Employment
2017-present: Senior Lecturer
2008-2017: Lecturer
Department of Economics, Deakin Graduate Business School Deakin University
Office: Ib5. 301, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood Melbourne, 3125, Victoria, Australia
E-mail: cpham@deakin.edu.au; Tel: 0392446611 (Office)
Google scholar webpage: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=PzuTMqMAAAAJ&hl=en .
Education
July 2005: Ph.D. in Economics, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York, United States.
Ph.D. Thesis: Three Essays on the Mobility and Determinants of Trade Patterns
Co-Advisors: Professor Mary E. Lovely and Professor Devashish Mitra.
Primary field: International Trade.
Secondary fields: Economic Development, Public Finance, health economics and Applied Econometrics.
July 1997: M.A. in International Relations, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
M.A. Thesis (in French): China-Vietnam Relations (Les Relations entre le Vietnam and La Chine).
Supervisor: Professor Gérard Hérvouet.
September 1989-September 1990: Russian language as a second foreign language, Stavropol State Pedagogical University, Stavropol, Russia.
August 1989: B.A. in International Relations, Institute for International Relations (currently Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), Hanoi, Vietnam. First foreign language: French. Second foreign language: Russian.
Research Interests
International trade; the political economy of trade policy; the gravity model estimation; the relationship between trade liberalization and poverty; trade in agricultural goods; determinants of product specialization; relationship between terrorism and world trade in merchandise and services; effects of terrorism on air passenger flows; relationship between terrorism, armed conflicts and global arms trade and company arms sales; protection against risks in bilateral trade in freight insurance; determinants of military spending; role of network in international trades; China and its impact on international trade in high-tech products; the ongoing US-China Trade War; China's retaliatory tariffs and the US agricultural exports; the ongoing chip war, a comprehensive empirical evaluation of performance of major agricultural exporters in exports; the COVID-19 Pandemic and its causes; the COVID-19 vaccination and its effects, trade in freight insurance services and its determinants; the US farm subsidies and their impact on the US state agricultural exports; Asian economies such as China, Japan, South Korea, India, ASEAN and Vietnam.
Previous Employment
1991-1994: Lecturer in International Economics, Department of International Economics, Institute for International Relations (currently Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), Hanoi Vietnam.
1997-1999: Researcher and Lecturer in Economics, Department of International Economics, Institute for International Relations (currently Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), Hanoi, Vietnam.
March 2005-March 2008: Consultant, Development Research Group, the World Bank, Washington D.C.
2008-2016: Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics. Deakin University.
Honours and Awards
2022 Teaching Excellent Award and Unit Chair Excellent Award for MAE 213 International Trade, Department of Economics.
2020 Higher Degree by Research Award for excellent doctoral supervision of Trang Tran, Department of Economics.
2019 Annual Award for a publication in A*-ranked journal: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin University.
Young Researcher Award, Department of Economics, Deakin University, 2008-2009.
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Economics, Syracuse University, 2003-2004.
Ford Foundation Scholarship, 1999-2002.
Scholarship for French speaking countries of Canadian Agency for International Development (Bourse de la Francophonie de l’Organisation Canadienne pour le Development International), 1994-1997.
Publications
1. Pham Cong S. 2008. “Production specialization in International Trade: A Further Investigation. Journal of International Economics, 75(1): 214-218. (PDF).
ABDC Journal Quality List: A*.
2. Djankov Simeon, Freund Caroline, and Pham Cong S. 2010. “Trading on Time”. Review of Economics and Statistics, 92 (1): 166- 173. ABDC Journal Quality List: A*.
As of July 2021, this paper has had more than 1320 citations including top journals in economics such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Literature, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, European
Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics...etc.
3. Pham Cong S., Mary E. Lovely, and Devashish Mitra. 2014. “The Home-Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns: A Reexamination of the Evidence”.
International Review of Economics and Finance, 30: 120-137. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
4. Hoang Xuan-Trung, Pham Cong S. and Ulubasoglu Mehmet. 2014 “Non-Farm Activity, Household Expenditure, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Vietnam: 2002–2008”.
The World Development, 64: 554-568. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
5. Hoang Xuan-Trung, Pham Cong S., and Ulubasoglu Mehmet. 2016. “Second-Stage Trade Reforms and The Dynamics of Poverty in Rural Vietnam: 2002-2008”.
The Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, 21 (1): 132-150. ABDC Journal Quality List: B.
