Assoc. Prof. Dr.Bach Ngoc Thang
Vice Director-Senior Lecturer
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Bach Ngoc Thang
Lecturer of Economics
Education
2014: Ph.D. in Economics, The University of Queensland
2005: M.A. in Development Economics, co-conferred by National Economics University and Erasmus University Rotterdam
2002: B.A. in Development Economics, National Economics University
Fields of Research
Economic Growth and Development, Governance, SMEs
Biography
Dr. Bach Ngoc Thang has been a lecturer at National Economics University (NEU) since 2005. His primary teaching subjects are Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Research Methods for both undergraduate and postgraduate students at NEU, and other leading universities in Hanoi. In 2014, he obtained Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Queensland, Australia. He is passionate in teaching and sharing knowledge with people. He believes in higher education’ greater impacts on the economy and society, by building up high-quality human resources and responsible people.
Bach Ngoc Thang’s research interests are Economic Growth and Development, Governance, and SMEs. He has an active research program. His research works have been published in a number of international academic journals, such as World Development, The Economics of Transition, The Journal of Development Studies, The Developing Economies, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Journal of Economics and Development, among others. Doing regular research enables him to broaden his collaborative networks and to benefit his students with frontier knowledge of their fields. Besides teaching and research, he participates in doing consultancy and community services in the areas of governance and sustainable development, with notable clients such as Ministry of Science and Technology, Australian Embassy, UNDP, World Bank, and JICA. He also supervises students at Ph.D. level, and serves as a seminar series coordinator for the E-Ph.D. Programme.
Selected publications
Nguyen, T. X., Hoang, K., Nguyen, C. C., & Bach, T. N. (2021). Do different political connections affect firms’ distress risk differently?. International Journal of Emerging Markets, EarlyCite.
Bach, T., Harvie, C., Le, T. (2021). How do credit constraints affect small and medium enterprises’ strategic employment decisions and employees’ labor outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam, The Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 29(2), 319-341.
Bach, T., Le, T., & Bui, Y. (2020). Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam. The Journal of Development Studies, 1-15.
Bach, T. N., Le, C. Q., & Van Nguyen, T. (2020). Rent sharing, investment, and collective bargaining: Evidence from Employee-level data in Vietnam. The Developing Economies.
Malesky, E. J., Nguyen, T. V., Bach, T. N., & Ho, B. D. (2020). The effect of market competition on bribery in emerging economies: An empirical analysis of Vietnamese firms. World Development, 131, 104957.
Bach, T. N. (2019). State owned enterprises and capital misallocation in Vietnam. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 24(3), 430-451.
Nguyen, T. V., Bach, T. N., Le, T. Q., & Le, C. Q. (2017). Local governance, corruption, and public service quality: evidence from a national survey in Vietnam. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 30(2), 137-153.
Teaching
Advanced Econometrics (E-Ph.D. Programme), Macroeconomics (MBA & undergraduate), Research Methods (undergraduate & postgraduate).
Further details
(CV attached:CV_Bach Ngoc Thang_July2021)
(Link to Google Scholar)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nydtUkcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao