Hoa Sen Research Seminar # 102

Agenda: 

• 9:00 : “Foreign direct investment and imports intra and extra ASEAN in the period 2009-2013”–  Dr. Pham Thi Bich Ngoc, Mr. Nguyen Ba Hung and Ms. Nguyen Phuong Quynh, from Hoa Sen University. This study has been recently presented at the 20th SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES REGIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM (SEASREP)
• 10:00 “The First Course on Research Methodology” – Dr. Do Ba Khang, Hoa Sen University. The course is designed to provide the participants with fundamental knowledge to start and carry through academic research for publications in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

Abstract:

• The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been considered as the successful story for attracting foreign capital. Applying an augmented gravity model at the commodity level, this paper aims at examining if foreign direct investment inflows from inside and outside ASEAN can have different impacts on intra- or extra- region imports of this commodity. Accordingly, an unbalanced panel data set including information of 10 main commodities classified by UNCOMTRADE in 10 countries in ASEAN from 2009 to 2013 will be dealt with such estimation methods as the OLS, random and fixed effects. The empirical results indicate that intra-ASEAN FDI inflows can play the role as efficiency -seeking FDI with a positive impact on ASEAN imports. However, FDI from outside ASEAN is associated with a negative relationship with imports among ASEAN but a positive effect with imports from extra region. All of these relationships are lowered for those countries with higher import volume.

The target audience of this program are lecturers (from HSU and other universities) who are (1) committed to conducting academic research in general areas of Economics, Management, Education and Development, leading to publications in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and (2) in early stage of their research. 

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