6. Pham Cong S., and Ulubasoglu Mehmet . 2016. “Endowment, Technology and Size in International Trade: New Evidence from Product Trade Data”. Journal of
International Trade and Economic Development, 25 (7): 913-937. ABDC Journal Quality List: B.
7. Pham, Cong S., Xuan Nguyen, Pasquale Srgo and Xueli Tang. 2017. "Has China Displaced Its Competitors in High-Tech Trade?". The World Economy, 40(8): 1569-1596.
ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
8. Mitra Devashish, Pham Cong S., Bandyopadhyau, Shubayu. 2018. "Terrorism and International Air Travel". The world Economy, 41(11): 2852-2882. Lead article.
ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
9. Hoang Xuan-Trung, Pham Cong S., and Ulubasoglu, Mehmet. 2019. "Institutions for Private Sector Development and Pro-Poor Growth: Evidence from Vietnam".
Economics of Transitions and Institutional Change, 27(3): 699-728. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
10. Tong Lan-Anh, Pham Cong S., and Ulubasoglu Mehmet. 2019. "Export Effects of US farm Subsidies".
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(4): 1277-1304. ABDC Journal Quality List: A*.
11. Martin Will, and Pham Cong S. 2020. "Estimating the Gravity Equation when Zero Trade Flows are Frequent and Economically Determined". Applied Economics,
52(26): 2766-2779. ABDC Journal Quality List: A. As of July 2021, this paper has has more than 380 citations including top journals in economics such as Journal
of International Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Applied
Econometrics, Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics, World Development, World Economy...etc. It is also cited in the Handbook of International
Economics edited by Head and Mayer (2014).
12. Nguyen Tam, Nguyen Xuan, Pasquale Sgro, and Pham Cong S. 2020. "Culture, Financial Crisis and the Demand for Property and Accident and Health Insurance in the
OECD Countries". Economic Modelling, 93, 480-498. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
13. Bandyopadhyay Subhayu, Doucouliagos Chris, and Pham Cong S. 2021. "Effects of Neighboring Nation Terrorism on Imports".
Southern Economic Journal, 88: 144-167. A version of this paper was presented at the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars in 2017 at Foreign Trade University, Hanoi,
Vietnam. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
14. Pham Cong S., Lovely, Mary E., Nguyen Xuan, and Chao Chi-Chur Chao. "Impact of China on Trade in Electronic Products". 2022. Economics of Transition and
Institutional Change, 30(2): 357-372. A version of this paper was presented at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2012. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
15. Pham Cong S. and Nguyen Hoa. 2023. “Impact of Terrorism on International Trade in Financial Services: Does the Development of Financial Institutions Matter?”.
The World Economy. This paper was presented at the Australian Trade Workshop at the RMIT in December 2018, the Asia-Pacific Trade
Seminars at the University of Tokyo in June 2019, October 27-29, 2022, Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance in October 2022, and the Vietnam
Economist Annual Meeting in November 2022. ABDC Journal Quality List: A.
Book Chapter Publications
1. Pham Cong S. 1997 (In French). “Les Relations entre le Vietnam and la Chine : une Analyse Vietnamienne”. Le dialogue Chine-Vietnam dans un context de security
multilateral an Asie Orientale, edited by Gerard Hervouet. Institute for Advanced International Studies, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
2. Martin Will, Anderson Kym and Pham Cong S. 2008. “Effects of GATT/WTO on Asia’s Trade”, pages: 50-73. International Institutions and Asian Development, edited
by Shiro Amstrong, and Thanh Vo Tri.
3. Pham, Cong S., Lovely, Mary E., and Mitra, Devashish. 2017. "The Home-Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns: a Re-examination of the Evidence".
In Lovely, Mary E. (ed), International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, pages: 135-152.
Papers under Review
1. Pham Cong S., Ulubasoglu M., and Nguyen Huong. "What Drives the Sales of the World's largest Arms Producing Companies?".
2. Pham Cong S. and Mitra Devashish. 2023. "The Color of Coronavirus". Online Appendix. This paper was presented at Brownbag Seminar Series on September 07, 2020, Deakin
University. As of September 17, 2021, this paper has been listed in on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: PublicHealthRN: Access to Health Care (Topic).
Currently under 2nd Round R&R for Southern Economic Journal.
