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Comparing estimated and self-reported mark-ups for formal and informal firms in an emerging market contextUsing a 10-year panel survey covering Vietnamese manufacturing firms, we consistently obtain firm-specific mark-up estimates and relate these to firm-level formality. The average firm-specific mark-up using a trans-log revenue production function...
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Are politically connected firms less constrained in credit markets?Utilizing a panel of over 2,000 Vietnamese SMEs over a 10-year period, we analyse the importance of being politically connected on both access and cost-of-credit obtained from formal financial institutions. Controlling for unobserved time-invariant...
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SOUTHMOD Country Report Viet Nam - VNMOD v1.0View the latest VNMOD country report here . This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work was carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in collaboration with KU Leuven and the project...
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Does managerial personality matter?Using novel data from micro, small, and medium firms in Vietnam, we estimate the relationship between behavioural and personality traits of owners/managers—risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness—and firm-level decisions. We extend the...
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Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: the role of management standards and innovationUsing a rich panel dataset of small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) active in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam, this paper investigates the drivers of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management...
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Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in VietnamSingle-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Vietnam. In these countries, party membership is potentially an important source of economic and social status. This paper investigates these effects and the mechanisms...
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The exporting and subcontracting decisions of Viet Nam's small- and medium-sized enterprisesThe exporting and subcontracting decisions of a panel of Vietnamese private small- and medium-sized enterprises is investigated. We find that among subcontractors, subcontracting is a supplementary rather than primary activity; the propensity to...
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Does Horizontal Inequality Matter in Vietnam?Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South
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Are politically connected firms less constrained in credit markets?Part of Book Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
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Firm-level corruptionThis paper adds to the recent literature on firm-level corruption by relying on rich data including detailed information on the purpose and amounts of bribe payments among Vietnamese micro, small, and medium firms. Using industry-location averages to...
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Seeking asylum from nowhere— how origin shapes the context of receptionAfghanistan is the world’s newest nowhere , a predicament that will shape the evacuation and resettlement prospects for millions of people for the...
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Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet NamViet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress. The proportion of poor households that are ethnic...
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SOUTHMOD country report Viet Nam - VNMOD v2.3View the latest VNMOD country report here . This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work has been carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management ( CIEM ) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and SASPRI...
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Impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and aid packagesIn view of the detrimental effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on household welfare, most countries implemented economic stimulus aid packages to support households. The extent to which these packages mitigated the pandemic’s adverse effects on households...
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Forecasting recovery from COVID-19 using financial dataWe develop a new methodology to nowcast the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and forecast its evolution in small, export-oriented countries. To this aim, we exploit variation in financial indexes at the industry level and relate them to the expected...
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