Description

Currently, I specialize in corporate finance, international and local law, free trade agreement, asset pricing, difference-in-differences, triple differences, and PSM-DiD. Concurrently, I serve as a reviewer for several distinguished peer-reviewed journals, including the International Review of Financial Analysis, Evaluation Review, Journal of Asian Business Economic Studies, International Journal of Social Economics, Research in International Business and Finance, International Finance, and Financial Innovation. My research has been published in various renowned international journals such as Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, International Review of Economics and Finance, Resources Policy, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Research in International Business and Finance, Evaluation Review, Archives of Public Health, and Heliyon. Beyond academia, I am actively involved in municipal and national projects focused on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and investor sentiment within Vietnam. 

International-coauthors-network: Thailand, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Germany, US, Australia, UK, China, Vietnam

Academic progress

• Winning "Summer research contest", held by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City Students' Association, 2013

• Graduated Bachelor of  Banking and Corporate Finance, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, 2017 

• Awarded special scholarship for the highest-ranking student in Master of Finance program, a joint between Massey University and University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, 2018

• Awarded "Massey Business School International Study Award", 2018

•  Awarded "Massey Business School International Study Award", 2019

• Graduated with Distinction (Valedictorian), Master of Finance, Massey University, 2019

• Awarded INFINZ Scholarship, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 

•  Awarded Massey Doctoral Scholarship (Full time) since 2020 

•  SAS Superlatives, 2021 

• Researcher Connect Programme for early career researchers (ERCs) funded by Newton Fund, 2023 

• "Mastering randomized controlled trials (RCTs): From Theory to Practice" program sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through The Economy and Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) and Environment for Development (EfD) Vietnam, 2023

• Successfully defense my PhD in 02/2024

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• The Heterogeneous Impact of Sanctions on Energy Stock Returns: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war

(World Economy, forthcoming) (ABDC-A, ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI) 

Presented at ACBES Conference ( The 5th Asia Conference on Business and Economic Studies) 

      Publisher: Wiley

• Stock return volatility and financial distress: moderating roles of ownership structure, non-financial constraints, and managerial ability 

(International Review of Economics and Finance, 2024)  (ISI:Q1, SSCI, ABDC-A,  ABS: 2*) 

      Publisher: Elsevier

•  Corporate Social Responsibility and Myopic Management Practice. Is There a Link?

(Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2024) (ABS:3*)

       Publisher: Springer

• The Role of Geopolitical Risks in Shaping National Reserves and Resource Management Strategies: A Global Perspective

(Resources Policy, 2024) (IF:10.2, Scopus: Q1, SSCI, ABS: 2*) (a Mining, Energy, Public Policy, and Finance Research  journal)

Publisher: Elsevier 

• Energy security and the shift to renewable resources: the case of Russia-Ukraine war  

(The Extractive Industries and Society, 2024) (Scopus: Q1, SSCI, IF:3.1) 

Presented at ACBES Conference ( The 5th Asia Conference on Business and Economic Studies) 

•  Does reinforcement learning outperform deep learning and traditional portfolio optimization models in frontier and developed financial markets? 

 (Research in International Business and Finance, 2023)   (Scopus: Q1 (top 10%), ISI:Q1, SSCI, ABS: 2*)

       Publisher: Elsevier

•  Governance and monetary policy impacts on public acceptance of CBDC adoption   

       (Research in International Business and Finance, 2023) (Scopus: Q1 (top 10%), ISI:Q1, SSCI, ABS: 2*)

       Publisher: Elsevier

•  Do investors’ personalities predict market winners? Experimental setting and machine learning analysis  

      (Heliyon Finance, 2023) (Scopus: Q1, SCIE)

      Publisher: Elsevier

•  The race against time to save human lives during the COVID-19 with vaccines: Global evidence 

       (Evaluation Review, 2022)  (ABDC-A, SSCI, Scopus: Q1)

       Publisher: SAGE

•  How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

       (Archives of Public Health, 2022) (covered by VoxEU,  Atlantico) (Scopus: Q2, SSCI)

      (Open access supported by UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and Global Labor Organization (GLO))

      Publisher: Springer

            + Atlantico:  CAMPAGNE VACCINALE. Bons et mauvais élèves de la vaccination dans le monde : radioscopie des facteurs clés 

               (Full interview from Prof. Zimmermann 's website)

            + VoxEU: Understanding the setup and speed of global COVID-19 vaccination campaigns  

•  Public sentiment towards economic sanctions in the Russia–Ukraine war

       (Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2022) (covered by VoxEU,  Atlantico ,  Wiley Kudo) (ABDC-A, SSCI, ABS: 2*)

       (The second most read paper in the Scottish Journal of Political Economy in 2023)

       (Top 10 most cited paper in the Scottish Journal of Political Economy in 2022 - 2023)

       (Open access supported by Massey University, New Zealand)

       Publisher: Wiley

                 + Atlantico: Pro russe ou pro Ukraine ? Ce que l’analyse des posts Facebook dans 108 pays révèle de la genèse des sentiments sur la guerre 

                 + VoxEU: Public sentiment towards economic sanctions in the Russia–Ukraine war 

                 + Wiley Kudo: Public sentiment towards economic sanctions in the Russia–Ukraine war 

Selected working papers

• Ratting out the cartel: Whether and how do corporations operationally react to leniency laws? (preparing to submit to an FT50 journal) (first author)

      (Presented at Massey University, New Zealand (01/2024))

• Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol and Doha Amendment on emissions: New insights from a novel difference-in-differences analysis*

(R&R on an A* journal) (first author)