3. Pham Cong S. "How Does the COVID-19 Vaccination Matter? A Spatial Analysis". Online Appendices. This paper was presented on October 16, 2021, in the ISVE virtual seminar series. I also presented this paper at WEAI's 17th International Conference hosted by the University of Melbourne on April 12 to 15, 2023, and at different conferences in Applied Economics and especially Health Economics. As of December 02, 2021, this paper was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Geographic Health Economics eJournal.
Finished Papers (These papers are made available online soon or/and they will be made available upon request to cong.pham@deakin.edu.au)
1. Pham Cong S. 2020. “Making America Powerful Again”. This paper was presented in WEAI virtual conference in June 2020, at Monash University in August 2020, and at the Workshop on Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour, on November 24, 2020. Deakin University. This paper was also presented in the 2021 Virtual Asia Pacific Trade Seminar (APTS) on June 27 2021, organized by the University of Tokyo, at the Vietnam Symposium in International Business as a keynote speaker presentation in October 29-November 01, 2022 at the Ho Chi Minh University of Banking. Presentation Slides. On December 01, 2023, I also presented this paper at the Melbourne Trade Workshop at the University of Melbourne.
2. Pham Cong S. 2019. “What Drives the Global Arms Trade and Military Spending”. This paper was presented at the Australian Public Choice Conference
at the RMIT in December 2018.
3. Nguyen Huong, Pham Cong S. and Ulubasoglu Mehmet. 2021. "China's Impact on World Textiles and Apparel Exports".
Ongoing Intensive Work
4. Pham Cong S. “Protecting Against Risks in International Trade”. First draft of the paper is expected in early 2022. This paper was presented at the Brownbag Seminar Series, Deakin University on April 12, 2021 and at the Melbourne Trade Workshop on December 08, 2021 at the University of Melbourne. This paper was presented at the 15th Australian Trade Workshop virtually organized on April 10, 2022 hosted by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Abstract: From the shipment departure to the delivery point at destination, both exporters and importers are incentivized to insure against numerous risks that can emerge at every step along this process. Using a sample of bilateral trade in freight insurance services among more than 50 countries for the 2000-2014 period, this paper studies how countries protect against risks in international trade. We focus on a comprehensive set of risks associated with the shipment transport, armed conflicts and terror in them, and the development of their port and legal systems. We have made several important findings. First, countries located further away from each other have significantly higher trade in freight insurance services. Second, armed conflicts in the trading pairs have no significant impact on their bilateral trade in freight insurance services while terror in them significantly increases it. This finding is in line with the argument that armed conflicts in the trading pairs reduce more merchandise trade and the odds of successful freight insurance claim than terrorism. Third, trading pairs with better port systems have significantly less bilateral freight insurance service trade. Finally, we find that trading pair with better enforcing contract indicator in terms of the time for resolving a commercial dispute through a local first-instance court trade more in freight insurance services.
5. Pham Cong S. and Xu Xing. "China' s Retaliatory Tariffs and the U.S. Agricultural Exports". First draft of this paper is expected in late 2023.
Ongoing Work
6. Pham Cong S. “Is the Kyoto Protocol Binding? Evidence from Trade in Coal and Crude Oil”.
7. Pham Cong S. “An Empirical Evaluation of the Performance of Vietnam’s Top Agricultural Exports”. A draft of this paper was presented in September 2019 to members of a Delegation of Vietnam’s Farmers Union as part of Deakin Business School Executive Education.
Less Active Research Projects
8. Pham Cong S. 2005. "Mobility and Intra-Distribution Dynamics of Trade Patterns in Manufacturing: An Empirical Investigation. Mimeo.
9. Pham Cong S. 2007. "Relationship-Specific Sunk Costs and Exporter Decisions". Mimeo.
Conference Organizing
June 10 and 11, 2023, Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS). Deakin University. Co-organizer.
Online Australasian Seminar in International Economics (OASIS). The OASIS is organized by A/Professor Laura Puzzello (Monash University) and trade colleagues in Australia and New Zealand. From 2022.
Department of Economics Seminars, Deakin University, 2009-2010. Co-organizer.
Brownbag Seminar Series, Department of Economics, Deakin University, 2011. Co-organizer.
The Econometric Society Australian Meeting, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia: 2002. Member of the organizing committee and member of the academic committee on international trade.
Trade and Development Workshop, Deakin University: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Co-organizer.
Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS), Deakin University: 11 and 12 June 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19. Co-organizer.
Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS), Deakin University: 2022. Cancelled due to COVID-19. Co-organizer.
