Vietnam Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation 2025

8:00 - 8:30 (30min)

Registration & Coffee

Conference Hall

8:30 - 9:30 (1h)

TBA

Ballroom

Keynote Speech 2 - Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke

9:30 - 10:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Conference Hall

10:00 - 11:30 (1h30)

D1: Household Finance

Ballroom

Chou Shu-Ching, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

› The Impact of Tax Reform on Corporate Real Estate Investment - Shu-Ching Chou, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Determinants of Retirement Savings Decisions: Evidence from a 401(k) Plan - MinhTam Schlosky, University of Illinois Springfield 10:30-11:00 (30min)

› Present Bias, Fast Cash Loans, and Financial Literacy in the United States - Solomon Wang, St Mary's University 11:00-11:30 (30min)

10:00 - 11:30 (1h30)

D2: Sustainability and Risk Management

Apricot Room

Woon Leong Lin, Taylor's University, Malaysia

› U-shaped climate-credit risk dependency at the loan portfolio level: implications from the genetic algorithm for the correlated Bernoulli trials simulation - Henry Penikas, Research and Forecasting Department, Bank of Russia 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› The Green Fallacy: Investigating the Relationship between Greenwashing and Firm Risk - Bhagya Bhutani, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 10:30-11:00 (30min)

› The Impact of Eco-Product and Eco-Process Innovation on Sustainability Risk Management in the Malaysian Furniture Industry: The Moderating Role of Market Turbulence - Lin Woon Leong, Taylor's University 11:00-11:30 (30min)

10:00 - 11:30 (1h30)

D3: Entrepreneurship and Alternative Finance

Orchid Room

Toth Russell, University of Sydney, Australia

› Payment Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Racial Disparities: Evidence from Money Service Business - Hieu Tran, University of Massachusetts, Boston 10:00-10:30 (30min)

› Incentivizing Customer Referrals for Bank Loans to Female Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam - Russell Toth, University of Sydney 10:30-11:00 (30min)

11:30 - 12:30 (1h)

Special Session

Ballroom

TBD

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch Break

Conference Hall

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

F1: Boards, ESG, and Firm Performance

Ballroom

Gopalaswamy Arun Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

› Does Female Presence on Corporate Boards matter for Firm`s Cost of Equity? Evidence from Indian Firms - Praveen Bhagawan, IFMR GSB, Krea University, Sri City, India 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Earnings Management as an outcome of failure to reduce post-acquisition agency cost - Arun Kumar Gopalaswamy, Professor, Indian institute of technology Madras, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The Impact of ESG Risk on Stock Returns, and risks: An Empirical Analysis of the Energy Sector - Minh Dinh, University of Inland Norway 15:00-15:30 (30min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

F2: ESG and Sustainable Finance

Apricot Room

Al-Yahyaee Khamis, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Muscat University, Oman

› Spillovers between green bonds, oil, and stock markets in the U.S and the European stock markets - Khamis Al-Yahyaee, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat University 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› The Economic and Financial Implications of Land and Water Pollution: Evidence from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake - Jun Myung Song, Hitotsubashi University 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Barriers to the expansion of community off-grid solar systems: Evidence from rural India - Keyur Thaker, Indian Institute of Management Indore 15:00-15:30 (30min)

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

F3: Entrepreneurship and Financial Innovation

Orchid Room

Hanif Muhammad Shehzad, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan

› ENTREPRENEURIAL RESILIENCE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SERIAL ENTREPRENEURS, HYBRID ENTREPRENEURS, AND NON-ENTREPRENEURS - Muhammad Shehzad Hanif, University of Central Punjab 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Impact of Mobile Banking on Liquidity and Credit Risk - Priya Choudhary, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 14:30-15:00 (30min)