Thanh Le
Biographic Data
| ID | 802248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thanh Le |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thanh |
| FAMILY NAME | Le |
| SIGNATURE | LÊ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1665-7926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters
In this paper, we examine the effect of bribery on innovation performance and whether bank finance serves as an effective channel of the impact. In doing so, we compute an innovation performance index for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. We then conduct mediation analysis on the triad of bribery, bank finance and innovation performance using a large panel of almost 13,000 private manufacturing firms in Vietnam from 2007 to 2015. Empirical…
VR’s influence on ecotourism intentions: Sensory marketing, immersion, enjoyment, and expectations of the attraction’s uniqueness
Sectoral FDI and environmental sustainability in Africa: The role of sustainable investment
Foreign direct investment (FDI), channeled effectively, has the potential to alleviate environmental pressures and strike a balance between economic advancement and environmental preservation. However, there has not yet been a study examining the impact of sustainable FDI and FDI inflows into key sectors, such as agriculture, manufacturing, and services on the environment in Africa. This study addresses the literature gap by exploring a dataset s…
Impacts of FDI Linkages on the Labor Productivity of Domestic Firms: The Role of Local Business Environment
This study contributes to the literature on the spillovers of foreign direct investment by presenting empirical evidence on the impact of linkages with foreign-invested firms on the productivity of domestic firms in different local business environments. Using longitudinal data in a transitional economy of Vietnam from 2012 to 2018 and applying different estimation techniques to deal with the potential endogeneity problem, the study shows that li…
Endogenous Expropriation with Non-strategic Lobbying
This paper develops a theoretical model of political competition in which a lobby group provides financial support to candidates running for election in return for favorable policy outcomes. The lack of a legally binding contract may lead politicians to use campaign funds for their own personal benefit. However, this expropriation occurs entirely unexpected to the lobby group, which is non-strategic in nature. We find that there is a utility-maxi…
Sperner’s lemma and competitive equilibrium with incomplete financial markets
Money in Politics: How Does It Affect Election Outcomes
We study how campaign funding influences winning chances of candidates using the US House of Representatives elections in all 50 states and Washington D.C. from 2000 to 2018. We find a positive and statistically significant relationship between campaign expenditure, campaign contributions and winning probability. However, incumbent spending is less effective than contender spending due to diminishing returns for the former. We also scrutinize the…
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: The case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities
Resting on social exchange theory and the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework, this research examined the causal relationships between high-performance work practices, climate for engagement, job engagement, and job performance in the context of Vietnamese higher education. A multiphase, multisource data collection method was applied to 394 pairs of full-time academic staff and their line managers or supervisors working for 14 public and pri…
Financial Development and International R&D Spillovers Through Trade: Evidence From Developing Countries
This paper examines how financial development affects technological progress of 55 developing countries over the 2003 to 2016 period, with particular attention to the interaction between R&D spillovers and financial development. We find that financial development induces total factor productivity improvement in developing countries both directly and indirectly. While there has been a profound literature on the direct effect of financial developme…
Lobbying, political competition and the welfare effect of campaign contribution tax
This paper develops a probabilistic voting model in which a single lobby group commits campaign contributions to parties, contingent on the policy position the party adopts. Parties may have different propensities for diverting campaign funds towards rents. We show that a party that skims more from contributions mobilises fewer uninformed voters but places more value on receiving greater contributions. Further, the contributions and vote share of…
Out of sight but not out of mind: On the North-South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus
This article investigates whether student flows significantly channel academic knowledge from developed countries in the North to less developed ones in the South. It also examines if human capital absorbs and materialises this academic knowledge into technological development. Empirical analysis on a panel of 55 developing countries over 2003–2016 period indicates that student flows from the South to the North is an important vehicle for the Nor…
Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam
This study examines the access to informal short-term borrowings of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their performance in a credit-rationing period. Using a unique data set on Vietnamese private manufacturing SMEs spanning before, at the onset of, and during the period of credit distress 2011–2014, we find that bank loans act as a substitute for informal borrowings prior to but a complement during the crisis. Meanwhile, trade credit always…
Projected response of global runoff to El Niño-Southern oscillation
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major mode of interannual climate variability and is expected to affect runoff variations at a global scale. While previous studies focused on the correlation analysis between ENSO and runoff and ENSO-induced amplitude changes of runoff, causal analysis considering the confounding impacts of other major climate modes is lacking. As more extreme ENSO events are projected in the future, it is crucial to …
The Indian Ocean Dipole response to external forcing in the coupled model intercomparison project phase 5 simulations of the last millennium
The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a major mode of interannual climate variability, but its response to external climate forcings (i.e. solar forcing, volcanic radiative forcing (VRF) and greenhouse gas (GHG) radiative forcing) remains elusive. To improve our understanding of the variability of the IOD, it is necessary to investigate the IOD’s response to external forcings through multi-model simulations. Here a Granger causality test is used to ex…
