Staff directory
Dr Phong Ngo
Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics
Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: phong.ngo@anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 612 51079
Office:
Room 3.56, CBE Bld (26C)
Research areas
Banking; Political economy; Household finance; Corporate finance; Applied micro-econometrics.
Biography
Phong Ngo is a Senior Lecturer of Finance. He is a member of the American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Vietnamese Finance Association, European Finance Association, Financial Research Network, and Economic Society of Australia. Phong’s research interests are banking, the political economy, household finance, corporate finance and applied micro-econometrics. His current research focuses on the impact of financial media on household financial decisions (e.g., how financial media impacts mortgage refinancing decisions) as well as questions related to the political economy of finance (e.g. how political polarization influences the functioning of a corporate board). Phong’s research work has been appeared in leading academic journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Research publications
Does government spending crowd out R&D investment? Evidence from government-dependent firms and their peers (joint with Jared Stanfield) forthcoming at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Voting with your feet: Political competition and internal migration in the US (joint with Wai-Man Liu) forthcoming at the European Journal of Political Economy
There is no 'I' in team: Career concerns, risk-taking incentives and team outcomes (joint with Steven Roberts) forthcoming at the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Political uncertainty and accounting conservatism (joint with Lili Dai) forthcoming at the European Accounting Review
Global political uncertainty and asset prices (joint with Jonathan Brogaard, Lili Dai and Bohui Zhang), forthcoming at the Review of Financial Studies
Elections, political competition and bank failure (joint with Wai-Man Liu), Journal of Financial Economics 112, 251-268, 2014
A theory of precautionary regulatory capital in banking, International Review of Finance 6, 99-124, 2006 (lead article)
Working papers
Found at SSRN author page
Research grants and awards
Grants
AFAANZ Grant, The Relevance of Liquidity Risk in Value-at-Risk Measures for Banks (2010)
Awards
Rosetta Institute FIRN Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 2019
FIRN Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 2013
Research engagement and outreach
Member of –
Financial Research Network
American Economic Association
American Finance Association
Vietnamese Finance Association
European Finance Association
Financial Research Network
Economic Society of Australia
Teaching
FINM3006 Financial Intermediation and Debt Markets
FINM8014 Applied Financial Intermediation and Debt Markets
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