• The Heterogeneous Impact of Sanctions on Energy Stock Returns: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war

(R&R on an ABDC-A, ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI journal) 

Presented at ACBES Conference ( The 5th Asia Conference on Business and Economic Studies) 

• Does stock liquidity matter for corporate cash holdings? Insights from a transition market

(R&R on an ABDC-A, ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI journal) 

• Financial freedom and Bank performance: The mediating role of the multiple-tool regime, governance characteristics, and business strategies

      (R&R on an ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI journal) 

• Cost and Geopolitical risk: Insights from emerging markets*

(R&R on an ABDC-A, ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI journal) 

• Geopolitical risks, Monetary trilemma and global stagflation

( R&R on  a Q2, ESCI journal)

• The impacts of financial news and investors’ sentiments on stock market

      (R&R on ABDC-A, ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI journal) (IF >10)

• Inequality is inevitable, but reducing it is political* 

SSRN's Top Ten download list for "Income Inequality" and "Social & Political Philosophy " topics from 12/2023 to 02/2024

• Revisiting insider ownership and firm value: new evidence from New Zealand's evolving corporate landscape

     (R&R on an ABDC-A, ABS: 2*, Q1:SSCI journal) 

• Innovation and Globalization: Benefactors or Barriers to Inclusive Growth?

• Rethinking the Inequality-Growth Nexus: Short-Term Gains and Long-Term Challenges

(submitted to Journal of Economic Issues)  (ABS:2*)

• Echoes of Sentiment: How Investor Emotions Shape the Stock Market Landscape in long-run and short-run 

      ( R&R on Sage Open) (Scopus: Q1, ISI: Q2)

• Climate policy uncertainty and risks: Evidence from sustainability strategies businesses perspectives*

• Gender-Biased Intergenerational Mobility in developing Southeast Asia countries*

• Like father, like child: Evidence from ASEAN developing countries*

• Risk and patents: An empirical evidence*

• And a couple of working papers, mostly in corporate finance, machine learning, macroeconomics, ESG, impacts of laws on firms globally (dissertation- three essays) and investment

Projects

• Expertise report: "Vietnam Digital Currency: Business perspectives and policy implications " figures out what CBDC is and how Blockchain-based technology will be applied in International Trade through the International Conference on Vietnam Digital Currency & Blockchain-enabled Applications in International Trade, co-hosted by Friedrich Naumann Foundation Vietnam, University of Economics Hochiminh City, and Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies. 

• Expertise report: "The nexus between world oil stock price and firms' leverage: From Vietnamese listed firms" for Vietnamese Government's annual report, 2023.

• Ministerial level research project: Ministry of Education and Training- Constructing an investor sentiment index based on cutting-edge machine learning approaches for the Vietnam stock market on behalf of State Securities Commission of Vietnam in a project granted by the Ministry of Education and Training (18 months) (2023-2024) (No 1393/QD-BGDDT 26th May, 2022)  (~$18,500) 

• Ministerial level research project: Ministry of Education and Training- "Application of artificial intelligence in enhancing financial knowledge and investment decision-making of individual investors in Vietnam" in a project granted by the Ministry of Education and Training (18 months) (2025-2026)  (initiating) 

Experience

• Referees for :

+ International Review of Financial Analysis

+ Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies 

+ Evaluation Review 

+ Research in International Business and Finance 

+ International Journal of Social Economics 

+ PLOS ONE

+ Financial Innovation

+ International Finance

+ American Journal of Business

+ Heliyon Economics / Finance

•  Teaching Assistant for Professor Udomsak Wongchoti, Massey University, New Zealand

  Banking and Financial risk management & Advanced Corporate Finance (1/2021 - 12/2022)

  Research and Analytics in Economics and Finance   (125.785 )     (1/2024 - 6/2024))

• Research Assitant for Dr. Harvey Nguyen, Massey University, New Zealand

(Calculating liquidity indices for stocks globally ( Program: STATA and SAS, Datasource: Datastream))

• Speaker:

" Introduction to Conventional Difference-in-Differences" - Master program in University of Economics, Ho Chi minh City, 3/2023

“Modern Difference-in-Differences estimator for heterogeneous event dates: An empirical evidence” – Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, 4/2023 

"Research proposal: Finance research field" - Inspire Global Pitching Research Competition - 6/2023

"Difference-in-Differences: Policy Analysis" - Falcuty of Finance, Ho Chi Minh University of Banking - 6/2023

"Scientific Research Gallery Walk " - School of Banking, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, 8/2023

"The Heterogeneous Impact of Sanctions on Energy Stock Returns: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War" ACBES Conference (the fifth Asia conference on business and economic studies) hosted by JABES 08/2023.

• Mentor: 

Key speaker at 2024 Research Mentoring Program organized by Inspire Global Pitching Research Competition Organization and Knowledge Bridge

2023 VNPRC Workshop 07 | Topic FINTECH | Nguyễn Văn Phúc Massey Uni NZ | Sunday 11/6/2023

2024 Research Mentoring Orientation Session 1 | 16/12/2023

2024 Research Mentoring program | Orientation Session 2 | Sat 23/12/2023

Research Mentoring Orientation Session 4 Sunday 7/1/2024

Mentor for PhD Candidates from Australia, Taiwan, France, Japan, New Zealand

• Conference coordinator and Discussant:

The 5th ACBES Conference, hosted by JABES 08/2023, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Associations

• American Finance Association (AFA) (since 2019)

• Global Labour Organization (GLO) (since 2021)

• American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section) (since 2019)

• Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (since 2021)

• IQ:129

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