TUAN ANH LUONG
De Montfort University
Office: HU 2.79
Hugh Aston Building
The Gateway, Leicester UK
Email: [email protected]
Nationality: Vietnamese, British
Update: May 2025
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor (Reader) in Economics and Finance, De Montfort University
Vice Director, Institute of Research in Economics, Environment and Data Science (IREEDS)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-organizer, Vietnam Symposium on International Business 2019 - present
Guest Editor, Singapore Economics Review 2019
Visiting scholar, Toulouse University of Economics, March 2018 to April 2018
Member of the Vietnam Economic Policy Group 2017-now
Member of the Productivity Research Network, Asian Development Bank, 2017-now.
Member of the Canadian Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society.
VC2020 Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University, August 2017 to August 2021
VC2020 Lecturer, De Montfort University, March 2016 to August 2017
Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, July 2009 to February 2016
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2011
Dissertation: Three Essays in International Trade
Advisors: Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Mark Melitz (Harvard University)
Princeton University, M.A. in Economics, 2006
Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, M.A., Economics, 2004
Ecole Polytechnique, B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Economics, 2003
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
- 2024: De Montfort University’s International Impact in Research Nominee
- 2025: De Montfort University’s Student Choice Teaching Award Nominee
PUBLICATIONS
1. Kitsoleris, G,. and T. Luong. (2025) “Socio-economic mobility in Greece and the role of education” – Public Sector Economics, Vol. 49, No.1, pp. 89-127, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.49.1.4
2. Luong (2024) “The role of health expenditures in health outcomes:
Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic”, forthcoming, Bulletin of Economic Research
3. Le, Luong, Nguyen, Nguyen (2023). “The relative roles of domestic and foreign capital in aggregate production of GDP and CO2-equivalent emission across OECD countries”, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, vol. 30, No. 11, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24208-w
4. Luong, T. and H., Nguyen and K., Truong and K., Le (2023) “Rainfall variability and internal migration: the importance of agriculture linkage and gender inequality” Economic Analysis and Policy, vol 77, pp. 326-336 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.11.021
5. Luong, T. and Z. Azuma (2022), “On the road to economic prosperity: the role of infrastructure in Ghana” in the Elements in the Economics of Emerging Market, Ed. by B. Sergi, Cambridge University Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029360 .
6. Fan, H. and T. Luong and E. Lai and L. Zhang (2022) “Import liberalization and Export Product Mix” –Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 55(1) pp. 419-57 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12573
7. Liu Q., R. Lu, Y. Lu and T. Luong (2021) “Import Competition and Firm Innovation: Evidence from China”, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 151 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102650
8. Luong, T. (2021) “Ethnic Diversity and the Quality of Export: Evidence from Chinese firm-level data” – Journal of Economic Studies, vol 48(7) pp. 1323-35
9. Luong, T. (2021) “Reopening the economy and food security” – Covid Economics, vol. 56 pp. 195-243
10. Luong, T. and T. Nguyen (2021) “The impact of ICT on Service Trade” –Singapore Economics Review, vol 66(4), pp.1073-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S021759082049003X
11. Luong, T. and T. Nguyen, (2020) ''Globalization and infectious diseases: Evidence on the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 pandemic'', Economics Bulletin, 40(2) pp. 1675-1685.
12. Luong, T. (2018) “Picking Cherries or Lemons? A unified theory of cross-border mergers and acquisitions” – World Economy, vol. 41(2), pp. 653-666.
13. H. Fan and X. Gao and A. Li and T. Luong (2017) “Trade Liberalization and Markups: Micro Evidence from China” - Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 46(1), pp. 103-130.
14. Luong, T. and S. Li and R. Huang (2016) “Country of Export Destination Effects”, Lambert Academic Publishing.
15. Luong, T. and W. Chen (2016) “The Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports and Labor Heterogeneity” – Review of Development Economics, vol. 20(1) pp.201-13.
16. Luong, T. (2013) “Does learning by exporting happen? Evidence from the automobile industry in China”, Review of Development Economics, vol. 17(3), pp. 461-73
17. Luong, T. (2011) “The Impact of Input and Output Tariffs on Firms’ Productivity”, Review of International Economics, vol. 19(5), pp.821-35.
