International Conference on Economics, Law and Government (ELG 2026)
SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND POLICY DESIGN IN THE AGE OF MULTIPLE TRANSITIONS
In addition to regular paper submissions, the ELG 2026 Conference also welcomes proposals for Invited Sessions that bring together researchers working on emerging or specialized topics aligned with the conference theme “Systemic Sustainability: Analysis and Policy Design in the Age of Multiple Transitions.”
An invited session typically consists of 3–4 papers organized around a coherent research theme and coordinated by a session organizer. Proposals should include the session title, a brief description of the topic (approximately 200–300 words), the names and affiliations of the organizer(s), and a list of proposed speakers with tentative paper titles (Proposal template provided).
Proposals for invited sessions should be submitted through the conference website at elg.ueh.edu.vn or to elg@ueh.edu.vn. All invited session proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee.
Session Organizer
Name: Professor Su Dinh Thanh
Affiliation: School of Public Finance, CELG, UEH
Country: Vietnam
Email: dinhthanh@ueh.edu.vn
Phone (if available): +84918089659
Short Bio: Dr Su Dinh Thanh is (full) Professor of Public Finance at the School of Public Finance, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam. He was awarded his PhD in 2002 at UEH. He teaches several courses in Public Finance and Public Policy. He also works as a Policy Consultant for the Vietnamese government and international institutes, such as the World Bank and UNDP. His research areas include Public Finance, Institutional Economics and Public Policy. He has several publications in these areas. His current interests are in fiscal policy, institutional economics, and sustainability.
Session Description
In the world of changing, there are several emerging challenges ranging from political risk, climate change, uncertainty, production transition toward automation to structural changes within every nation. This session presents some observations and analyses on these new challenges and the influences on macroeconomic policy implications. Specifically, this session focuses on automation in production and how it impacts on the economy and macroeconomic policies. This session also concerns to smart specialisation of the economy and how institutions would be adopted and adjusted. Besides, this session would consider how monetary policy or fiscal policy change in a vulnerable world. At last, any paper in related topics can be considered for presentation in this session.
Session Organizer
Name: Van Cuong Dang
Affiliation: School of Public Finance, CELG, UEH
Country: Viet Nam
Email: dangcuong@ueh.edu.vn
Phone (if available): 0909625216
Short Bio (3–5 lines): I am an Associate Professor at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH). I received my PhD degree in 2017 from UEH and have been working here for about 20 years. Currently, I teach courses such as Government Budget and Finance, Financial Accounting of Public Organizations, and Tax Accounting. My main research interests focus on fiscal policies, tax reform, and budgeting for climate change adaptation.
Session Description
In the context of a global economy facing numerous complex disruptions, ranging from the lingering consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine conflict to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, economies worldwide are under substantial pressure from inflation, supply chain disruptions, and energy crises. These factors not only heighten the risk of economic recession but also pose urgent challenges to the policy management capacity of governments. In response to this situation, governments across countries have been implementing a wide range of public finance instruments in a coordinated manner, including adjustments to fiscal policy, the use of reserve funds, and coordination with monetary policy to stabilize the macroeconomy and support growth recovery. However, the effectiveness of these policies remains widely debated and continues to involve potential risks. Therefore, studying public finance in the new era is of great academic and practical significance, as it helps provide a scientific foundation for designing policies that can adapt to an increasingly volatile global environment.
Session Organizer
Name: Assoc. Prof. Bui Thi Mai Hoai
Affiliation: UEH Sustainable Finance Institute
Country: Viet Nam
Email: maihoai@ueh.edu.vn
Short Bio: Bui Thi Mai Hoai is an Associate Professor with over 30 years of experience in teaching and research in sustainable finance, sustainable management, banking and finance, and public finance at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently the Director of the Institute of Sustainable Finance at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), a pioneer in interdisciplinary research initiatives on sustainable development and circular economy applications. Previously, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Public Finance at UEH. The integration of diverse areas of expertise with practical experience in consulting for businesses and the public sector has equipped her with interdisciplinary knowledge and thinking, enabling her to take on roles that require linking economic goals with sustainable development and conducting comprehensive assessments of environmental and social impacts, with a strong emphasis on multi-stakeholder participation. She has developed numerous training programs ranging from short courses to bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels at UEH. She has also designed and implemented Training-of-Trainers programs in collaboration with international organizations on climate change, governance, and sustainable finance to build faculty capacity for universities across Vietnam. In addition, she has published extensively in prestigious journals and contributed to numerous international projects on sustainable development, governance, and sustainable finance.
Session Description
This session examines the systemic integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks within emerging market enterprises. As these economies navigate complex transitions, aligning corporate governance with global sustainability standards is vital for attracting capital and building resilience. It welcomes both conceptual and empirical studies on ESG integration in transitioning contexts, including ESG strategy, governance transformation, and sustainable finance, as well as the role of regulatory frameworks. Contributions focusing on firm-level practices, measurement challenges, and trade-offs between short-term performance and long-term sustainability are especially encouraged, with an emphasis on practical insights for policymakers and corporate leaders.