Causal effects of Indian Ocean Dipole on El Niño–Southern Oscillation during 1950–2014 based on high-resolution models and reanalysis data
Uncertainty exists regarding the interaction between the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) where ENSO is normally expected to be the leading mode. Moreover, the effect of global warming on the relationship between these two modes remains unexplored. Therefore, we investigated the ENSO–IOD linkage for the years 1950–2014 using reanalysis data and high-resolution climate model simulations. The 1950–2014 period is of …
Research and development and sustainable growth over alternative types of natural resources
Transitional dynamics in an R&D-based growth model with natural resources
Impacts of academic R&D on high-tech manufacturing products: Tentative Evidence From Supercomputer Data
This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991–2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech research. To overcome this problem, a novel proxy for high-tech research investment – the supercomputer c…
R&D Spillovers through Student Flows, Institutions, and Economic Growth: What can we Learn from A frican Countries
Using modern panel cointegration estimation techniques, this paper examines whether tertiary student flows can effectively transmit technological knowledge from industrialized countries to A frican countries. The results obtained lend strong support to this hypothesis. In addition, this paper extends the analysis to include institutional variables such as the ease of doing business, legal origins, and religious majority to see if institutional ch…
Brain Drain’ or ‘Brain Circulation’: Evidence From Oecd's International Migration and R&d Spillovers
This paper empirically investigates whether labour mobility can transfer technology across borders based on the panel cointegration method. Estimates of specifications on a cross‐section of 19 OECD countries during 1980–1990 lend strong support to this thesis. Data indicate that international labour movement may help transfer technology across borders in both directions: from donor countries to host countries and vice versa. This suggests that mi…
Brain Drain’ or ‘Brain Circulation’: Evidence From Oecd's International Migration and R&d Spillovers
This paper empirically investigates whether labour mobility can transfer technology across borders based on the panel cointegration method. Estimates of specifications on a cross‐section of 19 OECD countries during 1980–1990 lend strong support to this thesis. Data indicate that international labour movement may help transfer technology across borders in both directions: from donor countries to host countries and vice versa. This suggests that mi…
R&D Spillovers through Student Flows, Institutions, and Economic Growth: What can we Learn from A frican Countries
Using modern panel cointegration estimation techniques, this paper examines whether tertiary student flows can effectively transmit technological knowledge from industrialized countries to A frican countries. The results obtained lend strong support to this hypothesis. In addition, this paper extends the analysis to include institutional variables such as the ease of doing business, legal origins, and religious majority to see if institutional ch…
Impacts of academic R&D on high-tech manufacturing products: Tentative Evidence From Supercomputer Data
This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991–2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech research. To overcome this problem, a novel proxy for high-tech research investment – the supercomputer c…
Lobbying, political competition and the welfare effect of campaign contribution tax
This paper develops a probabilistic voting model in which a single lobby group commits campaign contributions to parties, contingent on the policy position the party adopts. Parties may have different propensities for diverting campaign funds towards rents. We show that a party that skims more from contributions mobilises fewer uninformed voters but places more value on receiving greater contributions. Further, the contributions and vote share of…
Out of sight but not out of mind: On the North-South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus
This article investigates whether student flows significantly channel academic knowledge from developed countries in the North to less developed ones in the South. It also examines if human capital absorbs and materialises this academic knowledge into technological development. Empirical analysis on a panel of 55 developing countries over 2003–2016 period indicates that student flows from the South to the North is an important vehicle for the Nor…
Transitional dynamics in an R&D-based growth model with natural resources
Brain Drain’ or ‘Brain Circulation’: Evidence From Oecd's International Migration and R&d Spillovers
This paper empirically investigates whether labour mobility can transfer technology across borders based on the panel cointegration method. Estimates of specifications on a cross‐section of 19 OECD countries during 1980–1990 lend strong support to this thesis. Data indicate that international labour movement may help transfer technology across borders in both directions: from donor countries to host countries and vice versa. This suggests that mi…
R&D Spillovers through Student Flows, Institutions, and Economic Growth: What can we Learn from A frican Countries
Using modern panel cointegration estimation techniques, this paper examines whether tertiary student flows can effectively transmit technological knowledge from industrialized countries to A frican countries. The results obtained lend strong support to this hypothesis. In addition, this paper extends the analysis to include institutional variables such as the ease of doing business, legal origins, and religious majority to see if institutional ch…
Impacts of academic R&D on high-tech manufacturing products: Tentative Evidence From Supercomputer Data
This paper empirically examines the impact of academic research on high-tech manufacturing growth of 28 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging countries over the 1991–2005 period. A standard research and development (R&D) expenditure based measure is found to be too general to capture the input in high-tech research. To overcome this problem, a novel proxy for high-tech research investment – the supercomputer c…
Transitional dynamics in an R&D-based growth model with natural resources
Research and development and sustainable growth over alternative types of natural resources
Causal effects of Indian Ocean Dipole on El Niño–Southern Oscillation during 1950–2014 based on high-resolution models and reanalysis data
Uncertainty exists regarding the interaction between the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) where ENSO is normally expected to be the leading mode. Moreover, the effect of global warming on the relationship between these two modes remains unexplored. Therefore, we investigated the ENSO–IOD linkage for the years 1950–2014 using reanalysis data and high-resolution climate model simulations. The 1950–2014 period is of …