18. Luong, T. (2007) “Monetary Policy and Credit Market Imperfections”, Vietnam Science & Technology Development, vol. 10(8)
SCHOLARSHIPS and GRANTS
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) research fund (£6000) – Principal Investigator
Higher Education Innovation Funding – from 2020 to 2022 (£13,000) - Principal Investigator
The Trade and Investment Policy Reforms to Stimulate Economic Growth FTURS02-2020-04 – from 2021 to 2024 (£28,000) – Co Investigator
British Academy “Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Program 2020” from 2021 to 2023 (£47,840) – Co Investigator
The Vietnamese National Foundation of Science and Technology “Globalisation and the impacts on Climate Change” from 2019 to 2021 (£24,000) – Principal Investigator
Australian Embassy in Vietnam “Vietnam Industrial Map Building” – from 2020 to 2021 (£63,000) – Co Investigator
Vice Chancellor Research grant 2016 – 2021 ($6,000) – Principal Investigator
Future Research Leadership grant (£1,500) in 2020 – Principal Investigator
“Social and Institutional Aspects of Vietnam integration” research grant from 2017 to 2019 (£15,000) – Co investigator
De Montfort University Faculty of Business and Law Research Grant 2017 (£2,800) – Principal Investigator
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Research Grant from 2009 to 2012 (£4,000) – Principal Investigator
Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship, 2004-2008.
Princeton University Centennial Fellowship, 2004-2006.
Princeton University Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, 2005-2008.
French Government Fellowship (CROUS, EGIDE), 2001-2004.
Ho Chi Minh City National University Scholarship (highest rank), 1998-2000.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education Scholarship (highest rank), 1995-1998.
WORK IN PROGRESS
1. Luong, T. and T. Ngo and D. Le and N. Nguyen and E. Cartwright ”Network resilience, risk aversion, procrastination and gender roles: Evidence from Vietnamese Vegetable Farming”
2. Luong, T. “Government policies or personal decisions: Substitutes or Complements?“
3. Z, Wang, and M. Shi and T. Luong “The Impact of Media on Trade: Evidence from the 2008 China Milk Contamination Scandal”– R&R at the Canadian Journal of Economics.
4. Luong, T. and H. Nguyen “The optimal timing of environmental policy” – submitted to Resource and Energy Economics.
5. Luong, T. “The role of health expenditures in health outcomes: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic” – submitted to Bulletin of Economic Research.
6. Luong, T. “Multiproduct firm, factor endowment and trade liberalization”
7. Luong, T. and H. Nguyen “COVID-19, lockdown and labor uncertainty” - submitted to the European Economic Review
8. Luong, T. “A theory of the network of suppliers”.
9. Aubert, C. and T. Luong and H. Nguyen “COVID-19, mitigation policy and food insufficiency”.
10. Luong, T. and G. Kitsoleris “Intergenerational Income Mobility: Evidence from Greece”
11. Cartwright, E. and T. Luong and J. Payne and S. Virmani “The economic impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic for Leicester” – SSRN http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3622981
12. Do, Luong and Nguyen “Sustaining Vietnam’s Economic Miracle: The role of Productivity Growth”.
13. Luong, T. and Z. Azuma “The Covid-19 induced Economic Crisis”
14. Luong and Nguyen “Quality of life and climate change: Evidence from the SHARE dataset”.
TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
Courses:
Undergraduate: Introduction to Microeconomics; Introduction to Macroeconomics, Introduction to Econometrics; Intermediate Microeconomic theory; Advanced Microeconomic theory; International Economics; Industrial Economics; Data Management and Visualization.
Post-graduate: Macroeconomics in the global context; Advanced International Economics; Frontier Research in International Economics; Dissertation Study Support.
Thesis supervision: Undergraduate and Post graduate levels.
DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONS
Georgios Kitsoleris – First supervisor (graduated)
Zenas Azuma – First supervisor (graduated)
Nhan Le – First supervisor (graduated)
Muhammad Sanusi – First supervisor
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Successfully validate the MSc Economics programme in 2022.
