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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 - Phạm Thị Vân
DESCRIPTION:Determinants of provincial competitiveness in Vietnam \nStudent: Phạm Thị Vân\, VNP-25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Phạm Khánh Nam \nAbstract: \nIn Vietnam\, the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) is used to assess the attractiveness of the locality to investors. However\, to date\, there have not been many domestic studies on PCI in general and on assessing the impact of factors affecting PCI in particular. Therefore\, this study was conducted to assess the impact of factors affecting the provincial competitiveness index. Through the aggregated data set and analysis of 63 provinces and cities in the country in the years 2016 to 2019\, the study has shown the impact of factors affecting the provincial\ncompetitiveness index and recommended a solution to improve the PCI index for localities.  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-pham-thi-van/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP - Nguyễn Thị Trà My
DESCRIPTION:The propensity of cosmetics consumption in Ho Chi Minh city after the COVID-19 \nStudent: Nguyễn Thị Trà My\, VNP \nSupervisor: Dr. Hồ Quốc Thông \nAbstract: \nBackground: In Vietnam\, where this business has the fastest growth rate when compared to the rest of Southeast Asia\, cosmetics is one of the fastest-growing industries. According to revenue figures\, this market generates an estimated VND 50\,000 billion in revenue each year\, which not only demonstrates the significant profit it generates but also the prominence of this sector globally commercial marketing. Due to the lasting effects of the Covid-19 outbreak on the world economy\, the cosmetics industry as well as many other industries experienced extreme hardship. Contrary to its initial status as a luxury good\, the consumption of cosmetic products dropped significantly due to the crisis. \nMaterials and Methods: An online questionnaires was administrated and sent to Ho Chi Minh’s consumers from 18 to 55 years old through social networks. The questions were related to the affection of the Covid-19 to consumers life and how they has adjusted their expenditure on cosmetics. Standard econometric models were employed to investigate the change in consumer perception and the consumption of cosmetic products. \nResults: A final working sample of 200 observations were obtained\, and all of respondents are cosmetic consumers consuming\, for  example\, beauty\, skin care and body products. As observed from the econometric model ‘s result\, key factors that have a significant impact on cosmetics consumption behavior are the number of persons that consumers contacted weekly\, age\, marital status and the change in income. In particularly\, cosmetic consumption of who are single and who are contacted more people weekly are tend to increase while those who married or contacted less people weekly is more likely to reduce their spending on cosmetic. Thus\, as consumer’s age and consumer’s income increase\, so does their expenditure on cosmetic. \nConclusions and implications: Both men and women have a need for cosmetics\, but single person and those who meet more people each week are the main consumers\, and the cosmetic consumption are increase as consumer’s age and consumer’s income increase. Once the isolation period following the Covid-19 epidemic has ended\, their demand for cosmetics has a tendency to increase again. Given that the majority of potential customers are single women or man who meet a lot of people each week and are highly concerned with their own health\, cosmetic companies must put a priority on ensuring consumer health and produce products with as few side effects as possible or natural cosmetics in order to draw in more clients. \nKeywords: cosmetic consumption\, Covid-19 epidemic affection
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp-nguyen-thi-tra-my/
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DTSTAMP:20260622T091859Z
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Mạc Lệ An
DESCRIPTION:Ownership structure and corporate default risk: Empirical evidence from Vietnam \nStudent: Mạc Lệ An\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Việt Quảng \nAbstract: \n Vietnam has long been well recognized as a transition frontier country mainly characterized by the dominance of state and family ownership and control in most listed corporations across different sectors. From that sense\, the study is inspired and motivated to investigate how the firm ownership structures should have an impact of on the corporate default risk\, or default probability\, in Vietnam. Using a sample panel data of 230 non-financial firms dataset of publicly traded corporations listed on the largest stock exchange in Vietnam for the sample period starting from the year 2012 to 2020\, the preliminary study shows a negative relationship between institutional\, foreign ownership and the probability of default\, but a positive between state\, family ownership\, and corporate default risk. Interestingly\, the findings reveal the non-linear relationship between state\, family ownership\, and the default probability. In particular\, State ownership enhances risk-taking behavior as the firms are encouraged to borrow more debt when the state ownership exceeds a specific threshold\, increasing corporate default probability. However\, family ownership is negatively associated with a probability of corporate default for firms that have full family control over the firm\, and then the risk is reduced.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-mac-le-an/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220218T000000
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DTSTAMP:20260622T091857Z
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 - Đào Nguyên Quỳnh Giao
DESCRIPTION:The impact of the financial behavior to bribery \nStudent: Đào Nguyên Quỳnh Giao\, VNP24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Thị Hồng Nhung \nAbstract: \nThis study discusses the impact of bribery on the financial behavior of SMEs in Vietnam. With observations of 166 SMEs across Vietnam\, statistical information on bribery (including the ratio of bribes to firm revenue\, known as bribery ratio and bribery frequency)\, Relationship\nRelations with government agencies\, Transparency of local government policies\, Informal payers and financial practices (including total expenditure\, total borrowing and total investment). Then\, this study deployed a set of empirical tests\, including Correlation Matrix\,  Regression t Test\, F-test\, Durbin – Watson multicollinearity test to test the relationship between variables as well as check the reliability of the results. This study found that bribery rate\, bribery frequency and informal expenditures had a positive effect on total spending and total investment and total borrowing. However\, the relationship with the government and the level of government  transparency have a negative impact on the financial behavior of SMEs. The research results can serve as a basis for the government to build a more transparent administrative apparatus\, contributing to improving the socio–economic life of Vietnam.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-dao-nguyen-quynh-giao/
