Yuehua Tang
Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor
(352) 392-9985
Bio
Expertise And Interest Areas
Education All years
- PhD - Finance, Georgia State University, 2013
- MA - Economics, Renmin University of China, 2008
- MA - Economics (with Distinction), University of Antwerp, 2008
- BA - Economics, Nankai University, 2006
News All Articles
- Companies ignoring climate risks get punished by markets, new study reveals — March 29, 2024 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A pioneering study from the University of Florida has quantified corporations' exposure to climate change risks like h...
- Exposing the dual role of mutual funds in connection with investment banks — May 18, 2023 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Institutional investors and investment banks are two key players in today’s financial system. The relationship betwe...
- ChatGPT is better at predicting how stocks will react to news headlines than traditional models, new study shows — April 17, 2023 — ChatGPT can't see the future, but it already has value for investors looking to predict future moves in the stock market. That's according...
- ChatGPT may be able to predict stock movements, finance professors show — April 13, 2023 — In a new working paper, Assistant Professor Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor Yuehua Tang find that large l...
- Mutual funds generate better returns with thematic investing — March 23, 2023 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Risky, trendy, volatile. These are just a few recent descriptions of thematic investing, an emergent investment strate...
Honors and Awards Last 10 years
- BlackRock Best Paper Award The 36th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference — 2023
- AMTD FinTech Centre Prize Asian Finance Association Conference — 2022
- UF Term Professorship University of Florida — 2021
- Emerson-Merrill Lynch Professorship University of Florida — 2020
- Yihong Xia Best Paper Award China International Conference in Finance — 2018
- First Prize Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition — 2017
- Best Paper Award Conference of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality — 2015
- First Prize Chicago Quantitative Alliance CQAsia Academic Competition — 2014
Courses Taught Last 5 years
- Advanced Research (FIN7979)
- Capital Stru Risk Man (FIN5439)
- Fin Res Workshop (FIN7938)
- Financial Management (FIN4414)
- Financial Management (FIN7938)
Journal Article Publications All years
Contact And Other Resources
University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department
Stuzin Hall 317A
(352) 392-9985