Luu Duc Toan Huynh

Recent and upcoming activities (2026)

• Call for papers (European Journal of Finance): A Decade After Brexit: Navigating the New Age of Barriers in European Finance Issues (Deadline: 30 September 2026)

• Call for papers (Risk Analysis): Special Issue to Commemorate the Work of Daniel Kahneman at Risk Analysis: An International Review (Submission closed)

Selected working papers

The Unseen Pain of the Vietnam War: Long Term Effects of Agent Orange on Labor Market Outcomes  (Minor Revise & Resubmit)

(with Po-Yin Wong)

• Presented: Asian Economic Development Conference 2025 (Peking, China), 2025 World Congress of the Econometrics Society (Seoul, South Korea), German Development Economics Conference 2025 (Frankfurt, Germany), 30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Bergen, Norway), 

Wealth, Medical Spending, and Health: Evidence from a Housing Reform 

(with Zeen He)

What Matters for the Rise in Trade? Evidence from the African Continental Free Trade Area 

(with Kiet T. Duong, Povilas Lastauskas, and Nam T. Vu)

• Presented: 2026 CSW Asia Meeting (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates); QMUL 2026 Finance Research Cluster (London, UK)

Macroprudential Policy and Corporate Innovation: Evidence from European countries 

(with Xuan Viet Ho, Brigitte Granville, and Steven Ongena)

• Presented: 18th International Conference Western Economic Association International (WEAI) (Bangkok, Thailand)

• Coverage:  VoxEU (August, 2025)

• CEPR Discussion Paper 21715

Better a Neighbour Close By: Regional Partnerships and Firm Trade During the First Trade War (Major Revise & Resubmit)

(solo-authored)

Grants

• Received BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (Sanctions and Russian firm responses) (SRG 2023 Round) as the main Principal Investigator (PI) 

Sanctions and inventories: Evidence from Russian energy firms (with Kiet Duong and Quan Nguyen) 

Energy Economics

Selected publications

• Regional bombs and public labour obligations 

(solo-authored, 2026)

International Public Management Journal

Paper in one sentence: War bombing has a U-shaped effect on public labour contributions: less at moderate exposure, more at extreme exposure.

• When doing good feels wrong: The double-edged influence of perceived organizational opportunism on employee CSR behavior (2026)

(with Jintao Lu, Yue Li, Benjamin Laker, Chunyan Wang, Valerie Onyia Babatope, and  Malin Song)

Journal of Management Studies

Paper in one sentence: Perceived opportunism in corporate social responsibility makes employees act superficially rather than genuinely, unless they feel empowered.

• The real effects of Brexit on labor demand: Evidence from firm-level data (2025)

(with Hang Do, Kiet T. Duong, and Nam T. Vu)

Journal of International Economics

Paper in one sentence: Brexit’s 2020 implementation cut jobs and growth in exposed UK firms but spurred R&D, eased by prior trade.

• Policy impact: Greater London Authority Economics Report (2026) cited.

• Coverage:  VoxEU (May, 2025)

• 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), 14th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (2025)

• Best paper award at 2025 Asian Summer School in Econometrics and Statistics 

• 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.