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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)

Spatial Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Vietnam

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

In an effort to unlock the black box of mixed empirical evidence for productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in host countries, this paper, using the case of Vietnam, examined the role of geographical proximity and inter firm interaction...

Can FDI Be Bad for Growth?

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

We find a curious negative casual relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and total factor productivity growth (TFPG) across the world for the period 1996-2009. The relationship is robust to specifications in which we instrument for FDI using...

Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper analyzes the causal relations between ?rms? productivity, factor intensity and export participation. Using propensity score matching techniques and ?rm-level panel data for Chinese manufacturing ?rms over the 1998-2007 period, we ?nd strong...

Financial Deregulation and Productivity of Commercial Banks in Emerging economies: A case study of Mauritius...

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

A Stochastic Dynamic Model of Trade and Growth: Convergence and Diversification

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

There is a growing literature that studies the properties of models that combine international trade and neoclassical growth theory, but mostly in a deterministic setting. In this paper we introduce uncertainty in a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model and characterize...

Infectious Diseases and Economic Growth

Xuất bản: 27 July, 2022

This paper develops a framework to study the economic impact of infectious diseases by integrating epidemiological dynamics into a continuous time neo-classical growth model. There is a two way interaction between the economy and the disease: the incidence...