CATEGORIES:BVLV
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Trần Thị Thanh Thảo
DESCRIPTION:The role of environment\, social and governance performance in enhancing firm performance: The US case \nStudent: Trần Thị Thanh Thảo\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Thị Hồng Nhung \nAbstract: \nEnvironmental\, social\, and corporate governance (ESG) are rapidly guiding principles for business success. However\, the major of previous researches just focused on examining one of three dimensions of ESG. In this research\, we take account of 297 firms with 1782 observations in the US’s S&P 500 list from 2015 to 2020 to investigate the influence of overall ESG and specific ESG dimensions on firm performance by using dynamic panel data techniques (System GMM model). Further analysis examines the interaction effect of environmentally sensitive sectors on the connection between ESG and Firm performance. Our empirical results reveal that companies with excellent ESG performance as a whole and its three components\, including environmental\, social\, and governance performance ratings\, have a positive effect on accounting-based financial performance (ROA). Moreover\, the regression results indicate that the companies operating in sectors that affect the environment usually negatively impact the firm operation. Finally\, we provide some proposals on the future direction of government building and sustainable growth of firms. \nKeywords: ESG\, firm performance\, ROA\, System GMM\, environmentally sensitive industries
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-tran-thi-thanh-thao/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Thị Xuân Thắm
DESCRIPTION:A study of happiness and institutional quality: international evidence\n \nStudent: Nguyễn Thị Xuân Thắm\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Hồ Quốc Thông \nAbstract: \nHuman happiness is a topic that always attracts researchers’ attention because happiness in life is considered an ultimate goal for individuals. Additionally\, the role of institutional quality in enhancing life satisfaction is especially concerned in recent years. To clarify that effect\, this study investigates the association between institutional quality and happiness for worldwide countries in the period from 2013 to 2020. The analysis utilizes unbalanced panel data from 204 countries with 1\,615 observations which are mainly taken from World Development Indicators and Worldwide Governance Indicators. Besides the Ordinary Least Square method\, Simultaneous Equations Model estimation is also employed with instrumental variables to deal with the possible endogeneity problem between happiness and institutional quality. For OLS estimation\, the results show that the government effectiveness and corruption control have positive impacts on happiness\, while political stability negatively affects happiness. However\, when applying the SIM method\, the findings evidence all indicators of institutional quality play important roles in improving happiness. Furthermore\, the validity of press freedom as an instrumental variable employed in the model is just shown in several cases\, as this instrument is weakly associated with institutional quality. Finally\, a negative association between the unemployment rate and happiness shows that joblessness makes individuals less satisfied with their life than those with higher employment rates. This study yields the policy implications that indicate government needs to concentrate on enhancing various dimensions of institutional quality to raise the level of residents’ happiness. Moreover\, the government needs to have more strategies to reduce the unemployment rate and support jobless employees to overcome the difficult time. \n\nJEL Classification: I31\, H10\nKeywords: institutional quality\, happiness\, quality of life\, instrument\, press freedom \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-thi-xuan-tham/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220215T000000
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 - Dương Kim Thanh
DESCRIPTION:Government support for SMEs innovations: The case of government financial support in Vietnam  \nStudent: Dương Kim Thanh\, VNP24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Thị Hồng Nhung \nAbstract: \nInnovation is an important context in the modern economic process\, and it refers to the acquisition and the implementation of new idea into new product or service\, leading to the realization of new profit and economic wealth. In the SMEs context\, the role of innovation becomes more important. This study is developed with the objective of exploring the government support towards the SMEs’ innovation in Vietnam. There are four research models to be developed with dependent variables are NPR – whether the firms delivered new products to the market\, PIM – whether the firms conducted any improvement for its current products\, and TEC – whether the firms adopted new technologies into its production and business process for its current products. Also\, the author calculates INV as sum of NPR\, PIM and TEC. Using Poisson regression with random and fixed effect\, it is identified that government support has either positive or negative impact on INV. The positive impact is recorded for Poisson regression with fixed effect while the negative impact is found for Poisson regression with random effect. The author also runs the Probit regression and obtained result shows that government support has positive and significant impact on NPR but it has negative and significant effect on PIM and TEC. The author also calculates the Propensity score and conducts the Propensity score matching and found that government support does not promote innovation. The policy implication is that the current supporting policies is not effective and inefficient and they should be re-designed. \nKeywords: SMEs\, innovation\, government support\, government ownership\, firm size\, firm age\, firm leverage