Media Appearances
1. Interviewed by BBC News in Vietnamese, May 12, 2024. "Giá vàng 'điên loạn', phải bỏ độc quyền nhà nước mới hết?". "Gold prices 'crazy', does the state monopoly need to be abandoned to end it?"
2. Interviewed by BBC News in Vietnamese. April 23, 2024. "Việt Nam đấu thầu vàng miếng: Xóa bỏ độc quyền mới giải quyết được vấn đề?". "Vietnam's gold bar bidding: Can the excessively high domestic gold price be addressed by eliminating the monopoly?".
3. Interviewed by BBC News in Vietnamese. March 12, 2024. "Vietnam Có Phải Nền Kinh Tế Thị Trường?" "Is Vietnam a Market Economy?". "Quan hệ Việt Mỹ: Donald Trump trở lại sẽ khiến thương mại căng thẳng" "A Second Presidency of Donald Trump May Increase the Tension in Vietnam-US Trade Relations ".
4. "The Global Partnership for Infrastructure and Investment is a Pragmatic Initiative". 2022. Australian Outlook. Australian Outlook is the national online showcase of the Australian Institute for International Affairs (AIIA) for high-quality analysis and commentary on international affairs. On this occasion, I also received a standing invitation to write for Australian Outlook.
5. Doucouliagos Chris, and Pham Cong S. 2017. Counter-Terrorism Measures Permanently Reduce International Trade', The Conversation, Australia. Online link: https://theconversation.com/counter-terrorism-measures-permanently-reduce-international-trade-new-study-80816 .
6. 'Reefer Cargoes May Rise Owing to WTO Ruling', The Daily Commercial News, August 2010.'Australian Exports: Stuck in a Slow Lane', The Daily Commercial
News, June 2009.
7. "Global: Unlocking Secrets to Trade Success". 2009. University World News by Leah Germain. Online link: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20090604192124691.
Citations
Google citations: 2330 by May 22, 25, 2024. Scopus citations: 481 by May 22, 2024.
Ph.D. Supervising & Ph.D. External Examiner
Associate supervisor: Xuan-Trung Hoang, Ph.D., Deakin University. Completed in 2013.
Main supervisor: Samuel Admassu, Ph.D., Deakin University. Completed in July 2016.
Main supervisor: Lan-Anh Tong, Ph.D., Deakin University Ph.D. Completed in December 2016.
Main supervisor: Huong Nguyen, Ph.D., Deakin University. Completed in January 2017.
Associate supervisor: My Trang Tran, Ph.D., Deakin University. Completed in 2020.
Ph. D. external examiner for Cuong Cao Nguyen, LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia. 2010.
Ph.D. external examiner for Jinmei Yang, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia. 2011.
Ph. D external examiner for Julio Cesar Mancuso Tradenta, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. 2014.
Ph. D. external examiner for Theresa Tuuli, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. 2017.
Ph. D. external examiner for Paras Kharel, Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia. 2017.
Ph. D. external examiner for Yang Li, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. 2018.
Ph. D. external examiner for Khanh Hoang, Lincoln University, New Zealand. 2020.
Presentations and Conferences
June 28, 29, 2024. Asia Pacific Trade Seminar 2024, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. On this occasion, I will give a talk entitled "What Drivers the Global Arms Trade and Military Spending". Scheduled.
February 16, 2024. Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Invited speaker.
January 31, 2024. Central Theoretical Council, Hanoi Vietnam. Invited speaker.
January 27, 2024. CMC University. Invited speaker. On this occasion, I gave a talk on my preliminary work entitled "The Main Characteristics of the Chip Industry and the Impact of the US CHIPS and Science Act".
January 18, 2024. Center for Strategic Studies and International Relations Development (CSSD), Hanoi Vietnam. Invited speaker.
December 11, 2023. Thuongmai University (University of Commerce), Hanoi Vietnam. Invited speaker. The title of the talk is "Research Methods in Applied Economics: Some Thoughts".
December 01, 2023. Melbourne Trade Workshop, co-organized by Melbourne University and Monash University. Invited speaker. On this occasion, I presented my preliminary work entitled "Making America Powerful Again".
October 30 and 31, 2023. Vietnam Symposium in Global Economic Issues (VSGE2023). Organized by AVSE and Ho Chi Minh City University of Banking. Invited speaker. On this occasion, I present my paper entitled "What Drives the Global Arms Trade and Military Spending?".
