FIELDS OF INTEREST
Macroeconomics
Economic Growth and Development
Applied Econometrics
Political Economy
Small Business Economics
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Impacts of FDI linkages on the labor productivity of domestic firms: The role of local business environment”, SAGE Open, Vol. 15(3), 2025 (with Nam Vu and Bich Le). [Link]
"How do domestic attributes affect international spillovers of environmental efficiency in Africa?" Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 384, Article 125531, 2025 (with Abdulrasheed Zakari and Rabindra Nepal). [Link]
“Lobbying with non-strategic lobby groups”, SAGE Open, Vol. 15(3), 2025 (with Erkan Yalcin, Thang Bach and Khanh Hoang). [Link]
"Improving stress detection with synthetic datasets: GPT-40-Mini and transformer model evaluation" in Nguyen, N. T. et al. (Eds.), Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15683, Springer, 2025 (with Nabeel Badran, John Le and Takahiro Uchiya). [Link]
"Credit constraints and corporate tax payments: Evidence from Vietnamese firms", Economic Systems, Vol. 49(3), Article 101305, 2025 (with Thang Bach, Bao Luong, and Huong Vu). [Link]
"Biodiversity risk and firm performance: Evidence from US firms", Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 34(1), pp. 1113-1132, 2025 (with Thang Bach and Khanh Hoang). [Link]
"Trade credit, labor employment, and demand for skills: An empirical investigation of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises", Review of Development Economics, Vol. 29(2), 721-746, 2025 (with Thang Bach). [Link]
"Money in politics: How does it affect election outcomes?", SAGE Open, Vol. 14(4), October - December, 2024 (with Ilke Onur, Rubayat Sarwar and Erkan Yalcin). [Link]
"The mediating role of corporate borrowings in the nexus between financial inclusion and performance of ICT firms: new insights from Vietnam", Applied Economics, Vol. 57(30), 4379-4393, 2024 (with Mai Vu, Thuong Tran, Dan Thai and Linh Phuong). [Link]
"Sperner's lemma and competitive equilibrium with incomplete financial markets", Economics Letters, Vol. 238, Article 111720, 2024 (with Cuong Le Van, Ngoc-Sang Pham and Cagri Saglam). [Link]
“Robot revolution and human capital accumulation: implications for growth and factor income shares”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 34, pp. 89-126, 2024 (with Huong Nguyen and Mai Vu). [Link]
"Energy security dimensions and economic growth in non-OECD Asia: an analysis on the role of institutional quality and energy policy implications”, Energy Policy, Vol. 188, Article 114090, 2024 (with Tayyab Ayaz, Tina Prodromou and Rabindra Nepal). [Link]
“Monetary policy transmission in Sri Lanka”, Applied Economics, Vol. 56(2), pp. 151-168, 2024 (with Muhammadu Theseem Musthafa and Sandy Suardi). [Link]
"Frontier academic research in OECD countries: The role of institutional factors", Journal of Institutional Economics, Vol. 19, pp. 526-547, 2023 (with Ngoc Vu and Sau Mai). [Link]
“Lobbying, political competition and the welfare effect of campaign contribution tax”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 70(2), pp. 158-179, 2023 (with Erkan Yalcin). [Link]
"Endogenous expropriation and political competition", Economics & Politics, Vol. 35(1), pp. 313-332, 2023 (with Erkan Yalcin). [Link]
Factors affecting the adoption of the balanced scorecard by small and medium sized enterprises: A developing country perspective, Ethics International Press Ltd, the United Kingdom, 2023 (with Dieu Thuong Ha and Greg Fisher). [Link]
“Gender discrimination, social networks and access to informal finance of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises”, Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 78, pp. 358-372, 2023 (with Thang Bach, Thang Nguyen and Khanh Hoang). [Link]
“Financial development and international R&D spillovers through trade: evidence from developing countries”, SAGE Open, Vol. 13(1), pp. 1-12, 2023 (with Ngoc Vu, Sau Mai, Hung Bui and Ha Nguyen). [Link]
“Impacts of wholesale electricity price under varying carbon price levels on carbon emissions and economic output in Australia” in F. Taghizadeh-Hesary and D. Zhang (Eds.), Handbook of Energy Policy, Springer, pp. 1-27, 2023 (with Rabindra Nepal, Rohan Best, Amir Arjomandi, and Nirash Paija). [Link]
"A Direct Proof of the Gale–Nikaido–Debreu Lemma Using Sperner’s Lemma", Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 194, pp. 1072-1080, 2022 (with Cuong Le Van, Ngoc Sang Pham and Cagri Saglam). [Link]
"Out of sight but not out of mind: on the North-South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus", Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 47(11), pp. 2224-2238, 2022. [Link]
“Frontier academic research, industrial R&D, and technological progress: the case of OECD countries”, Technovation, Vol. 114, Article No. 102436, 2022 (with Hanh Pham, Mai Sau and Ngoc Vu). [Link]
“Adoption of performance measurement approach in small and medium sized enterprises: an empirical analysis of balanced scorecard in Vietnamese firms”, Accounting Research Journal, Vol. 35(4), pp. 543-560, 2022 (with Thuong Ha, Greg Fisher and Truc Nguyen). [Link]
“Sub-national union coverage and the youth’s labor market outcomes: Evidence from a national survey in Vietnam”, Journal of Economics and Development, Vol. 24(2), pp. 112-126, 2022 (with Thang Bach, Hung Ly Dai and Viet Hung Nguyen). [Link]
"How credit constraints affect small and medium enterprises' strategic employment decisions and employees' labor outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam", The Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Vol. 29(2), pp. 319-341, 2021 (with Thang Bach and Charles Harvie). [Link]
“Informal short-term borrowings and firms’ performance in a credit crunch: evidence from Vietnam”, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 57(8), pp. 1321-1335, 2021 (with Thang Bach and Yen Bui). [Link]
"Monetary policy and bank liquidity creation: Does bank size matter?", International Economic Journal, Vol. 35(2), pp. 205-222, 2021 (with Hanh Pham and Loan Nguyen). [Link]
“Remittances, oil trade balance and income: empirical evidence from 55 developing countries”, Asia Pacific Social Science Review, Vol. 21(1), pp. 139-155, 2021 (with Poon Wai Ching). [Link]
“Free trade agreements and international R&D spillovers”, Future Growth Studies, Vol. 5, pp. 93-111, 2019 (with Juyoung Cheong).
