Ngo Van Long

Department of Economics

Introduction

Ngo Van Long, Professor, PhD, from the Australian National University. Long came to McGill in 1989 after teaching for several years at the A.N.U. A former co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics and associate editor of the Journal of International Economics, he is currently associate editor of the Review of International Economics, the International Game Theory Review, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory. He is also on the editorial boards/councils of the European Journal of Political Economy, the Pacific Economic Review, Mathematical Social Sciences, the Australian Economic Papers, the Review of Development Economics, and is fellow/research fellow of GREQAM, CIRANO, CESifo, CIREQ.

Research interests and contributions to economics

His research covers a wide range of issues in microeconomic theory with specialization in four separate but related fields of economics, stressing their complementarity and intersections:

1. Resources and Environmental Economics

2. Theory of International Trade

3. Theory of Dynamic Optimization and Dynamic Games in Economics

4. Theory of Industrial Organization

Since 1973, he has consistently published articles and books in these four fields, and where possible, emphasizing their complementarity. Long says: "I believe that knowledge should not be compartmentalized, and I will encourage my students to work across fields, rather than in a single field. For example, in the study of pricing by internet service providers (field 4), dynamic games (field 3) are crucial to the analysis. Similarly, the strategies for resource-exporting nations (field 1) would be best understood in the context of world trade liberalization (field 2). In studying the effects of trade on income inequality one cannot ignore the investment in human capital, which is inherently a dynamic process (field 3)."

Long notes, "I love the Canadian winter, especially when the temperature is around -30°C. It is my most productive time of the year." [Editor's note: in fact, the mean daytime temperature in January and February, our two coldest months, is -4°C, though it does occasionally drop as low as Long says.]

Publications

Please see the "Curriculum vitae" link listed above.