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TEACHING

• FINA 362 Business Finance
• FINA 464 Financial Markets and Institutions
• FINA 482 Risk Management for Financial Institutions

Professional Excellence

• Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
• Ph.D. in Business (Finance), Auburn University
• Master of Business (Banking and Finance), Monash University
• Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) National Economics University
• Professional experience: Economics Analyst at Deposit Insurance of Vietnam (a government agency) (2005-2011)

RESEARCH and publications

• Barth, James R.; Cebula, Richard J.; and Nguyen, Nguyen T.H. (2023) "New Empirical Evidence on Factors Influencing the Yield on High-Grade Municipal Bonds," American Business Review: Vol. 26: No. 2, Article 11.
  DOI: 10.37625/abr.26.2.503-518  https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/americanbusinessreview/vol26/iss2/11
• “Community Banks vs. Non-Community Banks: Where is the Advantage in Local Small Business Funding?” (with James R. Barth),2020, Atlantic Economic Journal, 48(2), 161-174.
• “Deposit Insurance Schemes” (with James R. Barth and Jiayi Xu), 2022, The Encyclopedia of Finance, edited by Cheng-Few Lee and Alice C. Lee, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
•  “Financial Literacy and Use of Financial Services by US Households” (with James R. Barth, Valentina Hartarska, and Jitka Hilliard), 2023, Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development, edited by Valentina Hartarska and Robert Cull, Edward Elgar Publishing.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Banking,  Banking Regulation, Financial Inclusion, Corporate Finance

AWARDS AND HONORS

• MNSU College of Business Research Award 2023-2024 (April 2023);
• The Clayton Homes Award for Excellence Ph.D. Candidate in Finance (January 2021); 
• The Raymond J. Harbert College of Business Award, Auburn University Student Research Symposium (May 2020); 
• Emerging Scholar, 2019 Community Banking in the 21st Century Research and
  Policy Conference, The Federal Reserve of St. Louis (October 2019); 
• Foreign Trade University President’s Award for Excellence in Supervising Students in Research (May 2013); 
• Australian Development Scholarship (January 2009).