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Dr. Yong Tan

Associate Professor

Area
School of Management
Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
E-mail
y.tan9@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274235251
Dr. Yong Tan

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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.