Trung Vu
PhD, University of Otago
Trung is a Vietnamese economist with expertise in development economics, political economy, and applied econometrics. He joined Loughborough University as a Lecturer in Economics in 2022, having previously completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Otago.
Trung’s research interests are mainly in the area of empirical modelling of economic growth and development. His current research examines the fundamental determinants of comparative development, focusing on the role of deep-rooted institutional, cultural and human characteristics.
Trung has published articles in Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters, Kyklos, Health Economics, Land Economics, Energy Economics, Social Science & Medicine, and other journals. His research has featured in LSE Business Review, LSE USAPP - American Politics and Policy, Harvard Kennedy School's 'The Journalist’s Resource', and The Marginal Revolution.
Contact details
Email: Trung.Vu [at] lboro.ac.uk
Office: Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
Selected work in progress
Intertemporal preference and redistribution
Population aging and productivity (with Lei Xu)
Selected working papers
Revisiting the effect of democracy on population health, R&R at Oxford Economic Papers
Population diversity and gender inequality: How deep are the roots of female empowerment?, R&R at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Ancestral distance, policy compliance, and state effectiveness
Barriers to the cross-border diffusion of climate change policies
The deep historical roots of comparative cross-country health status (with P. Dorian Owen, Alfred A. Haug, and Arlene Garces-Ozanne)
Recent publications
Individualism and collective responses to climate change, Land Economics, May 2024
State history and political instability: The disadvantage of early state development, Kyklos, August 2023
Long-term relatedness and income distribution: Understanding the deep roots of inequality, Oxford Economic Papers, July 2023
Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence, Health Economics, February 2023
State history and corruption (with P. Dorian Owen), Economics Letters, September 2022