About Me

I am an applied economist interested in economic and political issues related to technology, the environment, energy and development. I am currently based at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as a Research Economist. Before joining CEP, I was a Faraday Institution Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where I gained an MSc degree in International Economics (2015) and a PhD degree in Economics (2019). My active research topics include:

• Innovation, productivity, and sustainable growth.
• The politics of climate-related natural disasters.
• Low-carbon technology, resource security, and circular economy.
• Climate, water resources, energy, and development.

Research

Publications

• Elliott, R., Nguyen-Tien, V., Strobl, E., Tveit, T. (2023), ‘Natural Disasters and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Environmental Legislation in the US Senate’, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10 (3). [Paper].
• Jones, B., Nguyen-Tien, V., & Elliott, R. (2023), ‘The electric vehicle revolution: Critical material supply chains,trade and development’, The World Economy, 46 (1), 1– 16. [Open Access].
• Lander, L., Tagnon, C., Nguyen-Tien, V. Kendrick, E., Elliott, R., Abbott, A. , Edge, J., Offer, G. (2023) ‘Breaking it down: A techno-economic assessment of the impact of battery pack design on disassembly costs’, Applied Energy, 331, 120437. [Open Access].
• Nguyen-Tien, V., Dai, Q., Harper, G., Paul, A., Elliott, R., (2022) ‘Optimising the Geospatial Configuration of a Future Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Industry in the Transition to Electric Vehicles and a Circular Economy’, Applied Energy 321 119230. [Open Access] [Slides].
• Elliott, R., Nguyen-Tien, V., Strobl, E. (2021), ‘Power Outages and Firm Performance: A Hydro-IV Approach for a Single Electricity Grid’, Energy Economics 103, 105571. [Paper] [Request a copy].
• Lander, L., Cleaver, T., Rajaeifar, M., Nguyen-Tien, V., Elliott, R., Heidrich, O., Kendrick, E., Edge, J., Offer, G. (2021), ‘Financial Viability of Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling’, iScience 24, 102787. [Open Access].
• Jones, B., Elliott, R., Nguyen-Tien, V. (2020), ‘The Electric Vehicles Revolution: The Road ahead for Critical Raw Materials Demand’, Applied Energy 280. [Open Access] [Blog].
• Nguyen-Tien, V., Elliott, R. and Strobl, E. A. (2018), ‘Hydropower generation, flood control and dam cascades: A national assessment for Vietnam’, Journal of Hydrology 560, 109–126. [Paper] [Free version].

Reports and Blogs

• Nguyen-Tien, V., Elliott, R., Harper, G., Laura, L. (2022) ‘Green growth and electric vehicles: the role of recycling’. LSE Business Review. [Blog].
• Valero, A., Li, J., Muller, S., Riom, C., Nguyen-Tien, V. and Draca, M. (2021), ‘Are ‘green’ jobs good jobs? Howlessons from the experience to-date can inform labour market transitions of the future’. London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science. [Report].
• Curran, B., Martin, R., Muller, S., Nguyen-Tien, V., Oliveira-Cunha, J., Serin, E., Shah, A., Valero, A. & Verhoeven, D. (2022), ‘Growing clean : Identifying and investing in sustainable growth opportunities across the UK’. The Resolution Foundation. [Report] [Financial Times].

Work in Progress

• ‘Climate, Innovation, Employment’ (with Van Reenen, J., Martin, R., Valero, A., Bratch, F., Shah, A.).
• ‘Mineral Price Shocks, Disruptive Technologies and Innovative Firms’.
• ‘The New Wave? Technology Diffusion in the UK during the 2010s.’ (with Draca, M., Nathan, M., Sivropoulos-Valero, A., Zhang, S., Rosso, A., Oliveira-Cunha, J.).[POID] [Slides]
• ‘Economic Growth Goes ‘Fractal’: The Changing Structure of the UK’s High-Growth Economy’ (with Draca, M., Nathan, M., Sivropoulos-Valero, A., Zhang, S., Rosso, A., Oliveira-Cunha, J.). [Slides]
• ‘The Empirics of ‘Blitzscaling’: technology and high-growth firms in the UK’ (with Draca, M., Nathan, M., Sivropoulos-Valero, A., Zhang, S., Rosso, A., Oliveira-Cunha, J.). [POID]
• ‘Electric Vehicle Chargers, House Prices and Inequality’ (with Beltran, A.).
• ‘Extreme Weather, Vehicle Reliability and Scrappage Schemes’ (with Elliott, R., Strobl, E., Zhang, C.).