Dr. Yong Tan
Associate Professor
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- School of ManagementFaculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
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Biography
Yong is Associate Professor in Economics and Finance at the University of Bradford. Previously, he worked as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield. Yong received his PhD in Economics from the University of Portsmouth. Besides his degrees in BA(Hons), MSc as well as PhD, he also received Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from the University of Huddersfield. He is the fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Yong's research areas mainly focus on financial economics and production economics. He has published his research in a number of high influential academic journals including Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money; Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting; International Journal of Finance and Economics; Journal of the Operational Research Society; Annals of Operations Research; European Journal of Operational Research; International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Journal of Environmental Management, among others.
Yong's sole authored paper entitled "The impact risk and competition on bank profitability in China" was one of the most downloaded articles in the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. Yong's research is widely recognized internationally, he has been featured in the list of the Top 2% scientists in the world published by Stanford University. Yong is also ranked as one of the top 0.5% scholars worldwide by ScholarsGPS.
Research
Banking; Production Economics; Performance evaluation
Teaching
Yong's teaching interests span across comprehensive areas in Economics and Finance such as Microeconomics, Business Economics, International Economics, Financial Services and Financial Markets, among others.
Publications
Book (3)
Efficiency and Competition in Chinese Banking
Yong Tan (2016) Elsevier.
Investigating the Performance of Chinese Banks: Efficiency and Risk Features
Yong Tan (2016) Palgrave Macmillan.
Performance, Risk and Competition in the Chinese Banking Industry
Yong Tan (2014) Elsevier.
Peer reviewed journal (40)
Portfolio Optimization with Minimum Assets and Dividend Yield Constraints
Guilherme Pires;Peter Wanke;Jorge Antunes;Yong Tan;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes (2026) Annals of Operations Research.
The Black-Box of ESG Scores from Rating Agencies: Do They Genuinely Reflect Sustainability Practices, or Are They Disproportionately Shaped by Financial Performance?
Philipe Balan;Jorge Antunes;Peter Wanke;Yong Tan;Ali Meftah Gerged (2025) International Journal of Finance and Economics.
Bayesian DEA Framework for Market Power and Efficiency Analysis in Banking Operations
Hirofumi Fukuyama;Mike Tsionas;Yong Tan (2025) OR SPECTRUM.
Do AI Markets Drive Financial Performance in Chinese Banks? A Quantum-Inspired (QI) MCDM Approach
Peter Wanke;Yong Tan;Christos Floros (2025) Information Systems Frontiers.
On decomposing the energy rebound effect
Yong Tan;Barnabe Walheer (2025) Energy Economics.
Climate Risk Assessment at Chinese Provinces: A Novel Criteria and Context Decomposition for Trade-Off Weighting (CCDTW) Approach
Peter Wanke;Yong Tan (2025) Journal of Environmental Management.
The Diverging Impact of Climate Policy Intensity and Climate Adaptation Readiness on U.S. Bank Performance and Risk
Konstantinos Michail Kapetanakis;Christos Floros;Yong Tan (2025) Journal of Environmental Management.
Environmental Impacts and Energy Transition in Chinese Logistics: An N-Spheres Multi-Criteria Decision-Making
Yong Tan;Zhongfei Chen;Jorge Antunes;Peter Wanke (2025) Energy Economics.
Strategic Pathways for Socio-Economic Development of BRICS Countries: A Hybrid COPRAS-TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Analysis with Gradient Vector Fields
Peter Wanke;Yong Tan;Tomas Baležentis (2025) Annals of Operations Research.
Decarbonisation in Supply Chain Management with Blockchain Technology: Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in Industry 4.0
Amir Karbassi Yazdi;Gizem Özaydin;Yong Tan;Alessio Ishizaka;Jing Li (2025) Annals of Operations Research.
Unveiling the Impact of Information Vagueness on Carbon Emission Inventories using Fuzzy Sets
José Antônio Puppim de Oliveira;Peter Wanke;Jorge Antunes;Yong Tan (2025) Energy Economics.
Time-varying impacts of green credit on carbon productivity in China: New evidence from a non-parametric panel data model
(2024) Journal of Environmental Management.
Cost-Benefit Analysis in UK Hotels: A Hybrid SOCP-MCDM Approach
Yong Tan;Sangwon Park;Antônio Mamede Araújo de Medeiros;Peter Wanke (2024) Tourism Management.
Cross-efficiency analysis of energy sector using stochastic DEA: Considering pollutant emissions
(2024) Journal of Environmental Management.
The impact of Chinese airport infrastructure on airline pollutant emissions: A hybrid stochastic-neural network approach based on utility functions
Qiang Cui, Jorge Antunes, Peter Wanke, Yong Tan, David Roubaud, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour (2024) Journal of Environmental Management.