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-duong-kim-thanh/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Tôn Đức Thăng Long
DESCRIPTION:Spatial analysis of club convergence polarization in income across Vietnamese provinces \nStudent: Tôn Đức Thăng Long\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Lê Văn Chơn \nAbstract: \nIn the development process\, income inequality attracts a lot of attention\, most notably higher income hinders economic growth. There are various research papers examining absolute and conditional convergence through growth endogenous model. But the researchers use traditional regression methods that do not take into account the spatial factor. Even if spatial regression is used\, only absolute convergence is examined. This thesis sheds light on both absolute and conditional convergence through spatial regression models. This research also shows that there is a polarization of club convergence between regions. Seeking evidence that a trained workforce has an impact on income growth is not the same across regions. Aside from the technology gap is not uniform\, the absorption in the regions is dissimilar. Additionally\, the above new points\, an up-to-date analysis of this paper is the use of data visualization with multifarious charts and maps of Vietnam to elucidate the club convergence and the growth rate of the regions. Finally\, this research uses the AIC criterion to choose the most optimal spatial correlation matrix models\, which few research papers on spatial regression conduct\, especially on the topic of convergence growth.\nKey words: Convergence\, Absolute convergence\, Conditional convergence\, Club convergence\, Divergence\, Polarization\, Spatial Regression\, Technology absorption. \nJEL codes: F43; C31; E13; H41; J21; J82; O47; O43
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-ton-duc-thang-long/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Lê Minh Nhi
DESCRIPTION:Cyber risk behaviors in Vietnam\n \nStudent: Lê Minh Nhi\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Phạm Khánh Nam \nAbstract: \nCybersecurity has become a significant and urgent concern of technology-based economies in general. Humans might be considered the weakest link in cybersecurity because human errors could negatively affect technical security solutions. To determine the human factor in cybersecurity\, we need to understand the factors that affect cybersecurity behaviors. This thesis identifies some predictors of online hedging behaviors based on existing research on risk perception and cybersecurity. Also\, we highlight the importance of studies by demonstrating the influence of individual differences on actual behavioral decisions based on the survey of Vietnamese users’ behaviors with 286 participants from 15 to 60 years old. The study focuses on three individual differences: demography\, psychological factors\, and digital skill inequality. The multivariate probit modeling approach helps to clarify the correlation between the involvement of different users’ habits and cyber risks. The results support the argument that digital skill awareness has a meaningful influence on cybersecurity behaviors. On the other hand\, users have a greater need to use the Internet and engage in online activities that quickly cause dangerous acts in cyberspace.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-le-minh-nhi/
CATEGORIES:BVLV
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220214T000000
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Thị Liễu
DESCRIPTION:The determinants of female labor force participation in Vietnam: The role of the globalization \nStudent: Nguyễn Thị Liễu\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Prof.Dr. Nguyễn Trọng Hoài \nAbstract: \nThe main objective of this research is to examine whether the globalization brings about the impacts on FLFP. The research data is collected from Vietnam Statistical Yearbook by the General Statistical Official of Vietnam (GSO) and the Provinces Statistical Yearbook from 2010 to 2019 during the period from 2010 to 2019. Throughout the paper\, we collect variables including FLFP\, foreign direct investment\, trade openness\, growth rate of gross region domestic products (GRDP)\, inflation (CPI)\, Total fertility (TFR)\, Female unemployment (FUR)\, and Urbanization rate (URBAN) of 63 provinces in Vietnam after considering missing data problem. The findings show that Trade openness led to higher female labor force participation\, showing the integral role of globalization in increasing job opportunities for women. Second\, Although FDI inflows into Vietnam have grown since our country opened up to international integration\, FDI has had a negative impact on female labor force participation. This finding is probably related to the transfer of comparative advantage from labor to technology-intensive production. \nKeywords: Globalization\, Foreign direct investment\, Trade openness\, Female labor force participation \nJEL: F66\, J21\, J82
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-thi-lieu/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Trần Phước Bảo Minh
DESCRIPTION:The influence of vaccination on business confidence during COVID-19 pandemic \nStudent: Trần Phước Bảo Minh\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Thị Hồng Nhung \nAbstract: \nAt the time of this research\, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 5 million lives and pushed the global economy into a deep recession with 97 million people around the world into poverty on less than $1.9 a day\, accompanied by a remarkable increase in  unemployment rate. Is there any way to reduce this negative impact on the economy? In “General theory of employment\, interest\, and money” published in 1936\, Keynes used the concept of the “animal spirit” to emphasize the importance of business confidence in understanding business cycle and economic fluctuations. Confidence was also known as the root of the global financial crisis in 2008. But what determines business confidence? Using the data of 22 EU countries\, this study found that vaccination is effective in boosting business confidence during the COVID-19 pandemic. This relationship is even stable and highly statistically significant across many robustness tests. Furthermore\, the study also found that the positive effect of vaccination on business confidence is even larger when the containment policies is tightened\, which highlights the importance of vaccination in maintaining business confidence. To the best of our knowledge\, this is the first study to discover the nexus between vaccination and business confidence. \nJEL classification: E22\, E23\, E70\, H32\, I18 \nKeywords: vaccination\, business confidence\, lockdown policies\, COVID-19 pandemic\, behavioral economics. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-tran-phuoc-bao-minh/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Hoàng Thị Ngọc Thắng
