APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)

APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.

Those who would attend a seminar are asked to announce yourself to receptionists on your arrival at the IDE and to obtain APL Organizers' signature on your admission card after the seminar.

November 26, 2015. (Thursday) 12：30-14：00

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization C23 Meeting Room 　

The rise and fall of multinational enterprises in Vietnam: survival analysis using census data during 2000-2011

Using census data from 2000–2011, we examined the survival of multinational enterprises (MNEs) located in Vietnam using Cox hazard models with time–variant covariates. Beside enterprises' characteristics and performance, we found that the firm characteristics, structure of the ownership and nationalities of the foreign partners are associated with the probability of exiting, which suggests that a joint–venture between a foreign partner and a domestic non–state owned enterprise is more likely to exit than other types of MNEs. Also, a firm with a greater capital share owned by foreign partners was found to survive longer. Furthermore, time cost due to bureaucratic procedures and inspections, among indicators of local government performance, was associated with a greater probability of MNEs exiting.

Tien Manh Vu (Osaka University)

Yuya KUDO

English