Browsing by Author "Luong, Tuan Anh"

Extensive and Intensive Margins of Exports and Labor Heterogeneity

Luong, Tuan Anh; Chen, Wei-Chih (Article)

This paper investigates how changes in skilled and unskilled labor supply affect different margins of exports. Using bilateral trade data in manufacturing sectors of 34 countries from 1995 to 2010, we find that most of the ...

Globalization and infectious diseases: Evidence on the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 pandemic

Thu Hang, Nguyen; Luong, Tuan Anh (Article)

In this paper we investigated the impact of globalization on infectious diseases and found that export values contributed greatly to the reproduction rate of the COVID-19 outbreak. We collected the number of new cases and ...

The impact of ICT on service trade

Luong, Tuan Anh; Thu Hang, Nguyen (Article)

While trade in goods has been investigated extensively over decades, studies on trade in services are relatively new. In this paper we investigate the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) on trade ...

Picking Cherries or Lemons: A unified theory of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Luong, Tuan Anh (Article)

This paper provides a theoretical framework that enhances understanding of empirical evidence suggesting that international mergers and acquisitions, a key source of Foreign Direct Investment, seemingly target in-country ...

Trade Liberalization and Markup: Micro Evidence from China

Luong, Tuan Anh; Fan, Haichao; Gao, Xiang; Li, Yao Amber (Article)

This paper presents evidence from highly disaggregated Chinese firm-product data that, given productivity, input tariff reductions induce an incumbent importer/exporter to increase product markups. We further investigate ...