Transform the Dissertation module from a lecture-based to a workshop-based module.
Improve the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
Restructure the MSc Economics to be aligned with DMU E2030 initiative.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Referee for Review of Development Economics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, World Economy, Frontiers of Economics in China, European Economics Review, International Economic Journal, Review of International Economics, China Economic Review, Spatial Economic Analysis.
Conference and Seminars
Up to 2020: University of Navarra (Spain), Beijing University of International Business and Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing University, Nottingham University in Ningbo (China), Singapore Management University (Singapore), Queensland University (Australia), the City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Toulouse School of Economics (France), Rouen University (France ), the Mid-West International Trade Meeting, the International Economic and Finance Society meeting, the International Economic Association meeting, the Econometric Society in North America, in Europe and in Asia, EITI Conference, GEP conference, Australian Trade Workshop, European Trade Study Group, Royal Economic Society Meeting; Agricultural Economic Society Annual Meeting
2021: Royal Economic Society Annual Meeting (Queen University); Seminar at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
• 2022: G65 conference (in honor of Gene Grossman; Princeton University); Food Resilience and Rural Poverty in Vietnam (De Montfort University)
• 2023: Seminar at Loughborough University; Agricultural Economic Society Annual Meeting (Warwick University); Seminar at Vietnam National University of Agriculture.
• 2024: Vietnam Symposium in Global Economic Issues (university of Banking in HoChiMinh City); "Health, Environment, Development and Growth Economics: New Perspective and Challenges" (University of Pisa, Italy); Trade and Development (Fudan University, China)
BOOK EDITING
Frank/Cartwright (2020) Microeconomics and Behaviour – 3rd edition
Perloff J. (2017) Microeconomics – 7th edition
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
MATLAB, STATA, SPSS, R, C, C++, JAVA, Python, GTAP.
LANGUAGES
English (fluent), French (advanced), Vietnamese (native), Chinese (basic).
De Montfort University
Office: HU 2.79
Hugh Aston Building
The Gateway, Leicester UK
Email: [email protected]
Nationality: Vietnamese, British
Update: May 2025
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor (Reader) in Economics and Finance, De Montfort University
Vice Director, Institute of Research in Economics, Environment and Data Science (IREEDS)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-organizer, Vietnam Symposium on International Business 2019 - present
Guest Editor, Singapore Economics Review 2019
Visiting scholar, Toulouse University of Economics, March 2018 to April 2018
Member of the Vietnam Economic Policy Group 2017-now
Member of the Productivity Research Network, Asian Development Bank, 2017-now.
Member of the Canadian Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society.
VC2020 Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University, August 2017 to August 2021
VC2020 Lecturer, De Montfort University, March 2016 to August 2017
Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, July 2009 to February 2016
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2011
Dissertation: Three Essays in International Trade
Advisors: Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) Gene Grossman (Princeton University) Mark Melitz (Harvard University)
Princeton University, M.A. in Economics, 2006
Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, M.A., Economics, 2004
Ecole Polytechnique, B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Economics, 2003
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
- 2024: De Montfort University’s International Impact in Research Nominee
- 2025: De Montfort University’s Student Choice Teaching Award Nominee
PUBLICATIONS
1. Kitsoleris, G,. and T. Luong. (2025) “Socio-economic mobility in Greece and the role of education” – Public Sector Economics, Vol. 49, No.1, pp. 89-127, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.49.1.4
2. Luong (2024) “The role of health expenditures in health outcomes:
Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic”, forthcoming, Bulletin of Economic Research
3. Le, Luong, Nguyen, Nguyen (2023). “The relative roles of domestic and foreign capital in aggregate production of GDP and CO2-equivalent emission across OECD countries”, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, vol. 30, No. 11, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24208-w
4. Luong, T. and H., Nguyen and K., Truong and K., Le (2023) “Rainfall variability and internal migration: the importance of agriculture linkage and gender inequality” Economic Analysis and Policy, vol 77, pp. 326-336 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.11.021
5. Luong, T. and Z. Azuma (2022), “On the road to economic prosperity: the role of infrastructure in Ghana” in the Elements in the Economics of Emerging Market, Ed. by B. Sergi, Cambridge University Press, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029360 .
