The seventh Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM 2014) on 24 th 25 th, June 2014 University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam PROGRAMME

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1 The seventh Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (VEAM 2014) on 24 th 25 th, June 2014 University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam PROGRAMME Welcome reception: 18:30-20:00, Monday, June 23 rd 2014 Victory Hotel, 14 Vo Van Tan, District 3, HCMC Tuesday, June 24 th 2014 Location: Room A103, Room A207 (level - 1), Room A303 (level - 2), Room A305 (level 3), Room A311 (level - 4) 08: 00-08: 30 Registration A103 08:30-09:00 Welcome addresses 09: 00-10:00 Plenary session 1 - A103 Keynote speaker 1: Professor Binh Tran Nam, The New South Wales University, Australia. Chair: Professor Nguyen Trong Hoai 10: 00-10:15 Coffee break 10: 15 12:15 Parallel session I 1

2 Session 1.1: Room A207 (level 1) Banking System 1 Chairperson: Le Quang Minh Hai Anh La: Bank lending and international shock transmission - Ownership matters no more Dinh Vinh Vo, Risk and income diversification in the vietnamese banking system Tran Bao An, The relationship Between Banking Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction in Commerical Banks in Thua Thien Hue Provincce_Viet Nam_The Test on Structural Equation Modeling Le Quang Minh, Operating efficiency of commercial banks in vietnam: technical approach and determinations Session 1.2: Room A303 (level 2) FDI and Domestic Economies 1 Chairperson: Quoc Hung Tran Phung Thi Huong Giang, Can foreigners improve the efficiency of emerging market banks? Evidence from the vietnamese strategic partner program Nguyen Bach, How do different types of SMEs react to the presence of FDI and informal institutions in their expansion? Nguyen Huu Thanh Tam, Diversification or specialization? The roles of development level, FDI spillovers, investment in training, and heterogeneity of firm Quoc Hung Tran, Does heterogeneity in transfer pricing regulation affect FDI? Session 1.3: Room A305 (level 3) Corruption, Governance, and Institutions Chairperson: Doan Quang Hung Nguyen Ngoc Minh, Estimate the economic cost of corruption Dang Quang Vinh, Impacts of corruption on provincial development performance in Vietnam Do Thi Thanh Huyen, How centrally-governed municipalities fair in citizens assessment of governance performance Doan Quang Hung, Sub-national institutions and firm survival in Vietnam 2

3 Session 1.4: Room A311 (level 4) Banking System 2 Chairperson: VoThi Quy Pham Van Dai, The determinants of Vietnamese banks lending behavior: a theoretical model and empirical evidence Nguyen Hoang Thuy Bich Tram, Assessing credit risk of commercial banks in Vietnam Kul B Luintel, Reforms, Incentives and Banking Sector Productivity Vo Thi Quy, The impact of organizational responses to complaints on post purchase behavioral intentions via recovery satisfaction The case of Saigon Commercial Bank 12: 15 13:30 Lunch 13:30 14:30 Plenary session 2 A103 Keynote speaker 2: Professor Takashi Kamihigashi, Kobe University, Japan Chair: Professor Pham Hoang Van 14:30 14:45 Introduction VEAM 2015 next organizers and for the announcement of 2015 Hue workshop 14:45 16:15 Parallel session II Session 2.1: Room A207 (level 1) Productivity and Growth Chairperson: Pham Dinh Long Nguyen Thi Toan, What factors affect to productive efficiency of Vietnamese automobile industry: an application of the stochastic frontiers Phan The Cong, Productivity growth of three sectors in vietnam during Pham Dinh Long, Innovation and productivity of vietnamese small and medium enterprises:firm level panel data evidence Session 2.2: Room A303 (level 2) Education Chairperson: Kaustav Misra Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Smaller classes - more graduates Marine Emorine, Impact of work activity on school 3