DESCRIPTION:Impact of the free trade agreements on Vietnam’s pharmaceutical import: An application of the gravity model \nStudent: Hoàng Thị Ngọc Thắng\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Hồ Hoàng Anh \nAbstract: \nThis paper evaluates the impact of free trade agreements on the pharmaceutical imports of Vietnam. We apply the gravity model to a panel data of 112 countries for the period 2000-2018. To solve two potential problems of the gravity model created by heteroscedasticity and zero trade values\, we employ the standard Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator. We also add the fixed effect and lagged effect in the model to mitigate potential endogeneity. Our results demonstrate that free trade agreements can increase Vietnam’s pharmaceutical imports. However\, each separate agreement has a different impact. In addition\, we find that the impacts of trade agreements can change over\ntime. \nKeywords: FTA\, Pharmaceutical import\, Gravity model\, PPML\nJEL code: F13; I18; \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-hoang-thi-ngoc-thang/
CATEGORIES:BVLV
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Phúc Phương Vy
DESCRIPTION:Economic development and PM2.5 emissions: Empirical evidence from Vietnam’s industrial zones \nStudent: Nguyễn Phúc Phương Vy\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Phạm Khánh Nam \nAbstract: \nThis thesis investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. The research uses satellite data to estimate panel data models of 245 industrial zones from 1998 to 2016. The regression results show that there is an inverted Ushaped curve between economic development and emissions of fine particulate matter. In addition\, there is evidence that there exists a spillover effect of fine particulate matter density between neighboring industrial zones. \nKeywords: Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)\, Spatial econometric approach\nJEL: C23\, Q53 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-phuc-phuong-vy/
CATEGORIES:BVLV
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Krasnoyarsk:20220117T000000
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Đoàn Hồ Đan Tâm
DESCRIPTION:The impact of human development on corruption in Vietnamese provinces: A spatial econometrics analysis \nStudent: Đoàn Hồ Đan Tâm\, VNP26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Lê Thái Thường Quân \nAbstract: \nWhile there is long interest in the impact of corruption\, the research on determinants of corruption is still less\, especially the effect of human development on corruption. This research examines the impact of human development on corruption at the provincial level of 63 provinces in Vietnam for the period 2011–2020. Corruption is measured using two alternative indicators: The Control of Corruption from Provincial Governance Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) and the Informal Charges from the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI). Human development is measured using income per capita\, literacy ratio\, and training ratio. The spatial panel techniques are used to handle possible spatial dependencies with contiguity and distance–based weight matrices. The results show that income per capita has a strong effect on reducing corruption in the case of Control of Corruption; however\, it increases the corruption in the case of Informal Charge. Education\noverall has the effect of reducing corruption\, though small. Spatial effects are also confirmed for both indicators of corruption\, though with different specifications. This research contributes to the field of empirical study on determinants of corruption with up–to–date data for the context of Vietnam and using spatial econometrics approach for analysis. \nKeywords: Corruption\, Human Development\, Spatial Effect\, Vietnam \nJEL classification: D73\, C2\, O1 \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-doan-ho-dan-tam/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 - Võ Phước Trí
DESCRIPTION:Tracking growth during the new wave of COVID-19 using Google Trends \nStudent: Võ Phước Trí\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Trần Thị Tuấn Anh \nAbstract: \nThe immediate impact of coronavirus requires the high-frequency data to adapt well to the variation of the macro-economy. Applying the Artificial Neural Network algorithm\, this thesis aims to construct a Weekly Tracker\, which is used for tracking the growth rate\, from the Google Trends dataset. Compared to the Autoregressive model\, this thesis shows that predictions from the Artificial Neural Network algorithm outperform in leading information of growth rate movement. The Weekly Tracker suggests that the recovery of 22 economies in the sample has been constrained during the new wave of Covid-19. The growth rate estimate may be still positive\, but the trend is horizontal\, even in developed countries. And with the Shapley value analysis\, this thesis finds out Consumption topics and categories\, especially trade and services\, are the variables that have a key role for the recovery; Economic Anxiety topics and categories are extremely popular during the coronavirus spread out\, especially in the beginning\, and have large negative contributions; number searches of Labor Market and Health Condition topics and categories also increase during the pandemic and they contribute positively to the Weekly Tracker. Focusing on Vietnam\, this thesis finds out the down trend of the Weekly Tracker during the social-distancing and locked down period in Ho Chi Minh City\, same as the movement of Consumption searches number. \nJEL Classification: O11\, C14\, C45 \nKeywords: growth rate\, pandemic time\, Covid-19 pandemic\, neural network\, machine learning\, Shapley values \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-vo-phuoc-tri/
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UID:23097-1642377600-1642377600@vi.vnp.edu.vn
SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 - Trịnh Quốc Minh