6. Fan, H. and T. Luong and E. Lai and L. Zhang (2022) “Import liberalization and Export Product Mix” –Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 55(1) pp. 419-57 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12573
7. Liu Q., R. Lu, Y. Lu and T. Luong (2021) “Import Competition and Firm Innovation: Evidence from China”, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 151 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102650
8. Luong, T. (2021) “Ethnic Diversity and the Quality of Export: Evidence from Chinese firm-level data” – Journal of Economic Studies, vol 48(7) pp. 1323-35
9. Luong, T. (2021) “Reopening the economy and food security” – Covid Economics, vol. 56 pp. 195-243
10. Luong, T. and T. Nguyen (2021) “The impact of ICT on Service Trade” –Singapore Economics Review, vol 66(4), pp.1073-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S021759082049003X
11. Luong, T. and T. Nguyen, (2020) ''Globalization and infectious diseases: Evidence on the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 pandemic'', Economics Bulletin, 40(2) pp. 1675-1685.
12. Luong, T. (2018) “Picking Cherries or Lemons? A unified theory of cross-border mergers and acquisitions” – World Economy, vol. 41(2), pp. 653-666.
13. H. Fan and X. Gao and A. Li and T. Luong (2017) “Trade Liberalization and Markups: Micro Evidence from China” - Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 46(1), pp. 103-130.
14. Luong, T. and S. Li and R. Huang (2016) “Country of Export Destination Effects”, Lambert Academic Publishing.
15. Luong, T. and W. Chen (2016) “The Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports and Labor Heterogeneity” – Review of Development Economics, vol. 20(1) pp.201-13.
16. Luong, T. (2013) “Does learning by exporting happen? Evidence from the automobile industry in China”, Review of Development Economics, vol. 17(3), pp. 461-73
17. Luong, T. (2011) “The Impact of Input and Output Tariffs on Firms’ Productivity”, Review of International Economics, vol. 19(5), pp.821-35.
18. Luong, T. (2007) “Monetary Policy and Credit Market Imperfections”, Vietnam Science & Technology Development, vol. 10(8)
SCHOLARSHIPS and GRANTS
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) research fund (£6000) – Principal Investigator
Higher Education Innovation Funding – from 2020 to 2022 (£13,000) - Principal Investigator
The Trade and Investment Policy Reforms to Stimulate Economic Growth FTURS02-2020-04 – from 2021 to 2024 (£28,000) – Co Investigator
British Academy “Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Program 2020” from 2021 to 2023 (£47,840) – Co Investigator
The Vietnamese National Foundation of Science and Technology “Globalisation and the impacts on Climate Change” from 2019 to 2021 (£24,000) – Principal Investigator
Australian Embassy in Vietnam “Vietnam Industrial Map Building” – from 2020 to 2021 (£63,000) – Co Investigator
Vice Chancellor Research grant 2016 – 2021 ($6,000) – Principal Investigator
Future Research Leadership grant (£1,500) in 2020 – Principal Investigator
“Social and Institutional Aspects of Vietnam integration” research grant from 2017 to 2019 (£15,000) – Co investigator
De Montfort University Faculty of Business and Law Research Grant 2017 (£2,800) – Principal Investigator
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Research Grant from 2009 to 2012 (£4,000) – Principal Investigator
Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship, 2004-2008.
Princeton University Centennial Fellowship, 2004-2006.
Princeton University Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship, 2005-2008.
French Government Fellowship (CROUS, EGIDE), 2001-2004.
Ho Chi Minh City National University Scholarship (highest rank), 1998-2000.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Education Scholarship (highest rank), 1995-1998.