The proposal and application of a 2-Dimensional Fuzzy Monte Carlo Frontier analysis for estimating Islamic bank efficiency
Yong Tan;Md Abul Kalam Azad;Antônio Mamede;Peter Fernandes Wanke (2024) Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.
Green missing spots: Information entropy on greenhouse gas emission disclosure by Brazilian companies
Loise Baginski;Marconi Viana;Peter Wanke;jorge moreira Antunes;Yong Tan;Charbel Jabbour;David Roubaud (2024) Journal of Environmental Management.
The impacts of innovation and trade openness on bank market power: the proposal of a minimum distance cost function approach and a causal structure analysis
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Mike Tsionas, Yong Tan (2023) European Journal of Operational Research.
Incorporating Causal Modeling into Data Envelopment Analysis for Performance Evaluation
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Mike Tsionas, Yong Tan (2023) Annals of Operations Research.
Market Structure, ESG Performance and Corporate Efficiency: Insights from Brazilian Publicly Traded Companies
Pedro Moskovics; Peter Fernandes Wanke; Yong Tan; Ali Gerged (2023) Business Strategy and the Environment.
A New Perspective on the U.S. Energy Efficiency: The Political Context
Jorge Antunes, Juliana Neves, Larissa Elmor, Michel Araujo, Peter Wanke and Yong Tan (2022) Technological Forecasting and Social Change. N/A
Implementing strategic disposability for performance evaluation: Innovation, stability, profitability and corporate social responsibility in Chinese banking
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan (2022) European Journal of Operational Research. 296
Green light for green credit? Evidence from its impact on bank efficiency
Jorge Galan, Yong Tan (2022) International Journal of Finance and Economics. N/A
Deconstructing three-stage overall efficiency into input, output and stability efficiency components with consideration of market power and loan loss provision: An application to Chinese banks
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan (2022) International Journal of Finance and Economics. 27
Demographic Efficiency Drivers in the Chinese Energy Production Chain: A Hybrid Neural Multi-Activity Network Data Envelopment Analysis
Yue Zhao; Jorge Antunes; Yong Tan; Peter Wanke (2022) International Journal of Finance and Economics.
Dynamic network data envelopment analysis with a sequential structure and behavioural-causal analysis: Application to the Chinese banking industry
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Mike Tsionas and Yong Tan (2022) European Journal of Operational Research. N/A
Estimating market power under a nonparametric analysis: evidence from the Chinese real estate sector
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan (2022) OR SPECTRUM. N/A
TEA-IS: A Hybrid DEA-TOPSIS Approach for Assessing Performance and Synergy in Chinese Health Care
Jorge Antunes, Abdollah Hadi-Vencheh, Ali Jamshidi, Yong Tan, and Peter Wanke (2022) Decision Support Systems.
Investigating into the dual role of loan loss reserves in banking production process
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan (2021) Annals of Operations Research. N/A
Intellectual capital performance in the financial sector: Evidence from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Muhammad Imran Nazir, Yong Tan, Muhammad Rizwan Nazir (2021) International Journal of Finance and Economics. 26
Unveiling endogeneity between competition and efficiency in Chinese banks: a two-stage network DEA and regression analysis
Yong Tan, Peter Wanke, Jorge Antunes, Ali Emrouznejad (2021) Annals of Operations Research. N/A
Bank efficiency estimation in China: DEA-RENNA approach
Jorge Antunes, Abdollah Hadi-Vencheh, Ali Jamshidi, Yong Tan, Peter Wanke (2021) Annals of Operations Research. N/A
Investigation of efficiency in the UK hotel industry: a network data envelopment analysis approach
Yong Tan, Dimitris Despotis (2021) International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. 33
Unveiling endogeneity and temporal dependence in energy prices and demand in Iberian countries: a stochastic hidden Markov model approach
Jorge Antunes, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana, Rossana Riccardi, Yong Tan, Peter Wanke (2021) Annals of Operations Research. N/A
Corporate social behaviour: Is it good for efficiency in the Chinese banking industry?
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan (2021) Annals of Operations Research. 306
Financial innovation and economic growth: Empirical evidence from China, India and Pakistan
Muhammad Rizwan Nazir, Yong Tan, Muhammad Imran Nazir (2021) International Journal of Finance and Economics. 26
Modelling sustainability efficiency in banking
Yong Tan, Mike Tsionas (2020) International Journal of Finance and Economics. N/A
A new way to estimate market power in banking
Hirofumi Fukuyama, Yong Tan (2020) Journal of the Operational Research Society. N/A
The impacts of risk and competition on bank profitability in China
Yong Tan (2016) Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 40
Risk, capital and efficiency in Chinese banking
Yong Tan, Christos Floros (2013) Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 26