Le Vu Hai, PhD
College of Arts and Sciences
Adjunct Faculty
Biography
Hai Le is an adjunct faculty member at the College of Arts & Sciences, VinUniversity, a project consultant at the Asian Development Bank, and a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Vietnam Campus. Prior to these roles, he was a Research Associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) for two years and previously served as a lecturer at the Banking Academy in Hanoi, Vietnam. Dr. Le earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Economics, supported by the prestigious Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship, where he also worked as a teaching and research assistant. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance from the Banking Academy of Vietnam. He has published in several high-impact international journals indexed in ISI/Scopus, including the Journal of Economic Studies, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Energy, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Review of Economics of the Household, and Applied Economics.
His research interests include monetary economics, empirical macroeconomics, Bayesian econometrics, and applied economics, with a particular focus on emerging economies. He is also passionate about energy and environmental economics.
His teaching interests cover Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Applied Time Series Econometrics, and Monetary Economics.
- “Monetary Policy in Practice: Do Central Bank Respond to Movements in Exchange Rate and Credit Growth?,” (with Phuong Nguyen), Journal of Economic Studies, 51, December 2023. (ESCI, Q1, ABDC: B, IF=2.2)
- “Big Data Analytics and Environmental Performance: The Moderating Role of Internationalization” (with Kim-Chi Vu), Finance Research Letters, 64, 105484, June 2024. (SSCI, Q1, ABDC: A, IF=7.4)
- “Renewable Energy Investments and Feed-in Tariffs: Firm-Level Evidence from Southeast Asia,” (with Dina Azhgaliyeva, Resi Ong Olivares, Shu Tian), Applied Energy, 374, 123986, November 2024. (SCIE, Q1, ABDC: A, IF=10.1)
- “Carbon Pricing, Firms’ GHG Emissions: Firm-Level Empirical Investigation from East Asia,” (with Dina Azhgaliyeva), Journal of Cleaner Production, 429, 139504, December 2023. (SCIE, Q1, ABDC: A, IF=11.1)
- “Energy Poverty and Children’s Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Young Lives Data” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), forthcoming at Applied Economics. (SSCI, Q2, ABDC: A, IF=1.8)
- “Maternal Education and Children Survival: Causal Evidence from Kenya” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung, Yijun Yu, Phuc Nguyen), Review of Economics of the Household, June 2024. (SSCI, Q1, ABDC: A, IF=4.1)
- “Women’s empowerment in Zimbabwe: Examining the role of educational reform” (with Yijun Yu, Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), Social Indicators Research, January 2025. (SSCI, Q1, ABDC: A, IF=2.8)
- “Modeling Inflation Dynamics: A Bayesian Comparison between GARCH and Stochastic Volatility,” Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 36(1), 2112-2136, July 2022. (SSCI, Q2, IF=4.7)
- “The Impacts of Credit Standards on Aggregate Fluctuations in a Small Open Economy: The Role of Monetary Policy,” Economies, 9(4), 203, December 2021. (ESCI, Q2, IF=2.4)
- “Elderly Well-Being amidst Energy Poverty: Exploring the Health, Social, and Economic Impacts in Vietnam,” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), Energy Research & Social Science, 118, 103762, December 2024. (SSCI, Q1, IF=6.9)
- “Assessing the Environmental Impacts on Corporate Financial Performance: A Firm-Level Study of GHG Emissions in Africa” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), Sustainable Production and Consumption, 47, 644-654, June 2024. (SSCI/SCIE, Q1, IF=10.9)
- “Energy Poverty and Health Expenditure: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), Social Sciences, 13(5), 253, May 2024. (ESCI, Q2, IF=1.7)
- “Urbanization and Health Expenditure: An Empirical Investigation from Households in Vietnam,” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), Economies, 12(6), 153, June 2024. (ESCI, Q2, IF=2.1)
- “Firm Investment in Renewable Energy: An Empirical Evidence from the People’s Republic of China,” (with Dina Azhgaliyeva). Energy Proceedings, 25, July 2022.
- “Investment in Renewable Energy, Emissions, and COVID-19: A Firm-Level Empirical Evidence from the People’s Republic of China,” (with Dina Azhgaliyeva), Asian Development Outlook 2023 Thematic Report Background Papers, April 2023.
- “Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Firm’s Emissions: Firm-Level Empirical Investigation from Emerging Asia-Pacific countries,” (with Dina Azhgaliyeva), ADBI Working Papers, December 2023.
- “Nexus between Firms’ Emissions and Corporate Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from the Panel VAR Models,” (with Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung), accepted for publication at conference proceeding of the 4th Global Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economy in an Era of Uncertainty.
Ph.D. in Economics
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, September 2022
Dissertation: Essays on Business Cycles and Monetary Policy
Main advisor: Shinichi Nishiyama
Dissertation Committees: Shinichi Nishiyama (chair), Shuhei Takahashi (co-supervisor), and Daishin Yasui
M.A. in Economics
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, March 2018
B.A. in Banking and Finance
Banking Academy of Vietnam, July 2012
Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho: MEXT), April 2015 – March 2021
Awarded for graduate studies at Kyoto University.
Special Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Performance, 2011
Conferred by the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam.
Banking Industry Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2010
Awarded by the State Bank of Vietnam.
Banking Industry Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2009
Awarded by the State Bank of Vietnam.
