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Anh Tran

Assistant Professor


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trananh@indiana.edu
(812) 855-0563
SPEA Room 410J


Education
Ph.D. in Public Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009
Master in Advanced Economics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 1999
A.B., (with honors), Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 1995

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2009-present
  • Director, Vietnam Initiative
  • Faculty Research Associate, Harvard University, 2009-present
  • Short-term Consultant, World Bank Institute, Washington D.C., 2006-2008
  • Short-term Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Hanoi and Colombo, 2002–2007
  • Researcher, Prime Minister’s Research Council, Vietnam, 2000–2003
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Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • Honorable mention, 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Bangkok, 2010
  • Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching, J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007–2008
  • Asia Pacific Academic Fellow, UNDP, 2006–2007
  • Fellow, Harvard Yenching Institute, 2003–2007
  • Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2005–2007
  • Fellow, Emerging Leaders Program, Asia Foundation, 2002

Professional Interests
Institutions and behavior of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and workers in developing countries

Current Projects

  • “Can Regulations Reduce Corruption? Evidence from the Internal Records of a Bribe-Paying Firm”
  • "Agency Cost of Delegation: Evidence from Kickbacks and Profits in Procurement" (with Shawn Cole)
  • “Rank as an Incentive” (with Richard Zeckhauser), Harvard Kennedy School’s Discussion Paper
  • “News Leakage, Manipulation and Stock Market” (with Shawn Cole and Vinh Nguyen)
  • “Child Quantity and Disability: Evidence from Vietnam” (with Cuong Nguyen)
  • “Intra-industry Agglomeration” (with David Audretsch and Cuong Nguyen)
  • “The Adverse Effect of Sunshine: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Transparency in Authoritarian Parliament” (with Eddy Malesky and Paul Schuler)
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Selected Publications
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  • “Rank as an Inherent Incentive: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics, (with Richard Zeckhauser)
  • “Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption” in S. Rose-Ackerman and T. Soreide ed. International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption (Vol II), forthcoming, (with Shawn Cole)
  • “Familiar Patterns and New Development Ahead of the 11th Vietnamese Communist Party’s Congress”, Journal of South East Asian Studies, forthcoming (with Edmund Malesky and Paul Schuler)
  • “Corruption, Political Systems and Human Development”, in Perspectives on Corruption and Human Development, pp. 268 – 320, Macmillan, 2010.
  • “Four Stages to Analyze and Prevent Corruption” (with R MacLean), Kennedy School Review, 2007.
  • “Fiscal Options in the Future” (with Anh Dinh Vu), in Binh Tran-Nam and Chi Do-Pham (Eds.) Vietnam Economy: the Dormant Dragon, pp. 74 – 88, Routledge, 2002.
  • “The ASEAN Economies”, Economics, Economics and Business Edu. New South Wales, 36 (1) 2000.
  • “Vietnam: An Arduous Path to Development”, Economics, Economics and Business Edu. 36 (1) 2000.