This study empirically examines the determinants of merger and acquisition (M&A) activities in Vietnam from 2005 to 2020, which has not been examined before, using a fixed-effects model for a sample of 674 completed M&A deals. The results indicate that targets' corporate governance and deal...

This study investigates the relationship between market power and bank profitability, and the impacts of CEOs' personality traits, in Vietnam from 2007 to 2020. The analysis of CEOs' signatures is used to determine their characteristics. The findings support the quiet-life hypothesis, which...

This paper introduces a free and new database that provides financial analysts and researchers a comprehensive assessment of the performance of the Vietnamese banking system. This database provides statistics on the activity and efficiency of 432 bank-year observations for Vietnamese banks...

Over the last twenty years in Vietnam, the financial system in general and the banking system in particular had been transferred from a monopoly system into a diversified system which allows all participants to compete fairly and effectively.Within these past years, the banking system in Vietnam...

The Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) is constructed from nine components including market integration expenses, land accessibility, and others in order to explain the differences between the dynamics, the abilities of job generation, and the socio-economic development of all provinces in...

Banking is the core of the financial system which has important role in attracting deposits to provide credits to borrowers, services to customers and booting the economic development. This paper applied a modified DEA window analysis to analyze the performance changes through time of the...

Using time trend data from 1990 to 2010, the research applied the efficiency measurement and Data Envelopment Analysis approach to evaluate the performance changes of Vietnamese banking system under financial liberalization. The DEA time trend model is a fruitful approach to analyze the banking...

This paper focus on evaluating the efficiency of some Vietnamese commercial banks in using inputs such as wage (w), interest fee and similar (i) and other cost (c). The results show that efficiency of 22 banks is average high, however, there is still an opportunity to improve this indicator

Using time trend data from 1990 to 2010, the research applied the efficiency measurement and Data Envelopment Analysis approach to evaluate the performance changes of Vietnamese banking system under financial liberalization. The DEA time trend model is a fruitful approach to analyze the banking...

In Vietnam, the automobile industry was seen as a very important sector of the economy. This paper studies the efficiency and productivity change of the Vietnamese automobile industry during the 2004-2007 periods, employing the Malmquist - Data Envelopment Analysis approach. For the best of our...