Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue 30 May
12:30 - 14:00
Location
Level 12 Boardroom, Rutherford House, VUW
Abstract
This research investigates the impacts of cyclones and deforestation which often cause heavy floods during and after the cyclones on production of the three groups of food crops in Vietnam ―cereals, tuber crops, and other crops. Provincial datasets on the number and intensity of the cyclones that landed in Vietnam are used, and a combination of instrumental variable and seemingly unrelated regressions is employed. Two systems of equations are estimated, the first with interaction between cyclones and deforestation and the second without this interaction. The similar and different results between the two models are compared and contrasted. The effect of deforestation as an exacerbating factor is also discussed.
About Dr Tam Vu
Dr Tam Vu is a Professor of Economics and Chair of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Hawaii-Hilo. She has published 32 articles in refereed journals during the past ten years, including papers in renowned journals such as Economics Letters, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Pacific Economic Review, and Journal of Asian Economics. She is a member of the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society.
Dr Vu has been teaching macroeconomics and quantitative methods for nine years, including both Econometrics and Forecasting courses. Her classes are open to undergraduate students and master’s students with interests in business and economics. She is a graduate cooperating faculty at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She holds an MA in International Economics and PhD in Macroeconomics from the University of Hawaii, Manoa.