On December 15, 2022, the Strong Research Group on Business, Commerce and Sustainable Development organized a seminar to invite experts from the Faculty of Business, Massey University, New Zealand to give some presentations. The purpose of the seminar was to exchange research results of the lecturers, contributing to promoting cooperation in training and scientific research between the Faculty of Accounting and Business Management, Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) and the Faculty of Business, Massey University, New Zealand. Attending the seminar, on the side of Massey University, there were Dr. Jeffrey Stangl, Director of International Relations, and Dr. Harvey Nguyen, Lecturer from the Faculty of Business. On the side of Faculty of Accounting and Business Administration, VNUA, there were Dr. Nguyen Anh Tru, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Accounting and Business Management, Head of Research Group on Business, Commerce and Sustainable Development and lecturers of the Faculty.

Dr. Harvey Nguyen delivers his presentation

Dr. Harvey Nguyen introduces research directions

Delegates attending the seminar

Opening the seminar, Dr. Harvey Nguyen briefly introduced his personal information and research orientations, in which his research focused on 3 main topics, including Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, and Behavioral Economics. Following that, Dr. Harvey Nguyen delivered a presentation entitled “Lotery Demand and Stock Returns Preceding Earnings Announcements”, which was a study under the Behavioral Economics topic. The objective of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the need to play the lottery and investors' income statements. Data for the study were collected between 1980-2015 with nearly 600,000 observations. There were many questions and opinions exchanged by the delegates about the presentation of Dr. Harvey Nguyen.

After nearly 2 hours of work, the seminar program was a great success. Hopefully, in the future, there would continue to be many cooperation programs in training and science and technology between VNUA and Massey University, New Zealand.