Director - Senior Lecturer

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Quang Canh

Dr. Le Quang Canh is an Associate Professor of Economics. He is currently working at the Institute for Sustainable Development and the Faculty of Planning and Development at the National Economics University.

Associate Professor Canh has almost 30 years of experience in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He currently teaches Research Methods, Economic Forecasting, Contemporary Theories in Economic Research, and Microeconometrics.

The Associate Professor also has extensive experience working with international organizations (UNDP, World Bank, ActionAid Vietnam, Oxfam UK, KICA, DFID, KOICA), central government agencies (National Foundation for Science and Technology Development NAFOSTED, Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Planning and Investment), and provincial government agencies.

The Associate Professor's main research areas include Development Economics, Institutional Economics, and Economics of Education. His research works have been published in prestigious international journals such as Economics Letters, Journal of Business Ethics, Post-Communist Economies, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Public Administration & Development, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Crime Laws and Social Change, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, and leading domestic economic journals.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2009: Ph.D. in Economics, Kansas State University, USA
  • 2001: Master's in Development Economics, Vietnam-Netherlands Graduate Program
  • 1997: Bachelor's in Finance and Banking, National Economics University

Teaching

  • Research Methods
  • Economic Forecasting
  • Contemporary Theories in Economic Research
  • Microeconometrics

Research Areas

  • Development Economics
  • Institutional Economics (Institution and development)
  • Economics of Education (Education and development)

Notable Publications

  • Le, Q. C. & Bui, H, M (2022). Optimal economic restructuring to reduce carbon emissions intensity using the projected gradient algorithm, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022, 24(5): 6271-6287, DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01701-9 (SCIE)
  • Dang, T.C. & Le, Q.C. (2022). Spatio-temporal dependence of corruption in Vietnam, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2022, 15(4), 1143–1165. DOI 10.1007/s12061-022-09447-1 (SSCI).
  • Le, Q. C., Nguyen, T. P. T., and Do, T. N. (2020). State Ownership, Quality of Sub-national Governance, and Total Factor Productivity of Firms in Vietnam, Post-Communist Economies, DOI:10.1080/14631377.2020.1793608 (SSCI)
  • Bach, N. T., Le, Q. C., and Nguyen, V. T. (2020). Rent sharing, investment and collective bargaining: Evidence from employee-level data in Vietnam, The Developing Economies, DOI: 10.1111/deve.12262 (SSCI)
  • Gillespie, J., Nguyen, V. T., Nguyen, V. H., and Le, Q. C. (2019). “Exploring a Public Interest Definition of Corruption: Public Private Partnerships in Socialist Asia”, Journal of Business Ethics, DOI 10.1007/s10551-018-04101-8 (SSCI)
  • Nguyen, V. T., Le, Q. C., Nguyen, V. H., Vu, C. (2018). Sense making of policy processes in the transition economy of Vietnam, Public Administration & Development, 38(4) 154-165, DOI 10.1002/pad.1839 (SSCI)
  • Nguyen, V.T., Ho, Đ. B., Le, Q. C., and Nguyen, V. H. (2016). Strategic and transactional costs of corruption: perspectives from Vietnamese firms, Crime Laws and Social Change, 65, pp. 351-374. DOI 10.1007/s10611-016-9609-7 (SSCI)
  • Le, Q. C. and Dong, L. (2008). “Double length regression tests for functional form and spatial error dependence”, Economics Letters, 101, pp. 253-257 (SSCI)

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