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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)

Housing and Well-being among the Vietnamese Elderly

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This study examines the relationship between housing and subjective well-being among the Vietnamese elderly, using data from the 2011 Vietnam Ageing Survey. Our regression analysis reveals that permanent housing and better amenities are major factors...

Corruption and Firm Financial Performance: New Evidence from Vietnam

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

Using a nationwide survey of provincial institutional quality and a sample of private manufacturing small and medium scale enterprises (the SMEs), this paper is the first to examine the effects of corruption on financial performance of the Vietnamese...

Gender and Ethnicity in Bolivia, Ecuador,and Guatemala

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps, and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. The results indicate that women are highly discriminated in the job market and undertake most of the domestic activities...

Collateral monetary equilibrium with liquidity constraints in an in_nite horizon economy

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper considers an in nite-horizon monetary economy with collateralized assets in which only commodities can be used as collateral. A Central Bank lends money to households by creating short- and long-term loans. Households can deposit or borrow...

Diversification benefits and strategic portfolio allocation across asset classes: the case of the US...

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

We investigate the diversification benefits and optimal portfolio allocation across different US asset classes. Our results from applying the principal component analysis (PCA) show that although there is an increasing trend in market integration, five...

Does Idiosyncratic Risk matter in the Vietnamese Stock Market?

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

The paper examines the behaviour of idiosyncratic volatility in the Vietnamese stock market from 2007-2012. Using daily and monthly data, we find that idiosyncratic volatility cannot predict one-month ahead stock returns in the stock market. Also, there...