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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Đặng Vũ Thanh
DESCRIPTION:Does the feedback effect from foreign investment to environmental regulation matter? \nStudent: Đặng Vũ Thanh\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Đức Võ \nAbstract: \nForeign investment and environmental regulations are generally considered a two-way relationship. The effect of environmental regulation to foreign investment has been intensively examined in previous empirical studies.  However\, the reverse relationship has largely been ignored. As such\, this study is conducted to examined the feedback effects from foreign investment on environmental regulations under the influence of host countries’ political institutions for 26 OECD countries during the period 1990-2015. The study makes contributions to the literature in three dimensions. First\, this is one of the few studies examining the reverse relationship in the Pollution haven hypothesis. Second\, we use OECD’s newly-developed environmental policy stringency index\, which is believed to be a more comprehensive measure for environmental regulations than previous ones. Third\, we investigate the long-run relationship between foreign investment and environmental regulation\, which has largely been neglected in the literature.  Empirical results from this study are consistent with the firm lobby model\, indicating that foreign investment does exert negative influence on environment policies because of the lobbying effect. However\, if the number of legislative units is large enough\, the lobbying effect is negated and the governments are likely to impose stricter pollution tax to maximize social welfare. Analyzing the sub-samples\, the effects do not translate to the upper-income countries\, where FDI is found to improve environmental regulations. Results for the lower-income countries are consistent with the full sample. \nKeyword: Foreign investment\, Environmental regulation\, Pollution haven hypothesis\, Institution\, OECD \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP24 Đặng Cửu Trinh
DESCRIPTION:The impact of Decree 100 on the drinking and drunk-driving behavior in Ho Chi Minh City\nStudent: Đặng Cửu Trinh\, VNP 24 \nSupervisor: Dr. Võ Tất Thắng \nAbstract: \nThe study aims to investigate the impact of the new BAC limits law on the frequency of drinking and drunk-driving in Ho Chi Minh City. The new level of BAC is the main content of the new decree\, called shortly Decree 100. The government issued Decree 100 with an expectation that it will reduce the negative behavior after alcohol drinking\, especially drunk-driving behavior. The study uses the difference-in-difference approach to estimate the primary data collected from the online survey. The study finds that Decree 100 positively impacts the monthly average number of driving after drinking. The significant magnitude of the effect varies from -0.623 to -0.642. These values imply that Decree 100 is associated with a 0.623 to 0.642 reduction in the monthly average number of drunk-driving. However\, the relationship between Decree 100 and the monthly average number of drinking is not statistically significant. \nKeyword: Decree 100\, BAC\, Drinking\, Drunk-Driving\, difference-in-difference.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp24-dang-cuu-trinh/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Trần Anh Vũ
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change and The Global Coffee Industry: Factors That Promote Development in Coffee Production \nStudent: Trần Anh Vũ\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Hồ Quốc Thông \nAbstract: \nAgriculture is one of the industries that depend heavily on the climate. Due to various reasons\, climate changes lead to harmful phenomena\, such as pests\, drought\, floods\, affecting the agriculture sector. These phenomena not only cause destructive impacts on agriculture in general\, but also it has some environmentally sensitive influences on particular crops. Coffee is one of the significant contributors to many developing countries’ GDP\, such as Brazil\, Colombia\, Mexico\, Vietnam\, and Indonesia. \nPreviously\, existing studies focused on the impact of climatic factors – i.e.\, rainfall and temperature on coffee yield. Some examined both environmental factors and socio-economic factors affecting coffee production. These studies focus on the scope of research in certain areas\, whereas climate change happens across the globe \nFirstly\, this study focuses on the interaction between coffee production\, climatic\, economic\, environmental\, and geographic variables in the world’s six largest coffee producing and exporting countries. Multiple variables regression model is applied for evaluating the effects of these factors on coffee production in this case.. Data in the model is illustrated in panel data\, including climatic data (temperature\, precipitation)\, socio-economic variables\, environmental and geographic variables of six countries from 1991 to 2016\, which were collected from various secondary data sources. \nThe results achieved in this study are summarized as follows. The model shows that climatic variables such as temperature and precipitation are the essential climatic factors for coffee production as the results of previous studies indicate coffee’s sensitivity to seasonal temperature changes. The results show a significant effect of summer\, autumn\, winter temperatures on coffee production. In particular\, the impact of average temperature in summer/autumn on coffee production is a negative effect\, whereas the average temperature in winter