The dissertation centers on the following key issues. First, what are the impacts of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing? Second, what determines productivity in Vietnamese manufacturing: the roles of technology and institutions? Third, what are the...

The three chapters of this dissertation discuss what role complexity plays in different fields of international economics. First, we discuss the role of complex information in decision making of multinational companies. On the one hand, we test the hypotheses by Oldenski (2012) that affiliate...