
Tran ToanthangVietnam Institute for Development Strategies (VIDS) · International Issues
Tran Toanthang
PhD.
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October 2014 - January 2017

Central Institute for Economic Management
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Book chapter: FDI is a key driver of Vietnam’s economic growth. This paper, using Vietnam’s annual enterprise census and innovation survey data, aims at investigating the relationship between FDI firms and Vietnamese private firms' innovation activities and productivity. The finding shows that the presence of FDI firms
has almost no correlation wit...
This paper investigates the role of inter-firm interaction and geographical proximity in the determination of productivity spillover effects from foreign to domestic firms. We developed an estimation approach using the Spatial Durbin model and applied this to a firm-level dataset from Vietnam from 2000–2005. We found that productivity spillovers di...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) may benefit local firms in the host country through various kinds of spillovers, but it may also raise competition and result in the crowding out of domestic firms. Using detailed firm-level data for the period 2001-2008, this paper examines the aggregate effect of FDI on the survival of domestic private firms in Vie...
While the positive productivity spillover from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to
domestic owned firms in host countries is unequivocally emphasized in theory, the empirical
evidence is contradictory. This paper, based on firm level data in Vietnam (enterprise census,
2000-2005), provides more inside on that. Using time-varying stochastic frontier...