DESCRIPTION:Financial development and energy consumption: Which causes which in the Asia Pacific region?  \nStudent: Trịnh Quốc Minh\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Võ Hồng Đức \nAbstract: \nThe Asia Pacific region has been playing an essential role in global economic growth. Among other factors\, financial development\, accounting 37 percent of global banking profit\, has played a crucial role in this economic growth. Also\, in supporting this economic growth\, energy consumption from the region accounted for more than half of global energy demand in 2016. While the nexuses between finance–growth and between energy–growth have been widely conducted\, the inter–relationship between financial development and energy consumption appears to be underexamined in current empirical analyses\, in particular for the Asia Pacific region. This study aims to examine the long–term impact of financial development on energy consumption and their Granger causality based on the sample of 21 Asia Pacific countries during the 1990–2019 period. The long–run estimator –the fully modified ordinary least squares\, is utilized in this paper. Various indicators are used as the proxies for financial development to ensure the robustness of the findings. We find significant evidence on the positive long–run effect of financial development on energy consumption. In addition\, a bi–directional Granger causality between financial development and energy consumption is found. Various policy implications have emerged based on the empirical findings of this paper. \nKeywords: CAPM\, multi factor asset pricing models\, utilities\, ASEAN 5\, quantile regression\, Risk–Return framework. \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-trinh-quoc-minh-2/
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UID:23093-1640822400-1640822400@vi.vnp.edu.vn
SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 - Trần Thị Thuận Trinh
DESCRIPTION:Bank efficiency in vietnam under the influence of merge and acquisition between 2010 and 2020 \nStudent: Trần Thị Thuận Trinh\, VNP24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Hồ Quốc Thông \nAbstract: \nMerge and acquisition are a consequence of economic growth overtime. It may be due to competition\, the growth of foreign direct and indirect investment flows as well as the proactive integration with the economy. It is observable that when the economy experiences significant variation of growth\, M&A appears to be more active. However\, there is heterogeneity of bank performance due to M&A.\nThe main objective of this study is to analyze factors that affect the performance of commercial banks in Vietnam pre and post M&A from 2010 to 2020. The study uses balanced panel data of all 27 commercial banks in Vietnam over 11 years between 2010 and 2020. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique and Pooled Ordinary Least Squared were employed to calculate the technical efficiency of commercial banks and analyze the variation of efficiency level. The main finding is that there exists room for banks to improve their performance. As well\, M&A is an important efficiency determinant. The study also suggested several solutions to possibly improve the performance of commercial banks in Vietnam. \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-tran-thi-thuan-trinh/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Ngô Quỳnh Hoa
DESCRIPTION:Using Online Prices for Inflation Estimation and Pricing Behaviour Research: A Case Study from Vietnamese Multi-channel Retailers during the COVID-19 Pandemic  \nStudent: Ngô Quỳnh Hoa\, VNP 26 \nSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Nguyễn Trọng Hoài & Dr. Matthias Rieger \nAbstract: \nThis thesis examines the potential of using online pricing data from multi-channel retailers for economic research during the pandemic time. It describes the method of collecting data through web-scraping techniques in two of the largest retailers in Vietnam during its first “true” wave of COVID-19 in 2021 and discusses the benefits and challenges of this approach. Data were collected daily across 167 days and from 2\,398 product items\, for a total of 396\,335 observations. Despite limitations such as the short time frame of the research and the fluctuations in the number of data points gathered during the lock-down\, the thesis shows that the online price index is capable of tracking the inflation dynamics during the pandemic. The approach can be helpful when price data cannot be collected in person due to lockdowns. Regressions of price dynamics on pandemic variables indicate that the pandemic trajectory\, including the total number of vaccinations and the lockdown measures\, correlates strongly with the discounting benefits consumers can enjoy\, particularly on essential products like foods. Still\, no evidence for the correlation between pandemic variables and inflation has been found within the scope of this research.\nJEL codes: D12; D22; D40; D50; D80\nKeywords: Inflation; online price index; e-commerce; multi-channel retailers; pricing behavior; pan-demic; Vietnam. \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-ngo-quynh-hoa/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Hà Đăng Khoa
DESCRIPTION:Does the student’ major choice for higher education matter their early career’s earning? Evidence from Vietnam \nStudent: Nguyễn Hà Đăng Khoa\, VNP 26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Trương Đăng Thụy \nAbstract: \nThis thesis investigates the effect of major choice on students’ earnings after they have graduated. Using Data from the Labor Force Survey 2019\, we focus on young graduates who are from 21 to 33 years old. The study applied the Heckman sample selection model which corrects the bias of “omitted variables” for the unobserved factors. The model estimates the earnings equation and explains the decision to participate into the labor market of individuals. Results from the observed earnings equation show that graduates who study in Biology\, Agriculture\, Law and Education see their earnings after school less than their Engineer & Technology major base group by 8\,1%\, 12\,4%\, 12\,1% and 6\,2%. On the other hand\, young graduates in Defense & Security and Creative art & Design gain higher earnings than the base group at 16\,5% and 7\,0%\, respectively. \nKeywords: Wage\, Heckman selection model\nJEL: J31\, C24 \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-ha-dang-khoa/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Lê Hồng Loan
