
Research Interests
- Macroeconomics, International Trade, Public
PhD Research Project
Merchandise Trade Openness, Export Competitiveness, Bi-lateral Trade Agreements and Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development – Revisiting Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Supervisors
- Prof.Dr. Syed Mansoob Murshed
- Prof.Dr. Nguyen Trong Hoai
Description of PhD research project
My dissertation revisits interactions between sovereign external debt sustainability and merchandise trade openness, industrial employment and manufacturing exports, bilateral trade agreements and infrastructure development respectively, in low- and middle-income countries.
Publications
- Nguyen-Thanh, T., Murshed, S. M., & Nguyen-Trong, H. (2025). Industrial employment and external debt sustainability: evidence from low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17487870.2025.2579829
- Nguyen-Thanh, T. (2025). Merchandise trade openness enhances sovereign solvency in low- and middle-income countries – a Panel Vector Autoregression analysis. Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 1–15. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17520843.2025.2571294
- Tung Nguyen-Thanh, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Hoai Nguyen-Trong, “Bilateral Trade Agreements Enhance External Debts Markets Accessibility – Empirical Evidence of Vietnam with Synthetic Control Analysis”, International Economic Journal, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10168737.2024.2448621
- Tung Nguyen-Thanh, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Hoai Nguyen-Trong, “External Debts, Re-election Possibilities and the Infrastructure Development via Public Private Partnership: Evidence from Low-and Middle-Income Countries”, International Economic Journal, 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10168737.2024.2355522.