Luu Duc Toan Huynh
Associate Professor @ Queen Mary University of London
4.25K Bancroft Building
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Email: t.huynh[at]qmul.ac.uk
Research interests: Applied and behavioral economics; Political economy
Co-Editor @International Finance (Wiley) and Evaluation Review (SAGE)
Guest Editor of the special issue Wars, economic sanctions, economic behaviors, and institutions of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Recent and upcoming activities (2024)
Call for papers: Special Issue to Commemorate the Work of Daniel Kahneman at Risk Analysis: An International Review
I will be visiting the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT) as a researcher in January 2025.
Grants
(New) Received BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (SRG 2023 Round) as the main Principal Investigator (PI)
Project title: Sanctions and Russian firm responses with Kiet Duong and Quan Nguyen
Selected working papers
The real effects of Brexit on labor demand: Evidence from firm-level data
(with Hang Do, Kiet T. Duong, and Nam T. Vu)
Presented: WHU Finance & Accounting Seminar (2024), Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business (2024), Macro Development Annual Workshop (2024), Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (MMM) (2024)
The Impact of Foreign Sanctions on Firm Performance in Russia (R&R)
(with Steven Ongena and Khanh Hoang)
Coverage: VoxEU (July, 2022)
Presented: 5th Baltic Economic Conference (Stockholm School of Economics Riga); SNEE 2023 Conference (Lund University, Sweden); 17th CEUS Workshop (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management); European Financial Management Association 2023 Annual Meetings (Cardiff University)
The Impact of Capitalism and Socialism on Individual Dishonesty in Vietnam (R&R)
(with Andrija Denic and Mei Wang)
A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam (Under review)
(with Kiet T. Duong)
Presented: Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2024 (Copenhagen, Denmark), YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar
Credit constraints after natural disasters: leasing as alternative finance (Under review)
(with Kiet T. Duong)
Presented: European Financial Management Association 2024 Annual Meetings (ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Selected publications
(with Anh Phan, Kiet T. Duong, and Nam T. Vu)
Economics Letters
Coverage: VoxEU (September, 2024) and LSE Blogs (European Politics & Policy) (September 23, 2024)
Paper in one sentence: Russian firms used indirect ties with friendly nations to lessen the impact of 2014 sanctions.
(with Tam N. Luong and Bryan S. Weber)
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
Presented: 2023 European Economic Science Association Meeting (Exeter, United Kingdom)
Paper in one sentence: Our experiment revealed that during the Lunar New Year, individuals showed increased patience only when wait times were framed in yearly increments.
(with Loan Quynh Thi Nguyen)
Corporate Governance: An International Review
Paper in one sentence: This study reveals how competing, control, and collaborative cultures in US bank holding companies differentially affect liquidity creation, influenced by bank size, experience, and profitability.
(with Li Zhang, Chao Liang, Lu Wang, and Olivier Damette)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Paper in one sentence: Our study uses advanced modeling and natural language processing to show how G20 countries' focus on climate issues affects renewable energy stock volatility, providing insights for national energy strategies.
(with Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Jamel Saadaoui and Gazi Salah Uddin)
Journal of International Money and Finance
Paper in one sentence: The impact of financial institution development on stabilizing real exchange rates using international reserves in 110 countries from 2001 to 2020.
Coverage: VoxEU (November, 2023)
Presented: SNEE 2023 Conference (Lund University, Sweden)
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: It did not work and was too late (solo-authored, 2023)
Regional Studies
Paper in one sentence: The number of infected cases is found to increase despite the lockdowns reducing visits to public areas.
(with Peng-Fei Dai, John W. Goodell, Zhifeng Liu, and Shaen Corbet)
The Financial Review
Paper in one sentence: Cryptocurrencies have a higher probability of crash risk than equity indices, and can act as a source of financial instability for equity markets.