DrCong Pham

Dr Cong Pham is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. Prior to joining Deakin, Cong worked as a consultant in the Development Research Group, the World Bank, Washington D.C. from 2005 to 2008. He obtained his PhD in Economics at Syracuse University, New York, USA.

His research interests include, are not limited to, the following topics: empirical international trade, political economy, the relationship between trade, development and poverty, the effects of terrorism on international trade in goods and services, the role of networks in international trade in goods and services, the determinants of arm trade, the impact of China on patterns of world trade in high-tech products, the export impact of US farms subsidies on US state exports, the US-China trade war and its impact, China's retaliatory tariffs and their impact of US agricultural exports, the determinants of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the determinants of trade in freight insurance services. I am also interested in topics related to other Asian economies such as India, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN economies and Vietnam.He has published in journals such as the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the World Economy (3), the Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (2), the International Review of Economics and Finance, the World Development, Econommic Modelling, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, and Southern Economic Journal (2).