has a positive relationship with coffee production. In terms of average rainfall\, the results show that the rainfall does not seem to affect significantly coffee production except for winter precipitation. Although\, in practice\, rainfall is extremely important for the growth of coffee trees. In addition\, some variables belonging to other groups of factors are also significant for coffee output. Specific results will be presented below. \nSecondly\, the research identifies the relationship of factors affecting the number of projects invested for development related to the coffee industry. Results from the Poisson model and Negative binominal model show that the factors: coffee harvested area\, coffee inventory\, CO2 emission\, GDP\, fertilizer price\, rural population are the factors that have significant impacts on the model. At the same time\, these factors positively impact the number of projects related to coffee. \nThirdly\, apply the multiplicative model to build prediction models for coffee production in Vietnam and Brazil based on historical data. The prediction model is based on a comparison of available observations and a predictive model of coffee yields in the two countries. The results of the Vietnamese model forecast are relatively good with deviations below 20%. \nFinally\, many solutions have been proposed to improve the coffee industry in the case of environmental climate changes\, fluctuation of socio-economic factors\, environmental and geographic elements. For example\, developing information systems helps the producers monitor and manage climate changes and farmers’ production costs. Other methods are proposed\, such as establishing a supply chain system to increase profits\, developing a coffee industry\, and building an effective commercial playground for this industry. Next\, the producing and exporting countries need to have reasonable development strategies and policies to stabilize the markets. Alternatively\, they can invest in research and development of efficient farm management services and systems. Besides that\, the government should consistently implement regulations and policies to create a compelling and fair working environment that focuses on protecting the environment. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-tran-anh-vu/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Trần Bùi Thị Hồng Hạnh
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe impact of financial inclusion on income inequality. The case of Asean plus six\nStudent: Trần Bùi Thị Hồng Hạnh\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Prof.Dr. Nguyen Trọng Hoài \nAbstract: \nThis thesis aims to study the relationship between financial inclusion and income inequality in ASEAN Plus Six. Using data from Global Findex Database of World Bank in period 2004-2017\, OLS finds out that financial inclusion can reduce income inequality. However\, when concerning the characteristic of countries\, FE regression points out the positive relation between number of bank branches per 100\,000 adults and income inequality is stronger than negative relation between number of ATMs pe 100\,000 adults and income inequality. While using GMM to avoid endogenous problem\, result shows that financial inclusion has weak impact on income inequality.\nThis thesis finds out that the relationship between inclusive financial system and income distribution is different between developing countries and developed countries. In developing countries\, raise of financial inclusion can increase income inequality. While in developed countries\, financial inclusion development can reduce income inequality ‘’ \nThis paper provides some evidences to show that in developing countries\, improving in number of bank braches raises income share of highest income group\, and reduces income share of lowest income group. And level of financial inclusion of developing countries is quite lower than  developed countries. \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-tran-bui-thi-hong-hanh/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Nguyễn Thiện Nhân
DESCRIPTION:The presence of global financial center and environmental degradation: Evidence from Asia-Pacific region. \nStudent: Nguyễn Thiện Nhân\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Dr. Nguyễn Hoài Bảo \nAbstract: \nThe world has observed the formation and advancement of metropolitan cities in the earliest twentieth century. The twenty-first century has witnessed a dramatical increase in the establishment of the global financial centre (GFC). London and New York claim the first and second major and largest centres in the world stage. Hongkong\, Singapore\, Shanghai\, Tokyo\, Sydney appear to be the main financial centres in the Asia-Pacific region. \nEstablishing a GFC appears to be an essential goal from emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region to support economic growth. The establishment of such a centre requires a multifaceted approach in which theoretical and practical aspects are important to be considered. The well-designed and comprehensive analyses of identifying determinants for a GFC are very limited\, in particular for the Asia-Pacific region. As such\, this study is conducted to examine and identify the fundamental determinants leading to the establishment of a GFC in the Asia-Pacific region. We identify 14 determinants from the current literature. We then construct 16\,384 models to consider the relevance and importance of each of these 14 determinants in the context of the Asia-Pacific region. The Bayesian averaging of classical estimates (BACE) is used with a sample of 35 Asia-Pacific for the 2007-2017 