DESCRIPTION:Factors affecting employees’ job duration and their decision to quit job in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam \nStudent: Nguyễn Lê Hồng Loan\, VNP 26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Trương Đăng Thụy & Dr. Matthias Rieger \nAbstract: \nCurrent employee turnover surveys focus on predicting turnover by measuring demographics\, work environment\, organizational commitment\, and alternative job opportunities. The analytical technique commonly used in these studies is logistic regression that does not incorporate time as a variable of interest. Therefore\, this paper uses a survival analysis technique with a time variable to test the turnover model with a sample of 312 employees from various industries in Ho Chi Minh City. The estimates of the survival function and the risk indicate that with the increase in time\, the likelihood of staying with the company decreases sharply in the short term\, but after a particular time\, the risk of leaving the job disappears. The analytical method is selected through hypothesis evaluation of Cox PH model\, distribution model test. The test shows that the parametric method with exponential distribution provides a rational analysis for the turnover model. In particular\, factors such as the number of dependents\, years of experience\, management interest\, salary\, and emerging job replacement opportunities help predict turnover while happiness at work is significantly not. The results from the parametric model regression are consistent with previous studies on working environment factors\, organizational commitment\, and alternative job opportunities that have a strong influence on employee turnover. The implication of these findings is to help organizations plan and implement employee retention policies that are appropriate over time. \nKeywords: Labour economics\, Human behaviours\, Job satisfaction\, Voluntary turnover\, Alternative job opportunity\, Human resources development\, Job duration\, Survival model. \nJEL codes: E24; J21; J63; M51 \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-le-hong-loan/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 - Lê Thị Vân Anh
DESCRIPTION:Employee’s decision to quit: A case study at Cho Ray Hospital \nStudent: Lê Thị Vân Anh\, VNP 24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Trương Đăng Thụy \nAbstract: \nThis study conducted a survey of employees of Cho Ray Hospital in 2020 to examing the determinants of job quit. Two decision variables are examined\, including employees’ plan to quit in the next 12 months\, and the decision to accept a hypothetical offer with salary levels higher  than their current salary. Several independent variables were used to examine the decision to quit\, including job characteristics\, working conditions\, employees’ family circumstances\, and individual characteristics. A logistic regression is applied for both dependent variables. The analyses indicates some important findings and policy implications. \nThe first important finding is that salary at Cho Ray Hospital is not a key driver of job quit. In all models\, increase in the current salary does not result in higher probability of job quit. This implies that increase in current salary at Cho Ray Hospital may improve the living standard of their staffs\, but this should not be the key policy to prevent job quit. Second\, job satisfaction is the key factor that affect employees’ decision to quit. The analysis reveals that the probability of job quit is quite high for the group of employees who have low level of job satisfaction\, while this probability is quite low for those who have high job satisfaction. This implies that improving job satisfaction should be the key policy in preventing job quit. Finally\, employees with more dependands have higher probabilities of job quit\, probably because of the pressure of earning their living. This helps Cho Ray Hospital identify the group of employees who have high potential of quitting their job. \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-le-thi-van-anh/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Phú Quốc
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence and unemployment: An international evidence \nStudent: Nguyễn Phú Quốc\, VNP 26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Võ Hồng Đức \nAbstract: \nThe term artificial intelligence (AI) was first defined in 1956 by John McCarthy as “a machine that behaves in ways that would be called intelligent if a human were so behaving” or “the science and engineering of creating intelligent machines”. The initial study and its modest achievements of AI with mere pre-programmed performances remained far beyond human intellectual abilities\, though the discipline functioned as a very foundation for further development in the field. \nNowadays\, modern information technologies and the advent of cognitive machines powered by AI have powerfully transformed people’s life and work. While AI can amplify productivity in some industries\, there are instances where they can take over human work and revolutionize occupations to some degree. This paper scrutinizes the possible influence of AI on unemployment using a broad database of AI-related patents in 40 developed and emerging markets from 2000 to 2019. The study employs a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model to analyze the relationship between AI and unemployment under various inflation levels. The study contributes to the existing literature with several findings. First\, findings from our analysis confirm the non-linear relationship between AI\nand unemployment depending on the threshold of inflation. In general\, AI increases unemployment until a certain threshold of inflation is attained\, then the disclosed ascendancy reduces its effect afterwards. Second\, the smooth mechanism employed in this analysis can capture individual estimates varying among countries over time. Finally\, this pioneering research extends the literature coverage to provide evidence on both developed and emerging economies. \nKeywords: Artificial intelligence (AI)\, patents\, unemployment rate\, panel smooth threshold regression (PSTR)
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-phu-quoc/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP26 - Nguyễn Thị Thúy Ngân
DESCRIPTION:Willingness to pay for renewable energy: A case study in HCMC\, Vietnam \nStudent: Nguyễn Thị Thúy Ngân\, VNP 26 \nSupervisor: Dr. Trương Đăng Thụy \nAbstract: \nThis research estimates willingness to pay for renewable energy and examines its determinants by using the Discrete Choice Experiment. The data was collected in 2020 from 286 households with electricity connections in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam. In addition to Conditional Logit as the standard model\, Mixed Logit and Latent Class are applied in this study to fix its limitations. Several outstanding findings are presented as follows. Firstly\, an explicit linear relationship is found between the value of WTP and the increase in RE share. Secondly\, similar to previous literature\, solar energy is the most preferred RE source; however\, the WTP for RE generated from biomass exceeds that from wind\, although knowledge of wind energy is more popular than biomass through statistics\, implying a huge potential for development of biomass energy projects. Furthermore\, two different latent classes are identified\, including awareness of wind and biomass energy\, home ownership\, the number of people at home during the day and the total times of outage. Noticeably\, there is no relationship between the WTP for clean energy and income\nfound in this study\, while almost all research found a positive correlation. The estimated results show comparative similarities in all three models\, indicating the high reliability of research results. \nKeywords: renewable energy resources\, willingness to pay\, choice experiment method\, conditional logit model\, mixed logit model\, latent class analysis \nJEL classification: O13; P28 ; Q42.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp26-nguyen-thi-thuy-ngan/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 - Võ Thành Luân
