Hoa Sen Research Seminar #122

In the first session (9:00-10:30), it is our great pleasure to welcome two MA students from the Open university to Hoa Sen Research Seminar. In this session, they will present their current studies and it would be great if interested researchers/lecturers can come to provide constructive feedbacks, which is the spirit of HSRS. Please noted that these presentations will be in Vietnamese.

Title: “Bilateral Trade and Official Development Assistance: Evidence from Developing Countries”, by Le Na.

Abstract: This paper applies a data set of 27 developing countries receiving ODA in the period 2000 – 2013 and provides evidence of an empirical relationship between bilateral trade and ODA. Accordingly, ODA from donors is positively determined by imports from these countries.

Title: “Determinants of Vietnam’s Exports: A Gravity Model Approach at Industry-level Data”, by Truong Thanh Cong.

Abstract: Using data of Vietnam’s exports by industry from 1996 to 2014 and the gravity model in trade analysis, this paper finds the positive impacts of population, trade agreements, common boundary, and real exchange rate but the negative effects of geographical distance and trade cost on Vietnam’s exports.

In the second session, Dr. Do Hue Huong from Faculty of Languages and Culture Studies, Hoa Sen University will give a tutorial on Qualitative Research, namely “Research method training: Coding qualitative data 1”. This is the first part of the tutorial and the second one will be provided on next Thursday (19/05/2016). These sessions will be useful for qualitative researchers who are currently conducting research using qualitative research methodologies. It will also benefit quantitative researchers who would like to understand how to conduct a serious qualitative research and may want to apply these techniques in the future.