Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy: Volume 3 Issue 2 , Open Access

Editorial: Overview of the current issue

Binh Tran-Nam, Cuong Le-Van, Van Pham-Hoang, Thai-Ha Le

Public services, environmental quality and subjective well-being in a European city: the case of Strasbourg metropolitan area

Jean-Alain Heraud, Phu Nguyen-Van, Thi Kim Cuong Pham

This paper analyzes individual subjective well-being using a survey database from the Strasbourg metropolitan development council (France). The authors focus on the effects of…

The economics of emissions in rice production: a survey-data-driven approach in Vietnam

Long Chu

This paper aims to focus on scrutinizing the economics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Vietnam's rice production sector.

Symmetry-breaking and trade in neoclassical economies with domestic policies having diminishing effect to production scale

Tsuyoshi Shinozaki, Makoto Tawada, Mitsuyoshi Yanagihara

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether a Nash equilibrium of a two-country trading economy is symmetry-breaking or not.

Total factor productivity and outsourcing: the case of Vietnamese small and medium sized enterprises

Pham Thi Bich Ngoc, Pham Thi Hoa Tien, Pham Dinh Long, Huynh Quoc Vu

The paper aims to investigate the difference in total factor productivity (TFP) among those firms with and without outsourcing in a developing country like Vietnam. Also, it…

Standards compliance, participation in the global value chain and the value-added of labour: evidence from Vietnam’s small-and-medium-sized enterprises

Minh Ngoc Le, Hoang Long Chu

The authors investigate the impact of standards compliance on the participation in the global value chain and labour value-added of Vietnam’s small and medium-sized enterprises…

Comparing the Harrod-Domar, Solow and Ramsey growth models and their implications for economic policies

Cuong Le-Van, Binh Tran-Nam

The principal aim of this paper is to review three basic theoretical growth models, namely the Harrod-Domar model, the Solow model and the Ramsey model, and examine their…

Optimal coalition splitting with heterogenous strategies

Raouf Boucekkine, Carmen Camacho, Weihua Ruan, Benteng Zou

The authors characterize the conditions under which a country may eventually split and when it splits within an infinite horizon multi-stage differential game.

Cigarette tax pass-through in Vietnam: evidence from retailers’ data

Mai-Huong Vo, Ngoc-Anh Nguyen, Estelle Dauchy, Nuong Nguyen

This study aims to estimate the pass-through rate of the increases in the excise tax and TCF tax on tobacco in Vietnam. This study seeks to shed light on how the tax burden is…

Capital diversion in Vietnamese state-owned enterprises

Cuong Le-Van, Ngoc-Anh Nguyen, Ngoc-Minh Nguyen, Phu Nguyen-Van

The authors estimated the hidden overhead (capital diversion or wasteful use of capital) of Vietnam state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

Adult and child labor markets with Nashian and Kantian firms

Van H. Pham

This paper is a dedication to Professor Ngo Van Long who introduced the idea of Kant–Nash equilibrium. The author extends this analysis to the study of adult and child labor…

Kantian–Nashian interaction and petty tax corruption in developing countries

Binh Tran-Nam

This paper attempts to develop a simple, static model of tax administration that is capable of explaining the widespread collusive petty tax administration corruption observed in…