DESCRIPTION:The impact of currency devaluation on macroeconomic indicators \nStudent: Võ Thành Luân\, VNP 24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Võ Hồng Đức \nAbstract: \nThis dissertation examines the impact of currency devaluation on major macroeconomic indicators including real effective exchange rate\, trade balance\, inflation\, foreign direct investment inflows\, and gross domestic product. The study aims to answer the central question\, “How is each macroeconomic indicator impacted when a country devaluates its currency?” \nThe sample of nine emerging Asian countries\, including India\, Indonesia\, Jordan\, Korea\, Malaysia\, Pakistan\, the Philippines\, Thailand\, and Vietnam is used. The annual time series data were collected over a period from 1996 to 2019. This study uses the panel vector autoregression (PVAR) approach within a generalized method of moments (GMM) framework to investigate the relationship between these macroeconomic indicators dynamically using the impulse response functions and variance decomposition. \nOur empirical findings suggest that currency devaluation will boost the trade balance while also improves output growth. However\, the negative consequence is that currency devaluation will result in an increase in inflation. The results also reveal that the currency devaluation is the most important element in explaining inflation fluctuations. In addition\, the positive impact of currency devaluation on attracting foreign direct investment is found. Moreover\, findings confirm that macroeconomic factors such as the balance of trade\, FDI inflows and consumer price index explain significantly the change in exchange rate. \nOn the ground of these empirical findings\, policy implications have emerged. As a result\, we consider that it is necessary to put the exchange rate in the context of the interplay with other macroeconomic indicators in order to manage the exchange rate. We recommend that it is necessary to pursue the objectives of stabilizing the exchange rate and controlling inflation. These objectives should be taken into consideration in order to improve the purchasing power of the currency in contrast to other foreign currencies. \nKeywords: Currency Devaluation\, Macroeconomic indicators\, Emerging Asian\, Panel VAR\, GMM-System\, Impulse Response Functions\, Variance Decomposition.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-vo-thanh-luan/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP23 - Vương Ngọc Vy Vân
DESCRIPTION:Does the EU poverty indicator for 2020 Target disadvantage the elderly population? \nStudent: Vương Ngọc Vy Vân\, VNP 23 \nSupervisor: Dr. Võ Tất Thắng \nAbstract: \nThe EU has used the AROPE – at risk of poverty or social exclusion as the key indicator in the last decade to montior their poverty and social inclusion progress against the Europe 2020 Strategy. As the strategy’s period recently ends\, the poverty reduction target is likely to be the only unachievable one. This paper analyses the AROPE to examine the\nhypothesis of medical expense exclusion in the poverty calculation leading to the elderly poverty underestiment. This incidence\, in turn\, can cause the policy’s lack of attention to older people\, so contributing to the objective failure. Data were derived from Eurostat and the SHARE – Survey of Health\, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Wave 7. Although healthcare cost is proved to correlate to the poverty\, it is not considered as a key factor in AROPE composition. By addressing the impoverishment effect of healthcare out-of-pocket payment on the elderly headcount poverty ratios in 12 countries\, the study shows that the higher the poverty bar is lifted from 5-10-20 euros per day\, the more severe the impact is. Together\, this research provide an untapped viewpoint for the Europe 2020 final\nassessment later\, to consider healthcare costs in the poverty indicator. \nJEL Classification: J14\, I15\, N34\nKeywords: elderly poverty\, healthcare out-of-pocket payment\, impoverishment effect\, Lorenz-curve regression
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp23-vuong-ngoc-vy-van/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 Nguyễn Võ Hoàng
DESCRIPTION:The impacts of budget policy on economic growth of cities and provinces of the Mekong River Delta\n(2005-2018) \nStudent: Nguyễn Võ Hoàng\, VNP 24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Trương Đăng Thụy \nAbstract: \nWe conduct this study in order to evaluate the impact of budget policy on Vietnamese economic growth. However\, due to the limit of time\, this paper limits the scope of the study to the 13 Mekong Delta provinces from the period 2005 to 2018. \nAccording to the definition of capital expenditure\, we believe that if the proportion of State expenditure is highly concentrated on capital expenditure would cause positive impacts on economic growth. Hence\, the first goal of our study is to test whether or not the higher share of local government capital expenditure cause a positive impacts on economic growth of cities and provinces of the Mekong River Delta. Secondly\, we also test if the higher share of local government own source revenue cause a positive impacts on economic growth of cities and provinces of the Mekong River Delta. However\, in Vietnam\, the index of the size of local revenue is not considered a good indicator of decentralization. Nowadays\, local revenue has always been imposed by the Central government; therefore\, it does not reflect correctly the local autonomy. Therefore\, in this study we are more interested in the allocation of local government’s budget on capital expenditure to analyze the effect of capital expenditure on economic growth.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-nguyen-vo-hoang/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Nguyễn Thị Thu Thanh
