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DEPOCEN has conducted research projects on a wide range of issues from macroeconomic policies, public finance, public policy, corporate innovation and competitiveness, econometric modelling and forecasting, trade liberalization, public service, to state-of-the-art impact evaluation of intervention programs in poverty reduction, household welfare, education, public health, water supply and sanitation, and survey methods. Our research outputs have been published in international refereed journals.

DEPOCEN has signed strategic partnership agreements with a number of international think-tanks, such as Oxford Economics (UK) and the Korean Institute of Economic Policy (South Korea). DEPOCEN has also established partnerships with internationally-known institutions including the University of Lancaster, the Institute of Development Studies under the University of Sussex, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne-CES, Maison des Sciences Economiques, and the Policy Studies Institute. DEPOCEN since 2014 has become an institution member of the EGAP network (http://e-gap.org/), an international network specialised in survey and impact evaluation managed by the University of Columbia and University of California at Berkeley. Since 2008 we have been the organiser and host of the Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (http://www.veam.org). We are also the founding member of the International Society of Vietnam Economist (http://www.isve.info)

Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from Rural Vietnam

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper implements the conceptual framework of Carter and Barrett (2001, 2006) that identifies the link between assets and household well-being transitions. I employ household panel data from Vietnam collected in two years 2007 and 2008 as foreign...

Sovereign Default and Private Government Information

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper develops a model of sovereign debt in which the government has some private information about the domestic economy. Sovereign borrowing is sustainable without enforcement, as repayment is a costly signal about the hidden economic fundamental....

International R&D Spillovers: the Role of Free Trade Agreements and Institutions

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

Using a sample of 15 OECD countries, this paper investigates whether free trade agreements (FTAs) enhance R&D spillovers across national borders and if institutions play some role in affecting this knowledge diffusion process. Dynamic panel regressions...

NONFARM ACTIVITY AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN RURAL VIETNAM: 2002-2008

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper uses the Vietnamese Households Living Standards Surveys of 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 to examine the effects of nonfarm activity on poverty in rural Vietnam. We show that nonfarm activity helps the poor, but not the poorest, given that households...

Existence of competitive equilibrium in an optimal growth model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous...

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper proves the existence of competitive equilibrium in a single-sector dynamic economy with heterogeneous agents and elastic labor sup- ply. The method of proof relies on some recent results concerning the existence of Lagrange multipliers in in nite...

Who Gains and Who Loses from the Exchange Rate System in Vietnam?

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

As in many other developing countries, the imposition of foreign exchange controls to stabilize the nominal exchange rate and a long-lasting dollarisation phenomenon in Vietnam have caused an unofficial exchange market to emerge. A de facto system of...