I am currently an Associate Professor (Reader) at De Montfort University. I received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University. I am also the Vice Director of the Institute for Research in Economics, Environment and Data Science. My research focuses on using firm-level data to gain insights on the impacts of globalization on firms’ performance, labour market and recently on the environment. I am particularly interested in the intersections between Globalization and Climate Change. Recently, I finished two projects as the principal investigator:
1/ "Globalization and Climate Change", funded by the National Foundation for Science and Technology
2/ "Food resilience and rural poverty in Vietnam: the role of trading networks and information flows", funded by the British Academy. More information can be found on our website: https://ruralnetworks.our.dmu.ac.uk/ 


My work was published in the Journal of Development Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, the World Economy, Review of International Economics, among others (see the full list here). 

​My working papers: 

  1. Aging in the Air: The Impact of Emissions on Health-Related Quality of Life - paper
  2. Government policies or personal decisions: Substitutes or Complements? – submitted to Economic Letters.
  3. The Impact of Media on Trade: Evidence from the 2008 China Milk Contamination Scandal – joint work with Ce Matthew Shi and Zheng Wang – 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. “Multiproduct firm, factor endowment and trade liberalization” – submitted to Review of Industrial Organization.
  6. Luong, T. “A theory of the network of suppliers”.
  7. Luong, T. and H. Nguyen “COVID-19, lockdown and labor uncertainty”.
  8. 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
  9. Luong, T. and Z. Azuma “The Covid-19 induced Economic Crisis”