Anthony Yap | Lecturer in Fintech and Machine Learning
Anthony Yap holds a PhD in Economics, an MSc in Finance (Economic Policy), an MA in Economics and International Business, and a BA (Hons) in Accounting. He is also a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Prior to entering academia, he accumulated over a decade of professional banking experience, specializing in the development, management, and marketing of consumer credit products across various multinational banks, including Citibank, HSBC, and OCBC.
Before joining the University of Reading Malaysia, Anthony was affiliated with Universiti Tun Abdul Razak for six years, holding the position of Assistant Professor and Program Director for the Bachelor of Economics program. As a flexible academician, he has experience teaching various modules in economics, econometrics, finance, data science, and machine learning. His research focuses on productivity and efficiency, banking, financial economics, and institutional economics. He has published extensively (mainly as first author) in various SSCI- and Scopus-indexed journals, including but not limited to Resources Policy, Politická Ekonomie, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, and others.
He was also awarded the Dr. Muzafar Shah Habibullah Academic Excellence Award (2019/2020) for the best thesis in the field of economics by Universiti Putra Malaysia, and the High Impact Publication Award (2024) by Universiti Tun Abdul Razak.
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Telephone |
+607 268 6200 |
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Web profile |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/woon-kan-anthony-yap-phd-frm-57351a86/ |
| Speciality areas | Financial Economics Financial Risk Management Machine Learning and Econometric models |
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Highest qualification and awarding body |
PhD in Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia |
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UoRM programmes taught/supervised |
Fintech and Cryptocurrency Programming for Finance Machine Learning in Finance |
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Research interests |
Productivity and Efficiency Analysis Institutional Economics Environmental Economics Complementarity between Machine Learning and Econometric models. |
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Recent publications |
Yap, W. K., Anuar, N. L. M., & Choong, Y. C. (2025). The blessing and curse of natural resource dependence: A stochastic frontier analysis on productivity, resource rent, governance and sustainability. Resources Policy, 108, 105695. (SSCI / Scopus – indexed) Yap, W. K., Roslan, F., Gryzelius, J., & Mohammad Irman, D. E. (2024). Costless CO2 emissions abatement through improved government effectiveness. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 1-21. (SSCI / Scopus – indexed) Yap, W. K., Kamarudin, F., & Gryzelius, J. (2024). External debt, state ownership and technical efficiency: A stochastic frontier analysis of emerging economies. Portuguese Economic Journal, 1-28. (SSCI / Scopus – indexed) Yap, W. K, Gryzelius, J., Tek Wei Saw, A. (2023). Searching for growth-conducive institutions in emerging economies: A stochastic frontier analysis. Politická ekonomie, 7 (5), 591–618 (SSCI / Scopus – indexed) Saw, A., Ooi, A.Y., Yap, W.K., Zurina, P. and Syahrul, N.S., 2022. Bank Ownership and Non-Performing Loans of Islamic and Conventional Banks in An Emerging Economy. International Journal of Economics and Management, 16(3), pp. 339-349. (Scopus – indexed) Yap, W.K., Law, S.H. and Ghani, J.A., 2020. Effects of Economic Freedom on Bank Profit Beta-Convergence in the ASEAN-5 Banking Sectors. Journal of Economic Integration, 35(3), pp. 479-502. (ESCI / Scopus – indexed) Yap, W.K., Law, S.H. and Ghani, J.A., 2019. Effects of Credit Market Freedom on output reallocation in China’s banking sector through the intermediation of cost X-inefficiency. Annals of Economics and Finance, 20(2), pp. 691-720. (SSCI / Scopus – indexed) Yap, W.K. and Sufian, F., 2018. Banks’ profit efficiency under China economic structure rebalancing: Empirical evidence using index of economic freedom. The Chinese Economy, Routledge, 51(1), pp20-44. (Scopus indexed). Yap, W.K., Law, S.H. and Naseem, N.A.M., 2018. Effects of Credit Market Freedom on the convergence of Chinese banks’ Profits. Global Economic Review, 47(2), pp.224-244. (SSCI / Scopus – indexed) |
