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Tho Pham

Email:
t.pham@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
100
Job title:
Lecturer in Economics

Responsibilities:

Chair of SSLC
Module Convenor

Areas of interest

International finance, banking, empirical finance, big data analytics, online prices, and emerging market economies.

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising research in line with my areas of interest.

Background

I joined the Department of Economics at the University of Reading in September 2018. My research interests are in applied economics, media economics and empirical finance. I am particularly interested in the implications of big data/big data analytics for economic research as well as macroeconomic measurement and policies. My research has been covered in a number of media outlets including The Guardian, BBC, The Times and The Economist among others.

Academic qualifications

PhD Finance, Swansea University
MSc Banking and Finance, Coventry University
BA (Hons) International Economics, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

Awards and honours

Newton Fund Research Environmental Links UK/Vietnam Grant (2017)
UNU-WIDER Research Project Grant (2016)

Websites/blogs

Personal Website

Publications

Gorodnichenko, Y. , Pham, T. , Talavera, O. (2021) Social media, sentiment and public opinions: evidence from #Brexit and #USElection. European Economic Review , 136 ISSN: 0014-2921 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103772
Faryna, O. , Pham, T. , Talavera, O. , Tsapin, A. (2021) Wage and unemployment: evidence from online job vacancy data. Journal of Comparative Economics ISSN: 0147-5967 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2021.05.003
Gorodnichenko, Y. , Pham, T. , Talavera, O. (2021) Conference presentations and academic publishing. Economic Modelling , 95 pp. 228-254. ISSN: 0264-9993 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.12.017

Caglayan, M. , Pham, T. , Talavera, O. , Xiong, X. (2020) Asset mispricing in peer-to-peer loan secondary markets. Journal of Corporate Finance , 65 ISSN: 0929-1199 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101769
Pham, T. , Talavera, O. , Tsapin, A. (2020) Shock contagion, asset quality and lending behaviour: the case of war in Eastern Ukraine. Kyklos ISSN: 1467-6435 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12261
Pham, T. , Talavera, O. , Junhong, Y. (2020) Multimarket competition and profitability: evidence from Ukrainian banks. Oxford Economic Papers , 72 (2). pp. 517-545. ISSN: 1464-3812 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpz041

Caglayan, M. , Pham, T. , Talavera, O. (2019) Dollarization, pass-through, and domestic lending: evidence from Turkish banking. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade pp 12. ISSN: 1540-496X | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540496x.2019.1678146

Pham, T. and Talavera, O. (2018) Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: the case of Viet Nam. World Development , 102 pp. 228-242. ISSN: 0305-750X | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.005
Pham, T. , Talavera, O. , Zhang, M. (2018) Self-employment, financial development and well-being: evidence from China, Russia and Ukraine. Journal of Comparative Economics , 46 (3). pp. 754-769. ISSN: 0147-5967 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2018.07.006