Informal Short-term Borrowings and Small and Medium Enterprises’ Performance in a Credit Crunch: Evidence from Vietnam
This study examines the access to informal short-term borrowings of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and their performance in a credit-rationing period. Using a unique data set on Vietnamese private manufacturing SMEs spanning before, at the onset of, and during the period of credit distress 2011–2014, we find that bank loans act as a substitute for informal borrowings prior to but a complement during the crisis. Meanwhile, trade credit always…
Projected response of global runoff to El Niño-Southern oscillation
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a major mode of interannual climate variability and is expected to affect runoff variations at a global scale. While previous studies focused on the correlation analysis between ENSO and runoff and ENSO-induced amplitude changes of runoff, causal analysis considering the confounding impacts of other major climate modes is lacking. As more extreme ENSO events are projected in the future, it is crucial to …
The Indian Ocean Dipole response to external forcing in the coupled model intercomparison project phase 5 simulations of the last millennium
The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a major mode of interannual climate variability, but its response to external climate forcings (i.e. solar forcing, volcanic radiative forcing (VRF) and greenhouse gas (GHG) radiative forcing) remains elusive. To improve our understanding of the variability of the IOD, it is necessary to investigate the IOD’s response to external forcings through multi-model simulations. Here a Granger causality test is used to ex…
Lobbying, political competition and the welfare effect of campaign contribution tax
This paper develops a probabilistic voting model in which a single lobby group commits campaign contributions to parties, contingent on the policy position the party adopts. Parties may have different propensities for diverting campaign funds towards rents. We show that a party that skims more from contributions mobilises fewer uninformed voters but places more value on receiving greater contributions. Further, the contributions and vote share of…
Out of sight but not out of mind: On the North-South academic knowledge spillovers and human capital nexus
This article investigates whether student flows significantly channel academic knowledge from developed countries in the North to less developed ones in the South. It also examines if human capital absorbs and materialises this academic knowledge into technological development. Empirical analysis on a panel of 55 developing countries over 2003–2016 period indicates that student flows from the South to the North is an important vehicle for the Nor…
Unlocking the black box of HPWPs-performance relationship in Vietnamese higher education context: The case of Ho Chi Minh City’s universities
Resting on social exchange theory and the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity framework, this research examined the causal relationships between high-performance work practices, climate for engagement, job engagement, and job performance in the context of Vietnamese higher education. A multiphase, multisource data collection method was applied to 394 pairs of full-time academic staff and their line managers or supervisors working for 14 public and pri…
Financial Development and International R&D Spillovers Through Trade: Evidence From Developing Countries
This paper examines how financial development affects technological progress of 55 developing countries over the 2003 to 2016 period, with particular attention to the interaction between R&D spillovers and financial development. We find that financial development induces total factor productivity improvement in developing countries both directly and indirectly. While there has been a profound literature on the direct effect of financial developme…
Sperner’s lemma and competitive equilibrium with incomplete financial markets
Money in Politics: How Does It Affect Election Outcomes
We study how campaign funding influences winning chances of candidates using the US House of Representatives elections in all 50 states and Washington D.C. from 2000 to 2018. We find a positive and statistically significant relationship between campaign expenditure, campaign contributions and winning probability. However, incumbent spending is less effective than contender spending due to diminishing returns for the former. We also scrutinize the…
Sectoral FDI and environmental sustainability in Africa: The role of sustainable investment
Foreign direct investment (FDI), channeled effectively, has the potential to alleviate environmental pressures and strike a balance between economic advancement and environmental preservation. However, there has not yet been a study examining the impact of sustainable FDI and FDI inflows into key sectors, such as agriculture, manufacturing, and services on the environment in Africa. This study addresses the literature gap by exploring a dataset s…
Impacts of FDI Linkages on the Labor Productivity of Domestic Firms: The Role of Local Business Environment
This study contributes to the literature on the spillovers of foreign direct investment by presenting empirical evidence on the impact of linkages with foreign-invested firms on the productivity of domestic firms in different local business environments. Using longitudinal data in a transitional economy of Vietnam from 2012 to 2018 and applying different estimation techniques to deal with the potential endogeneity problem, the study shows that li…
Endogenous Expropriation with Non-strategic Lobbying
This paper develops a theoretical model of political competition in which a lobby group provides financial support to candidates running for election in return for favorable policy outcomes. The lack of a legally binding contract may lead politicians to use campaign funds for their own personal benefit. However, this expropriation occurs entirely unexpected to the lobby group, which is non-strategic in nature. We find that there is a utility-maxi…
Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters
In this paper, we examine the effect of bribery on innovation performance and whether bank finance serves as an effective channel of the impact. In doing so, we compute an innovation performance index for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. We then conduct mediation analysis on the triad of bribery, bank finance and innovation performance using a large panel of almost 13,000 private manufacturing firms in Vietnam from 2007 to 2015. Empirical…
VR’s influence on ecotourism intentions: Sensory marketing, immersion, enjoyment, and expectations of the attraction’s uniqueness
Economics (13 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic Growth and Development (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (4 works)