period. Findings from our initial analyses indicate that emerging and developing countries in the region should focus on the following four fundamental determinants: the freedom to trade internationally; market size; higher education and training\, and the size of the government. \nWe then extend our analysis using a more robust set of criteria and additional quantitative technique which is known as the weighted average least square. The size of the government appears to be relatively less important\, in contrast\, the other three components\, including (i) freedom to trade internationally; (ii) market size; (iii) higher education and training\, are the robustly fundamental determinants for the Asia-Pacific region. \nEmerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region have been putting great effort to achieve the right balance between the benefits of economic growth and the costs of environmental degradation. Establishing the GFC is considered as an effective mechanism to support economic growth. However\, the benefits from a GFC should not be at the expense of quality of the environment in order to achieve the so-called sustainable economic development. As such\, this study is then extended by applying the concept of the Kuznets environmental curve into a relatively new aspect of financial development in the Asia-Pacific region. Other previous papers use either stock market capitalization to GDP or stock market total value-traded to GDP as a proxy for financial development. This study is unique and different from any other papers. The index of financial development is developed based on the fundamental determinants identified from this study. On the sample of 26 countries in the region over the 2007-2017 period\, the long-term effect of financial development to environmental degradation are considered using long-term estimators such as the panel fully modified ordinary least square (PFMOLS)\, and panel autoregressive distributed lag (PARDL)\, including the pooled mean group model (PMGARDL); the mean group (MGARDL); the dynamic fixed effect estimator (DFEARDL) and the Panel smooth transition regression (PSTR). The second-generation Hurlin and Dumitrescu (2012) test is used in determining Granger causality between financial development and environmental degradation. Findings from our paper confirm an inverted U-shaped relationship between financial development and environmental degradation in the Asia-Pacific region. Economic growth and energy consumption are also responsible for the deterioration of environmental quality in the Asia-Pacific region. We then claim that the concept of the Kuznets curve can be applied to the context of financial development. We also find a bidirectional relationship between financial development and environmental degradation. On the ground of findings from this study\, several policy implications are provided for the governments in the emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region to consider. These important implications should be used to achieve the following two fundamental objectives. The first objective is to enhance and support national economic growth by establishing the global financial centre when desired. The second objective is to strike for the right balance between the benefits of financial development by establishing the GFC (to support economic growth) and the costs of environmental degradation. \nJEL: C11\, C33\, C34\, F38\, F64. \nKeywords: Bayesian model averaging\, IFC\, environmental quality\, financial development\, principle component analysis
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-nguyen-thien-nhan/
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SUMMARY:Thesis Public Defense | VNP25 Mai Kiên Trung
DESCRIPTION:The export sophistication and economic growth: Evidence from cross-country and panel analyses  \nStudent: Mai Kiên Trung\, VNP 25 \nSupervisor: Assoc.Prof.Dr. Phạm Đình Long \nAbstract: \nHausmann\, Hwang\, and Rodrik (2007) (HHR) argued that the export structure of a country has a vital role in economic development. They developed two indicators\, PRODY and EXPY\, that measure the income level of a good and country’s export basket\, respectively. The authors proved that higher EXPY would lead to faster subsequent economic growth. A majority of empirical papers have employed the widely used EXPY to draw their results\, but they refrain from discussing the features of the indicators. Huber (2017) paid his attention to the shortcomings of the indicator. In the present study\, the author considers three problems of HHR’s PRODY\, including the sample balancing\, the disaggregated level of goods\, and the calculation procedure. After that\, the resulting EXPY computed from the adjusted PRODY will be used to investigate the positive relationship between export sophistication and economic growth. The study uses the BACI dataset from CEPII that contains over 200 million disaggregated bilateral trade flows at HS 6-digits for over 200 countries from 1996 to 2018. The study confirms the main conclusion in HHR (2007)\, which claims that a country producing and exporting goods exported by rich countries tends to grow faster than a country specializes in other goods. Interestingly\, the present study finds that the magnitude of EXPY’s effect on growth is smaller than the one in HHR but more significant. The four 5-years sub-periods analysis estimated by the system-GMM method implies that a 10% increase in EXPY is associated with a 0.45 percentage point increase in growth rate.
URL:https://vi.vnp.edu.vn/event/thesis-public-defense-vnp25-mai-kien-trung/
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