Pitt Business: Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration

Dung Nguyen

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Office: 240 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1521
E-mail: nguyen@katz.pitt.edu

Degrees

PhD in Economics, University of Maryland
MS in Forest Management, University of the Philippines
MA in Economics, University of the Philippines
MA in Economics, University of Maryland
BS in Forestry Engineering, University of Saigon
BA in Philosophy, University of Saigon

MBA Courses Recently Taught

BECN 2401 Economic Analysis for Managerial Decisions: Firms and Markets
BMKT 2537 Advanced Marketing Strategy
BMKT 2520 Sales Forecasting
BIND 2502 International Research—Asia

Interest Group

Finance and Economics

Profile

Dung Nguyen’s research interests include various aspects of management decisions such as optimal sales behavior, optimal advertising, economic decisions under uncertainty, applications of stochastic control theory, and estimations of various econometric systems. He is currently interested in theoretical and empirical issues of theories of business cycles and aspects of international economics. Nguyen has published in and served as a referee for several professional economics and management journals, and has regularly presented papers at professional meetings. His teaching assignments at the Katz School include managerial economics at the MBA level, and doctoral seminars in econometrics and multivariate analysis.

Publications

"Competitive Advertising Startegies and Market Dynamics: A Research Note on Theory and Evidence," with Larry Shi, forthcoming in Management Science.

"Firm Capabilities, Timing of Internet Adoption, and Performance," with L. Shi, J. Hulland, and R. Chatterjee, MSI Reports 2005, Issue Four, Marketing Science Institute, Boston, MA.

Book Review: The Vietnamese Economy, edited by B. Tran Nam and C. Do Pham, Routledge-Curzon, in Journal of Asian Business, 2003.

"The Plausibility of Agriculture-Led Development," Review of Development Economics, March 2000.

"Multinomial Logit Market Share Models: Equilibrium Characteristics and Strategic Implications," with Suman Basuroy, Management Science, 1998.

"Marketing Decisions Under Uncertainty", Kluwer Academic Publishers, International Series in Quantitative Marketing, Boston, Mass., 1997.

Working Papers

"Multi-brand Advertising Competition in Market Share Attraction Models: Theory and Evidence," with Suman Basuroy, under revision.

"A Nearly Competitive Theory of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials," under revision.