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Tho Pham

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

Responsibilities:

PGR Director (Admissions)
Module Convenor: EC228, EC327, ECM132/IDM082

Areas of interest

Applied economics, financial economics, data science

Postgraduate supervision

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

Research centres and groups

Global Development Research Division

Background

I joined the Department of Economics at the University of Reading in September 2018. My research interests are in applied economics, empirical finance, data science, and emerging market economies. 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

Rapid Response Policy Engagement Scheme – QR Strategic Priorities Fund (2020)
Newton Fund Research Environmental Links UK/Vietnam Grant (2017)
UNU-WIDER Research Project Grant (2016)

Websites/blogs

Personal Website

Publications

Pham, T. , Talavera, O. , Tsapin, A. , Pham, T. (2021) Branch network structure, authority and lending behavior. Economic Systems ISSN: 0939-3625
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. (2021) Dollarization, pass-through, and domestic lending: evidence from Turkish banking. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade , 57 (11). pp. 3190-3201. ISSN: 1540-496X | doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1540496x.2019.1678146

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

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