4 achievements. The case of Vietnam Kaustav Misra, Competition, market structure and market characteristics: Evidence from public school efficiency Session 2.3: Room A305 (level 3) Informal Sector, Mircrofinance Sector Chairperson: Nguyen Thi Thu Hang Rawaa Harati, Iluminating the Shadow Economy: Using lights from space to estimate a new measure of informal economic activity Le Thuy Linh, Heterogeneity of the informal sector in vietnam: a quali-quanti approach Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, A sustainable development model for organizations in the microfinance sector: The case of Vietnam Session 2.4: Room A311 (level 4) Financial Issue 1 Chairperson: Toan Phan Phu Kim Yen, Modeling of financial distress probability for vietnamese listed companies Nguyen Manh Hiep, External financing choice: The case of Vietnamese listed companies Toan Phan, Bubbles and overhang crashes 16:15 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 18:45 Parallel session III Session 3.1: Room A207 (level 1) Belief and Risk Chairperson: Nguyen Thi Lan Anh Graem Walker, The coevolution of beliefs and networks Pham Khanh Nam, Risk preferences and development revisited a risk-income paradox Keebong Park, Price movement after an information event detected by a new measure PIR Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, An early warning signal approach and its application to South East Asia Session 3.2: Room A303 (level 2) Firm Behaviour, Market Structure, and Consumer Behaviour, Data Collection 4

5 Chairperson: Tu Thuy Anh Tu Thuy Anh, The Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm revisited: an empirical analysis for Vietnamese firms Nguyen Thi Mai Trang, Factors affecting purchase intention for luxury goods: Evidence from Vietnam Junaid Ahmed, How Do Consumption Patterns of Foreign and Domestic Remittance Recipients And Non Recipients Compare_Evidence from Pakistan Le Dang Trung, Technology: The Ultimate Solution to High-Quality Data Session 3.3: Room A305 (level 3) Economic Policies, and Public Goods Chairperson: Tomoo Kikuchi Nguyen Hoai Bao, The effects of fiscal shock on the current account balance and real exchange rate in Vietnam Pham Do Chi, Coordinating fiscal and monetary policies in 2014 Le Vo Phuong Mai, Monetarism rides again? US monetary policy in a world of Quantitative Easing Tomoo Kikuchi, Global Public Goods and the Hegemonic Structure Session 3.4: Room A311 (level 4) Inequalities, Gender, Ethnicity 1 Chairperson: Ho Hoang Anh 19:15 21:15 Conference Dinner Carla Canelas, Gender and ethnicity in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Guatemala Le Vu Quan, Women entrepreneurship in rural Vietnam: success and motivational factors Ho Hoang Anh, Not a destiny: Ethnic diversity and redistribution reexamined 5

6 Wednesday, June, 25 th 2014 Location: Room A103, Room A207 (level - 1), Room A303 (level - 2), Room A305 (level 3), Room A311 (level - 4) 08: 30 09:30 Plenary session 3 A103 Keynote speaker 3: Dr. Dinh Truong Hinh, World Bank, United State Chair: Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh 09: 30-10:00 Coffee break 10: 00 12:00 Parallel session IV Session 4.1: Room A207 (level 1) FDI and Domesticc Economies 2 Chairperson: Hoa Thanh Le Quan Minh Quoc Binh, Bad FDI? Resource extraction and technology transfer Tran Thi Phi Phung, The granger causality relationship between FDI, GDP and international tourist arrivals Empirical evidence from 5 countries Hoa Thanh Le, The flows of FDI to Vietnam: From policy to implementation Session 4.2: Room A303 (level 2) FDI and Domestic Economies 3 Chairperson: Dinh Thi Thanh Binh Nguyen The Hoang, The impact of foreign direct investment on employment in developing countries Nguyen Phuong Quynh, Demonstration effects: Evidence from spatial foreign direct investment in Vietnam Pham Thi Bich Ngoc, Backward Spillover from different foreign direct investment origins in the light of geographical distance and technology intensity of input consumption Dinh Thi Thanh Binh, The survival of foreign firms in Vietnam Session 4.3: Room A305 (level 3) Economic Integration, Trade 6

