Binh Thanh Nguyen

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School: The Business School
Department: Economics & Finance
College: College of Business & Law
Position: Senior Lecturer, Senior Program Manager of Finance
Location: RMIT Saigon South
Email: binh.nguyenthanh@rmit.edu.vn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5036-8458

Binh is the Senior Program Manager of Blockchain Enabled Business and the Fintech-Crypto Hub coordinator at RMIT Vietnam. He is a leading academic thought leader in frontier fields of finance & technology including Blockchain, Digital Assets, Digital Economy and Fintech. Binh has over 15 years of teaching experience at the University of Regensburg in Germany and RMIT Vietnam.

  • Ph.D. at the University of Regensburg
  • M.Sc. at the University of Regensburg
  • B.Sc. at the University of Regensburg

Blockchain Enabled Business

  • Blockchain
  • Digital Assets
  • Digital Economy
  • Cryptofinance

  • Nguyen, T.B., Nguyen, V.H.T., Pham, H., Nguyen C.T. and Pham, A.T. (2022) Are the Stabilities of Stablecoins Connected? Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Pham, H., Nguyen, T. B., Ramiah, V. and Bui, M. (2021), Modern Portfolio Theory in the Age of Cryptocurrency. Australian Journal of Applied Finance. (ABDC Rank: B)
  • Doan, B., Pham, H. & Nguyen, T. B. (2021) Price discovery in the cryptocurrency market: evidence from institutional activity. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40812-021-00202-0 (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Pham, H., Nguyen T. B., Ramiah, V., & Moosa, N. (2021). The effects of hacking events on bitcoin. Journal of Public Affairs, e2744. (ABDC rank: B)
  • Nguyen, T. B., Strobel, J. and Lee, G. (2020), A New Measure of Real Estate Uncertainty Shocks. Real Estate Economics, 2020, Volume 48: 744-771. (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Nguyen, T.B. (2020), Macroeconomic Uncertainty, the Option to Wait and IPO Issue Cycles. Finance Research Letters,  Volume 32, 101100. (Scimago Rank: Q1)
  • Nguyen P. C., Nguyen T.B., Su D.T. and Schinckus, C. (2020) Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Role of Economic Policy Uncertainty, International Economics, 2020, Volume 161, Pages 159-172. (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Nguyen, V. H. T., Pham, T. T. T., Nguyen P. C., Nguyen, C. T. and Nguyen, T. B. (2020). Excess Liquidity and Net Interest Margins: Evidence from Vietnamese Banks. Journal of Economics and Business (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Nguyen, V. H. T., Nguyen, T. B., Nguyen, C. T. and Nguyen, Q. (2019).  Bitcoin Return: Impacts from the Introduction of New Altcoins". Research in International Business and Finance, 48, 420-425. (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Nguyen, V. H. T., Nguyen, T. B., Nguyen K. S., and Pham, N. A. H. (2019). Asymmetric Monetary Policy Effects on Cryptocurrency Markets, Research in International Business and Finance, Volume 48, Pages 335-339. (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Strobel, J., Nguyen, T. B. and Lee, G. (2019). Effects of Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Labor Demand Shocks on the Housing Market. Real Estate Economics, V00, 1-28. (Scimago rank: Q1)
  • Nguyen, T. B. (2018). Uncertainty and Trade: Evidence from Germany, Empirical Economics Letters, Volume 17, 10. (ABDC rank: C)
  • Huber, S. and Nguyen, T. B. (2017). Trade, Vertical Production Process and Causality. Applied Economics Letters, 24:5, 329-333. (ABDC rank: B)

  • 2022  $60,816 from the Ethereum Foundation for the project “Monetary Policy in the Age of Cryptocurrencies”.
  • 2020 $5,400 from The Regional Science Association International for the Nurturing Talent 2020 Workshop at 17th The Pacific Science Conference Organization (PRSCO) Summer Institute, 2020
  • 2018 $23,000 from VinaCapital for the project “Vietnamese State-Owned Enterprises equitization”

Binh is currently supervising 3 PhD students in the areas of digital economy and Blockchain 

  • Research Exellence Award for Research Impact 2020, College of Business & Law, RMIT University
  • Living RMIT’s Values Award 2019, RMIT Vietnam
  • Excellent Teaching Award 2017, awarded by the School of Business and Management, RMIT Vietnam

Advisor of Applied Financial Technology at Dragon Capital, 2022-present 

  • 04/2022 – present Senior Program Manager of Blockchain Enabled Business, School of Business & Management, RMIT Vietnam
  • 01/2021 – present   Coordinator of the RMIT Fintech-Crypto Hub, School of Business & Management, RMIT Vietnam
  • 01/2021 - present Senior Lecturer, The Business School, RMIT Vietnam
  • 03/2019 – 04/2022 Senior Program Manager (former Discipline Lead) of the Finance Discipline, School of Business & Management, RMIT Vietnam
  • 10/2017 – 12/2020 Lecturer, The Business School, RMIT Vietnam
  • 10/2013 - 09/2017 Associate Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Regensburg, Germany