Firm Level Evidence of Disaster Impacts on Growth in Vietnam

Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam∗

This paper tests whether firm growth reduces corruption, using crossindustry variation in growth rates in Vietnam and survey data from over 13,000 Vietnamese firms between 2006 and 2010. We employ two instrumental variables strategies, one based on growth in a firm’s industry in other provinces within Vietnam and a second based on industry growth in neighboring China. In both specifications, we...

Impacts of Domestic Savings on Economic Growth of Vietnam

Impacts of flood on health: epidemiologic evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam

BACKGROUND Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. The country suffers from many kinds of natural disasters, of which the most common and serious one is flooding. Long and heavy rainfall during the last days of October and the first week of November 2008 resulted in a devastating flood unseen for over three decades in the capital city of Hanoi. It caused a substantial ...

Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: Firm-level Evidence from Cameroon

Does trade liberalization foster total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the manufacturing sector? Does sectoral trade orientation determine sectoral TFP levels and growth rates? These questions are addressed using pooled pre-and post-liberalization panel data from Cameroonian firms of eight manufacturing industries. A single production function for the whole manufacturing sector is estimated...

Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence

We explore the effect of computerization on productivity and output growth using data from 527 large US firms over 1987-1994. We find that computerization makes a contribution to measured productivity and output growth in the short term (using one year differences) that is consistent with normal returns to computer investments. However, the productivity and output contributions associated with ...