7 Openness 1 Chairperson: Bach Ngoc Thang Nguyen Tu Anh, Trade facilitation in asean members - a focus on logistics policies toward asean economic community Khai Do Ba, Trade effects of Asean free trade area (AFTA) membership Nguyen Binh Duong, Future Vietnam-EU free trade agreement (Vietnam-EU FTA): An analysis of trade creation and trade diversion effects Bach Ngoc Thang, Firm dynamics in an entry liberalization period Session 4.4: Room A311 (level 4) Economic Integration, Trade Openness 2 Chairperson: Niem Le Duc Le Thai Ha, Trade openness, financial depth and economic development: Causality evidence from Asia - Pacific countries Pham Van Nho, Analyzing the determinants of services trade flows between Vietnam and European Union: gravity model approach Niem Le Duc, Why do similar countries trade with each other for the same goods? Nguyen Truong Toan, Evidence of trade diversion: Effects of EU antidumping duties on Vietnamese footwear 12: 00 13:15 Lunch 13:15 14:15 Plenary session 4 A103 Keynote speaker 4: Professor Yiannis Vailakis, Glasgow University, United Kingdom Chair: Professor Le Van Cuong 14:15 14:30 FIRST By Phung Duc Tung 14:30 15:30 Parallel session V Session 5.1: Room A207 (level 1) Financial Issue 2 Chairperson: Le Trung Thanh Le Trung Thanh, Multivariate copula: An application to emerging financial markets 7

8 Thai Ha-Huy, Arbitrage and asset market equilibrium in infinite dimensional economies with short-selling and riskaverse expected utilities Session 5.2: Room A303 (level 2) Rural Economies 1 Chairperson: Pham Quang Ngoc Hoa Thi Minh Nguyen, Food security and the poor: regional effects of rice export policy on households in Vietnam Pham Quang Ngoc, Household welfare and pricing of rice: does the large-scale field model matter for Vietnam Session 5.3: Room A305 (level 3) Credit Accessibility of SMEs Chairperson: Nhung Nguyen Thieu Dao, Accessibility to credit of small medium enterprises in Vietnam Nhung Nguyen, Credit accessibility and small and medium sized enterprises growth in Vietnam Session 5.4: Room A311 (level 4) Immigrants, and Expatriates Chairperson: Thai-Tan Tran Huyen Pham, Immigrant climate and domestic migration Thai-Tan Tran, Cross-cultural management: Understanding the cultural problems that expatriates are facing in Vietnam 15:30 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 17:30 Parallel session VI Session 6.1: Room A207 (level 1) Capital Management, Capital Market Chairperson: Nguyen Dinh Tho Tu Thi Kim Thoa, Relationship between working capital management and profitability Empirical evidence from Vietnamese listed firms Axel Demenet, Does managerial capital matter for microenterprises? Nguyen Dinh Tho, Antecedent and outcome of marketing capital 8

9 Session 6.2: Room A303 (level 2) Rural Economies 2 Chairperson: Tu Van Binh To The Nguyen, Agricultural extension and technical efficiency of tea production in northeastern Vietnam Nguyen Thi Dien, Turning land to livelihood: What are the socio-economic and institutional determinations of local land use in Red River Delta region? Tu Van Binh, Relationships between farming network linkages and performance: an investigation into pangasius farmers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam Session 6.3: Room A305 (level 3) Economic Integration, and Trade Openness 4 Chairperson: Nguyen Trung Kien Dang Vinh, Economic integration in the Asean: Evidence from micro-data Le Thanh Nhan, The impact of import competition on working hours in Vietnam Nguyen Trung Kien, Wage differentials between foreign invested and domestic enterprises in the manufacturing: Evidence from Vietnam Session 6.4: Room A311 (level 4) Economic Integration, and Trade Openness 5 Chairperson: Duong Thi Hieu 17:30 18:30 Parallel session VII Bui Duy Hung, Exchange rate pass-through in Vietnam Hoang Xuan Trung, The effects of trade liberalization on stunting of children in rural Vietnam Duong Thi Hieu, Testing sovereign contagion in European debt crisis Session 7.1: Room A207 (level 1) Inequalities, Gender, and Ethnicity 2 Chairperson: Phung Duc Tung Hoa Thi Minh Nguyen, Language, mixed communes and infrastructure: Sources of inequality and ethnic minorities in Vietnam Phung Duc Tung, Do the poorest ethnic minorities benefit 9

10 from a large-scale poverty reduction program? Evidence from Vietnam Session 7.2: Room A303 (level 2) Methodologies (Surveys, Categorical Principal Components Chairperson: Giovanni Merola Le Dang Trung, The importance of being surveyed: the representativeness and impact of the VHLSS Giovanni Merola, Using sparse categorical principal components to estimate asset indices new methods with an application to rural South East Asia 19:00 Room A103: Announcement of the VEAM 2014 Prize Winners SPONSORED BY 10