Luu Duc Toan Huynh

Recent and upcoming activities (2024)

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

Selected working papers

Sanctions and knowledge spillovers (Reject & Resubmit)

(with Steven Ongena, Kiet T. Duong, and Nam T. Vu)

Tax Incentives under Sanctions: Evidence from Russian Tax Authorities 

(with Kiet T. Duong and Nam T. Vu)

• Presented: Baltic Economic Conference (Vilnius, Lithuania); 56th Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society (Reading, UK)

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

(with Po-Yin Wong)

• Presented: Asian Economic Development Conference 2025 (Peking, China), 2025 World Congress of the Econometrics Society (Seoul, South Korea)

A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam  (Revise & Resubmit)

(with Kiet T. Duong)

• Presented: Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2024 (Copenhagen, Denmark), YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar, Asian Economic Development Conference 2025 (Peking, China), 2025 World Congress of the Econometrics Society (Seoul, South Korea)

• Coverage: #Econhist papers Johan Fourie (mostly) admire

Credit constraints after natural disasters: leasing as alternative finance  (Revise & Resubmit)

(with Kiet T. Duong)

• Presented: European Financial Management Association 2024 Annual Meetings (ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)

• Coverage: VoxEU (February, 2025)

The Impact of Capitalism and Socialism on Individual Dishonesty in Vietnam 

(with Andrija Denic and Mei Wang)

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

• 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.

• 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 

• The Impact of Foreign Sanctions on Firm Performance in Russia (2025)

(with Steven Ongena and Khanh Hoang)

British Accounting Review

Paper in one sentence: Sanctions hurt non-energy Russian firms but spare energy and oligarch-linked firms, eased by preparations.

• 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)

• Real Exchange Rate and International Reserves in the Era of Financial Integration (2024)

(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.