"Lobbying, campaign contribution, and electoral competition", European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 55, pp. 559-572, 2018 (with Erkan Yalcin). [Link]
"Research and development and sustainable growth over alternative types of natural resources", Economic Modelling, Vol. 70, pp. 215-229, 2018 (with Cuong Le Van). [Link]
"Local governance, corruption, and public service quality: evidence from a national survey in Vietnam", International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 30(2), pp. 137-153, 2017 (with Thang Nguyen, Thang Bach and Canh Le). [Link]
"Transitional dynamics in an R&D-based growth model with natural resources", Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 82, pp. 1-17, 2016 (with Cuong Le Van). [Link]
“World top university rankings: from distribution to implications on national knowledge creation and competitiveness” in D. Archibugi and A. Filippetti (Eds.), The Handbook of Global Science, Technology and Innovation, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 46-68, 2015 (with Kam Ki Tang).
“The international race of top supercomputers and its implications” in D. Archibugi and A. Filippetti (Eds.), The Handbook of Global Science, Technology and Innovation, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 69-87, 2015 (with Kam Ki Tang).
"Impacts of academic R&D on high-tech manufacturing products: tentative evidence from supercomputer data", Studies in Higher Education, Vol. 40(6), pp. 957-971, 2015 (with Kam Ki Tang).
“Assessing the roles that absorptive capacity and economic distance play in the foreign direct investment-productivity growth nexus”, Applied Economics, Vol. 45(8), pp. 1027-1039, 2013 (with Phil Bodman).
“Public investment, taxation, and long-run output in economies with multi-level governments”, Economic Modelling, Vol. 29, pp. 1603-1611, 2012 (with Phil Bodman and Harry Campbell).
“R&D spillovers through student flows, institutions, and economic growth: What can we learn from African countries?”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 59(1), pp. 115-130, 2012.
“Remittances for economic development: the investment perspective”, Economic Modelling, Vol. 28(6), pp. 2409-2415, 2011.
“Remittances or technological diffusion: which drives domestic gains from brain drain?”, Applied Economics, Vol. 43(18), pp. 2277-2285, 2011 (with Phil Bodman).
“Do government policies affect growth? Examining a model with R&D and factor accumulation”, Research in Economics, Vol. 65(1), pp. 62-70, 2011.
“Are student flows a significant channel of R&D spillovers from the North to the South?”, Economics Letters, Vol. 107, pp. 315-317, 2010 .
“Trade, remittances, institutions, and economic growth”, International Economic Journal, Vol. 23(3), pp.391-408, 2009 .
“Brain drain or brain circulation: evidence from OECD’s international migration and R&D spillovers”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 55(5), pp. 618-636, 2008.
“A dual economy model of endogenous growth with R&D and market structure”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 18(3-4), pp. 349-366, 2008. Reprinted in U. Cantner, J.L. Gaffard, and L. Nesta (Eds.), Schumpeterian perspectives on innovation, competition and growth, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 97-114.
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
“Frontier academic R&D in the North and the effect on technological progress in the South” (with Hanh Pham, Ngoc Vu and Sau Mai).
“Endogenous expropriation with non-strategic lobbying” (with Erkan Yalcin).
“Trade and optimal R&D policy” (with Cuong Le Van).
“Examining the kidnapping game: an experimental study” (with Ines Anton-Mendez, Adrian W.K. Cheung and Erkan Yalcin).
ACADEMIC JOURNAL REFEREEING
Journal of Economic Growth, Review of Economic Dynamics, Energy Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Economic Modelling, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Economic Record, Economics Letters, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Applied Economics, World Development, Studies in Higher Education.