WORK IN PROGRESS
1. Luong, T. and T. Ngo and D. Le and N. Nguyen and E. Cartwright ”Network resilience, risk aversion, procrastination and gender roles: Evidence from Vietnamese Vegetable Farming”
2. Luong, T. “Government policies or personal decisions: Substitutes or Complements?“
3. Z, Wang, and M. Shi and T. Luong “The Impact of Media on Trade: Evidence from the 2008 China Milk Contamination Scandal”– R&R at the Canadian Journal of Economics.
4. Luong, T. and H. Nguyen “The optimal timing of environmental policy” – submitted to Resource and Energy Economics.
5. Luong, T. “The role of health expenditures in health outcomes: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic” – submitted to Bulletin of Economic Research.
6. Luong, T. “Multiproduct firm, factor endowment and trade liberalization”
7. Luong, T. and H. Nguyen “COVID-19, lockdown and labor uncertainty” - submitted to the European Economic Review
8. Luong, T. “A theory of the network of suppliers”.
9. Aubert, C. and T. Luong and H. Nguyen “COVID-19, mitigation policy and food insufficiency”.
10. Luong, T. and G. Kitsoleris “Intergenerational Income Mobility: Evidence from Greece”
11. Cartwright, E. and T. Luong and J. Payne and S. Virmani “The economic impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic for Leicester” – SSRN http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3622981
12. Do, Luong and Nguyen “Sustaining Vietnam’s Economic Miracle: The role of Productivity Growth”.
13. Luong, T. and Z. Azuma “The Covid-19 induced Economic Crisis”
14. Luong and Nguyen “Quality of life and climate change: Evidence from the SHARE dataset”.
TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
Courses:
Undergraduate: Introduction to Microeconomics; Introduction to Macroeconomics, Introduction to Econometrics; Intermediate Microeconomic theory; Advanced Microeconomic theory; International Economics; Industrial Economics; Data Management and Visualization.
Post-graduate: Macroeconomics in the global context; Advanced International Economics; Frontier Research in International Economics; Dissertation Study Support.
Thesis supervision: Undergraduate and Post graduate levels.
DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONS
Georgios Kitsoleris – First supervisor (graduated)
Zenas Azuma – First supervisor (graduated)
Nhan Le – First supervisor (graduated)
Muhammad Sanusi – First supervisor
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Successfully validate the MSc Economics programme in 2022.
Transform the Dissertation module from a lecture-based to a workshop-based module.
Improve the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
Restructure the MSc Economics to be aligned with DMU E2030 initiative.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Referee for Review of Development Economics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, World Economy, Frontiers of Economics in China, European Economics Review, International Economic Journal, Review of International Economics, China Economic Review, Spatial Economic Analysis.
Conference and Seminars
Up to 2020: University of Navarra (Spain), Beijing University of International Business and Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing University, Nottingham University in Ningbo (China), Singapore Management University (Singapore), Queensland University (Australia), the City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Toulouse School of Economics (France), Rouen University (France ), the Mid-West International Trade Meeting, the International Economic and Finance Society meeting, the International Economic Association meeting, the Econometric Society in North America, in Europe and in Asia, EITI Conference, GEP conference, Australian Trade Workshop, European Trade Study Group, Royal Economic Society Meeting; Agricultural Economic Society Annual Meeting
2021: Royal Economic Society Annual Meeting (Queen University); Seminar at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
• 2022: G65 conference (in honor of Gene Grossman; Princeton University); Food Resilience and Rural Poverty in Vietnam (De Montfort University)
• 2023: Seminar at Loughborough University; Agricultural Economic Society Annual Meeting (Warwick University); Seminar at Vietnam National University of Agriculture.
• 2024: Vietnam Symposium in Global Economic Issues (university of Banking in HoChiMinh City); "Health, Environment, Development and Growth Economics: New Perspective and Challenges" (University of Pisa, Italy); Trade and Development (Fudan University, China)
BOOK EDITING
Frank/Cartwright (2020) Microeconomics and Behaviour – 3rd edition
Perloff J. (2017) Microeconomics – 7th edition
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
MATLAB, STATA, SPSS, R, C, C++, JAVA, Python, GTAP.
LANGUAGES
English (fluent), French (advanced), Vietnamese (native), Chinese (basic).
