn Mankad, Bidisha Chakrabarty, Lubos Pastor, Woongsun Yoo, Dacheng Xiu, Chukwuma C. Dim, Dominik Roesch, Alex Horenstein, Jeffrey H. Harris, Jeffrey Black, Brian Roseman, David Rakowski, Da Huang, Robert A. Korajczyk, James J. Angel, Andriy Shkilko, Anne Haubo. Dyhrberg
  • 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