DESCRIPTION:Corporate governance\, diversification strategies and firm performance: Evidence from listed companies on Ho Chi Minh stock exchange \nStudent: Nguyễn Thị Thu Thanh\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Việt Quảng \nAbstract: \nThis study evaluated the effects of internal corporate governance to the levels of diversification in Vietnam\, a developing country in Asia\, and explored the effectiveness of the diversification strategy to firm performance. The data of 111 listed firms on HOSE from 2010 to 2019 was collected. By using OLS\, FEM\, REM\, the study concluded agency theory could explain the relationship between corporate governance and diversification in case of Vietnam. The relationship between CEO’s ownership or board size and diversification was not significant\, while the duality in position of CEO\, board independence and blockholder had negative impact on the degree of diversification. This study also contributed some practical results in Vietnam market that the most diversified companies will significantly increase the firm value by taking advantage of corporate governance. \nKeywords: Corporate governance\, diversification\, firm performance. \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-nguyen-thi-thu-thanh-2/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Trương Hoàng Yến
DESCRIPTION:Trade liberalization and food security: A new approach with global food security index \nStudent: Trương Hoàng Yến\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Phạm Thị Bích Ngọc \nAbstract: \nFree trade has been still a controversial issue in policies aimed at improving the well-being of nations\, of which the fundamental demand is food security. This study estimates the impact of trade liberalization on food security\, measured by the global food security index (GFSI)\, for 109 countries in a panel framework over the period 2012–2018 determined by data availability. The main contribution to the existing literature is a causal impact at an overall level of food security instead of each of its dimensions. The system GMM estimator was employed to account for unobserved heterogeneity and potential endogeneity of the explanatory variables. The result indicated that trade openness had a positive and statistically significant effect on GFSI. In particular\, one unit change in trade openness was associated with an average of 0.13 unit increase in the overall GFSI in the long run. The food security’s composite indicator was also positively affected by cereal area harvested and level of economic development. While FDI net inflows\, rural population\, armed conflict\, and inflation drove a reduction in the GFSI. Landlocked countries were found to be less food-secure than others. Moreover\, sensitivity analysis of alternative measures of openness further lent support to the idea that both trade volume and open policy environment positively impacted food security.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-truong-hoang-yen/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Nguyễn Thị Thùy Trang
DESCRIPTION:Corporate bond market boom and its implication: Empirical evidence real estate firm Vietnamese \nStudent: Nguyễn Thị Thùy Trang\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Vũ Việt Quảng \nAbstract: \nThis study tries to examine the direct impact of “corporate bond market boom”(bond boom) on firm performance of sixty listed real estate company on both HOSE and HNX in the 2015-2019 period. Bond issuance is an effective capital mobilization channel in the context of tightened credit by the State Bank in the real estate sector since 2018. However\, the massive and uncontrolled bond issuance in recent years can bring negative effects on firm performance of real estate companies in particular and the whole economy in general. Economic experts are also concerned that\, if this situation lasts too long\, the consequences for the following years will be very serious. However\, whether the “corporatebond market boom” actually affects the real estate firms performance will be clarified in this research paper. Several descriptive statistic results depict that the relationship of massive bond issuance and firm performance (measured by ROE\, ROA) is negative\, but with TobinQ is not statistically significant. Differences in differences model with fixed effect technique is used to estimatethis relationship. Similar to the findings of previous empirical studies\, the regression results of this researchillustrate the direct pessimistic impact of “corporatebond market boom” on firm performance over the post-2018 period. \nKeywords: “corporate bond market boom” \, firm performance\, differences in differences. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-nguyen-thi-thuy-trang/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Kiều Công Bằng
DESCRIPTION:The effect of exchange rate volatility on the exports of Southeast Asian countries to North America countries for period 2000-2018 \nStudent: Kiều Công Bằng\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Nguyễn Trọng Hoài \nAbstract: \nThis study estimates the impact of real exchange rate volatility on the exports of ten Southeast Asian Countries to three North American countries for the period 2000-2018. With the trend of regional integration and expanding trade cooperation\, these ASEAN countries have an export volume which having been creased continuously to the Northern American countries such as the US\, Canada\, Mexico which belong to NAFTA in recent years. This research uses three measures in static and dynamic panel model for estimating the relationship between real exchange rate volatility and export of ten ASEAN countries to three Northern  American countries over period 2000:M1 to 2018:M12 which is fixed effect\, random effect\, System generalized method of moments (S-GMM). Further\,  determining real exchange rate volatility in this paper focus on three methods\, which are Absolute of real exchange rate\, Moving average standard deviation (MASD)\, Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity GARCH(1\,1). It is illustrated that this study finds out that the exchange rate volatility has a significant negative impact to export in ten Southeast Asian Countries to 3 North American countries when it is determined by absolute\, MASD methods\, and has opposite results when it is calculated by GARCH(1\,1) methods. Besides\, the Term of trade has an inverse effect on ten ASEAN’s export. \nJEL Classification: G28\, I25 \nKeywords: Exchange rate volatility\, Exports\,  ASEAN countries\, Northern American countries\, Panel data set \n  \n 
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-kieu-cong-bang/
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