July 26 and 27, 2023, Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting. Da Nang University. Invited speaker. On this occasion, I presented my paper entitled "What Drives the Global Arms Trade and Military Spending?".
June 28, 2023, Online Australasian Seminar in International Economics (OASIS). Presentation on my preliminary work entitled "Chip Trade in a Chip War".
April 12 to 15, 2023. WEAI 17th International Conference hosted by the University of Melbourne. On this occasion, I presented my paper "How Does the COVID-19 Vaccination Matter? A Spatial Analysis".
November 24 and 25, 2022. 2022 Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi Vietnam. Invited speaker. On this occasion, I presented my paper entitled "What Drives the Global Arms Trade and Military Spending?".
October 31 - November 01, 2022, 3rd Vietnam Symposium on International Business (VSIB 2022), organized by the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global) and the Ho Chi Minh University of Banking. Invited keynote speaker. The title of the keynote presentation: "Making America Powerful Again". Slides.
October 27-29, 2022, Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, by the Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global), the Banking Academy of Vietnam (Hanoi), and the International Society for the Advancement of Financial Economics (ISAFE) in partnership with the IPAG Business School and Massey University. On this occasion, I presented the paper of mine and Hoa Nguyen entitled "The effects of Terrorism on Trade in Financial Services: Does the Development of Financial Institutions Matter?".
September 23 and 24, 2022. Workshop in Memory of Professor Long Ngo Van. Organized by McGill University. The presentation was given over ZOOM. On this occasion, I presented my preliminary work entitled "Protection Against Risks in International Trade".
April 28, 2022, 2022 Deakin Bowter Business Challenge. I gave a 10-minute presentation on how to promote econkit homes, which are energy-efficient, high performance, low running cost homes built out of non-toxic materials.
April 10, 2022, 15th Australian Trade Workshop hosted by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
June 2022, Asia Pacific Trade Seminars, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Cancelled.
December 08, 2021, Melbourne Trade Workshop, University of Melbourne
June 23-24, 2021, Virtual Asia Pacific Trade Seminars, University of Tokyo, June 2021.
April 12, 2021, the Brownbag Seminar Series, Deakin University.
November 2020, Workshop on Natural Experiments in History: Development, Health, Labour. Deakin University.
August 2020, Department of Economics, Monash University, Melbourne Australia. Invited presentation.
June 26-30, 2020, Western Economic Association International, Virtual Conference.
June 11-12, 2020 Asia Pacific Trade Seminars, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia. Cancelled due to Covid-19.
March 2020 Australian Trade Conference, Australian National University, Canberra Australia. Cancelled due to Covid-19.
2019 Asia Pacific Trade Seminar, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
2019 Australian Trade Workshop, RMIT, Melbourne Australia.
2018 Australian Public Choice Conference, RMIT, Melbourne Australia.
2017 Asia Pacific Trade Seminars, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
2017 Department of Economics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Invited presentation.
2013 Department of Economics, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Invited presentation.
2013 Department of Economics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Invited presentation
2012 Department of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Invited presentation.
2011 The Econometric Society Australian Meeting, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
2011 Department of Economics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Invited presentation.
2010 Department of Economics, Monash University, Monash Australia. Invited presentation.
2009 Empirical Investigation in International Trade Conference. Hosted by the University of Melbourne.
2009 Australian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2008 37th Australian Conference for Economists, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
2008 Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia. Invited presentation.
Affiliation
American Economic Association, from 2023.
Southern Economic Association, from 2022.
Vietnam Symposium in Global Economic Issues (VSGE). Member of the Scientific Committee. From 2023.
Vietnam Annual Economist Meeting. From 2023.
Vietnamese Australian Scholars and Experts Association (VASEA). From 2023.
Referring
Journal of Economic Geography, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (4), European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics (2), International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (9), China Economic Review (5), Journal of Development Economics, Australian Economic Papers, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Record, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, World Economy (4), Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics (3), Asian Economic Journal, Journal of Asian Economics, International Trade Journal, Economics and Politics (7), Economic Inquiry (2), International Review of Financial Analysis, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Economics of Transitions and Institutional Change, and Review of World Economics.
Language Vietnamese (native), English (fluent), French (fluent) and Russian (elementary)
Citizenship Vietnamese, Australian
Preferred famous Quotes
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein
"The only one way to avoid criticism: doing nothing, saying nothing, and be nothing" — Aristotle
"Big things start small" — Jeff Bezos