The study investigates determinants important factors influencing apartment prices in Ho Chi Minh city, the biggest economic center of Vietnam. More especially, the study is conducted by collecting survey data of 124 apartments successfully traded during the first six months of 2019. Regression analysis results indicate that apartment prices were positively influenced by size of apartment, presence of balcony, presence of swimming pool, presence of shopping malls and periodic rental income or value. Moreover, proximity to the city center exerts a negative impact on apartment prices. The findings provide some empirical evidence employing survey data on apartment prices in Vietnam. The results are essential for not only Ho Chi Minh city but also other provinces in Vietnam.

The objective of this paper was to examine the impact of tax policy on social development in Vietnam. In particular, tax policy was measured through the ratio of the government’s tax revenue to gross domestic product - GDP (TAX), and social development is measured through unemployment (UNE). The research data were collected from the General Department of Taxation of Vietnam and the World Bank. We used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model to analyze time series data in the period 1990-2017. The paper achieved great success in finding the first empirical evidence of the negative impact of tax policy on unemployment in Vietnam in the long term. In addition, we found a statistically significant impact of domestic savings and domestic investment on unemployment in the both short and long term. This shows that tax policy plays an important role for unemployment as well as social development in Vietnam.

This study investigates the behavior of foreign investors’ investment decisions in Vietnam stock market, an emerging stock market. The study employs time series quarterly data over the period from quarter 1, 2005 to quarter 4, 2018 which extended before and after the global financial crisis in 2008. The results indicate that foreign investors were positive feedback traders in Vietnam stock market. Concurrently, the findings of GARCH model also reveal that foreign investors’ investment decisions in Vietnam stock market were influ-enced by unusual past shocks. However, these decisions lack the stability and periodicity. These are some empirical evidence on foreign investors’ behavior of investment decisions in Vietnam stock market. These results also provide the authorities in Vietnam a basis to develop suitable policies in order to comprehensively restructure the stock market to aim the international integration and increasing the capacity of capital attraction for foreign investors.

This paper analyzes the causal relationship between the banking system development and the real estate market in Vietnam from 2004:Q3 to 2018:Q4, with the use of the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model as the analysis method. In Vietnam, there is no empirical study on this issue. Therefore, the paper is the first empirical evidence for the relationship between the banking system development and the real estate market in Vietnam. The research results show that the banking system development (measured through the domestic credit to the private sector) and the real estate market had a positive causal relationship in both short and long terms. In addition, the paper found a statistically significant impact of the global financial crisis on the banking system development and the real estate market in Vietnam, which is a new discovery compared with previous studies.

The study investigates the impact of supply chain management on the corporate financial performance of the coffee industry in Vietnam. Particularly, supply chain management is measured in three dimensions, namely relationship with suppliers, relationship with intermediaries and distributors, and relationship with customers. Data are collected by conducting a survey among 248 coffee company representatives of supply chain participants in Vietnam. The multiple regression analysis is adopted in the model estimation. The findings reveal that financial performance (FP) was positively influenced by relationship with intermediaries and distributors (RID), relationship with customers (RC), and relationship with suppliers (RS). In specific, the relationship with intermediaries and distributors (RID) is the most significant driver of financial performance (FP). The study greatly succeeds in providing an unprecedented finding which is the considerable effect of the participants representing supply chain management on financial performance. The findings are essential to the management of supply chain members in the coffee sector. Accordingly, to boost the financial performance, the companies should pay more attention on improving supply chain management efficiency. Supply chain management can be achieved not only by improving processes internally but also by working with suppliers, customers and most notably partners like intermediaries and distributors.

The paper investigates the impact of corporate performance on supply chain finance with the data collected from logistics sector in Vietnam. Particularly, supply chain finance is measured by cash conversion cycle (CCC). By using the generalized method of moment (GMM), the results show that corporate performance (CP) exerts a negative impact on cash conversion cycle (CCC). Alternatively, corporate performance positively affects supply chain finance, which is an interesting finding of this paper. Further, supply chain finance is also significantly influenced by some control variables, namely capital structure (CS), firm size (FS) and firm growth (FG). The results are essential for the management of supply chain, especially those working in logistics sector.

The paper analyzes factors which exert significant impact on supply chain finance (SCF) of real estate sector in Vietnam. Since this interesting topic has not been commonly investigated in empirical research, its results will be meaningful not only on Vietnam but also on other economies. By employing generalized method of moment (GMM) in estimation, the authors report the negative impact of firm profitability (ROA), financial leverage (LEV), firm size (SIZE) and economic growth (GDP) on supply chain finance (SCF). These valuable findings are essential for consideration by the management in improving supply chain finance, especially that of real estate sector.

Supply chain finance has become an interesting research topic which attracts lots of attention from scholars recently, particularly after the global financial crisis. However, only few studies have examined the causal relationship between supply chain finance and firm performance. More specially, there is a big research gap when almost none of existing research has analysed the nonlinear impact of supply chain finance on firm performance. With this aim, this paper succeeds in giving first empirical evidence on the U-shaped nonlinear relationship between supply chain finance and the performance of seafood firms in Vietnam. Specifically, a bad performance of supply chain finance (the increase in cash conversion cycle - CCC) causes a lower firm performance (FP). Nevertheless, if any decrease in firm performance reaches its minimum (CCC*), the restructuring of the firm will gradually improve it. In addition, firm performance is significantly influenced by controlled variables of firm-specific, firm size (SIZE) and capital structure (CAP), and macroeconomic, economic growth (EG), factors. The findings are valuable for the management as well as scholars in bringing a more comprehensive perspective on the causal relationship between supply chain finance and firm performance.

This paper investigates the impact of financial leverage and supply chain finance on firm performance of Vietnamese construction sector. Although there is a big gap in the literature needed to be filled, little empirical evidence can be found on this interesting topic. Therefore, the results are essential for Vietnamese firms, particularly those in construction industry. By adopting the generalized method of moment (GMM), the results reveal the significant influence of financial leverage and supply chain finance on the performance of construction firms. In particular, firm performance (FP) is more influenced by financial leverage (FL) than supply chain finance (SCF). The findings also show that supply chain finance plays a key role in enhancing firm performance. Meanwhile, more debts and their inefficient use exert a negative impact on firm performance, which is an unprecedented finding of this study.

This paper investigates the impact of supply chain finance (SCF) and financial development on profitability of real estate firms in Vietnam over the 2013 - 2017 period. This is the first empirical research examining the impact of financial development on firm profitability. By employing GMM (generalized method of moment), this paper reveals the important role of supply chain finance (SCF) and financial development in profitability of real estate firms. Specifically, firm profitability (P) is influenced negatively by cash conversion cycle (CCC) and positively by financial development (FD). In addition, profitability is negatively correlated with control variable of financial leverage (LEV) and positively associated with control variable of firm size (SIZE). The findings reveal the role of supply chain finance and financial development in firm profitability which policymakers as well as managers at real estate firms can apply suitable methods in order to improve firms’ profits.