Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the factors that motivate young people’s intention to undergo cosmetic surgery in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach This study applies Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior as a research model. The study is based on a quantitative method that...

"This ethnography examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste networks in Spring District, Vietnam. Engaging with waste as an economic category of global significance, this book provides an account of migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political...

"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...

This study examines which factors influence support for reducing fossil fuel subsidies and what types of information shift people's views through surveying 37,000 respondents across 12 middle-income countries that provided over USD750 billion in explicit and implicit subsidies for fossil fuels...

We find that equity option liquidity increases stock price crash risk. This effect is robust to different measures of option liquidity and crash risk, alternative weighting schemes, option moneyness, and is not spurious due to endogeneity issues. The option liquidity-stock crash risk causality...

Three decades after the economic reform that abandoned socialist central planning for a market economy, the Vietnamese state has been accelerating its modernising efforts. In 2009, a so-called New Countryside Programme was initiated to mobilise resources for developing a modern and...

In this presentation, we introduce the command frcount for estimating the fractional response model with an endogenous count variable. The endogeneity of the right-hand-side count variable is controlled for under the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. We briefly discuss the model, estimation...

We analyse four years of transaction data for euro-area sovereign bonds traded on the MTS electronic platforms. In order to measure the informational content of trading activity, we estimate the permanent price response to trades. We not only find strong evidence of information asymmetry in...