Session Organizer
Name: Assoc. Prof. Le Huu Quynh Anh
Affiliation: UEH Sustainable Finance Institute
Country: Viet Nam
Email: anhlhq@ueh.edu.vn
Short Bio (3–5 lines): Assoc. Prof. Le Huu Quynh Anh is a distinguished lecturer and researcher with over ten years of experience in chemical technology and environmental science. She specializes in nanomaterials for wastewater treatment and leads national and international projects focused on urban water security. Additionally, she worked on greenhouse gas inventories and carbon footprint analyses, as well as on developing strategic Net Zero roadmaps for products and organizations. An accomplished author with more than 30 scientific publications, Dr. Quynh Anh also serves as a trainer, helping organizations understand global reporting standards and GHG reporting regulations.
Session Description
This session explores technological pathways to environmental sustainability, including decarbonization, water management, and biodiversity conservation. It examines the potential and limits of green innovation—such as renewable energy, clean technologies, and nature-based solutions—in addressing complex environmental challenges. The session welcomes conceptual and empirical studies on innovation, technology adoption, and policy frameworks, with a focus on scalability, trade-offs, and context-specific insights for transitioning and emerging economies.
Session Organizer
Name: Dr. Pham Thai Binh
Affiliation: UEH Sustainable Finance Institute
Country: Viet Nam
Email: binhpt@ueh.edu.vn
Short Bio (3–5 lines): Dr. Pham Thai Binh is a lecturer and Vice Dean of the UEH Sustainable Finance Institute at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. With an interdisciplinary background spanning applied economics, banking and finance, and chemical engineering, he leverages over 15 years of experience in the chemical industry, which enriches his applied research and policy‑oriented perspectives. His work focuses on macroeconomics, DSGE modelling, public finance, environmental and energy economics, and productivity analysis. He has published extensively in international peer‑reviewed journals and contributes actively as a reviewer. Beyond academia, Dr. Pham engages in consultancy and executive training, including green finance programs and capacity‑building projects.
Session Description
This session explores how governance systems shape sustainability transitions, focusing on interactions between public institutions and local stakeholders. As top-down regulations often face regional constraints, adaptive and context-sensitive institutional design becomes critical. Discussions will examine multi-level governance, economic incentives, and regulatory frameworks in guiding diverse actors toward sustainable practices, to build resilient coordination mechanisms for complex challenges.
Session Organizer
Name: Tran Ha Quyen
Affiliation: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Country: Vietnam
Email: quyentran@ueh.edu.vn
Phone: 0979020293
Short Bio: MA. Quyen Ha Tran is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economic Statistics. Her research interests focus on applied statistics and data analysis in business, economics, and environment.
Session Description
This session brings together cutting-edge research at the interface of nonlinear partial differential equations, stochastic analysis, and dynamical systems, with applications spanning mathematical finance and economic modeling. The contributions highlight how modern analytical techniques can address complex systems characterized by nonlocal interactions, discontinuities, and nonlinear growth behaviors.
Paper 1 investigates fully nonlocal diffusion equations on bounded domains, focusing on sharp LpL^pLp-decay estimates and the asymptotic behavior of solutions. Such nonlocal models are increasingly relevant for describing anomalous diffusion processes where classical local operators fail to capture long-range interactions. By establishing precise decay rates, this work contributes to a deeper understanding of stability and long-term dynamics in nonlocal systems, with potential implications across physics, biology, and quantitative modeling.
Paper 2 addresses a central challenge in financial mathematics: hedging in markets driven by jump processes. Within the framework of exponential Lévy models, the study proposes a weighted BMO approach to analyze discrete-time hedging errors. Moving beyond traditional L2L^2L2-based methods, it derives LpL^pLp-estimates (for p>2p>2p>2) that better capture tail risks—an essential consideration in turbulent markets. The introduction of a jump-adapted discretization scheme further ensures asymptotically optimal convergence rates, offering both theoretical innovation and practical relevance for risk management.
Paper 3 explores elliptic problems involving sandwich-type growth, an intermediate regime between sublinear and superlinear nonlinearities that presents significant analytical challenges. Using advanced variational methods, including concentration-compactness principles and genus theory, the study establishes existence and multiplicity results for solutions in both critical and supercritical cases. This work extends the theory of nonlinear elliptic equations, particularly for generalized (p,q)(p,q)(p,q)-Laplacian and Kirchhoff-type problems, and provides new tools for handling complex growth conditions.
Paper 4 applies nonlinear dynamical systems theory to model the interaction between bank deposits and loans. By formulating the system as a set of ordinary differential equations inspired by predator–prey dynamics, the study identifies key bifurcation thresholds—such as transcritical and Hopf bifurcations—that govern system stability. The findings offer valuable insights into credit dynamics, regulatory constraints, and systemic risk in banking systems, bridging mathematical theory with real-world economic applications.
Overall, this session underscores the unifying role of advanced mathematical analysis in understanding complex dynamic systems. From abstract theoretical developments to applied financial and economic models, the presented works demonstrate how nonlinear and stochastic methods can provide rigorous foundations for analyzing stability, risk, and long-term behavior in diverse contexts.
Session Organizer
Name: Tran Ha Quyen
Affiliation: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Country: Vietnam
Email: quyentran@ueh.edu.vn
Phone: 0979020293
Short Bio: MA. Quyen Ha Tran is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economic Statistics. Her research interests focus on applied statistics and data analysis in business, economics, and environment.
Session Description
This session brings together recent advances in machine learning, time series analysis, and data-driven modeling, with applications spanning financial forecasting, nonlinear physical systems, and risk management. The selected papers illustrate how modern computational techniques can enhance predictive performance and deepen our understanding of complex systems characterized by structural changes, nonlinearity, and uncertainty.
Paper 1 addresses a fundamental limitation of adaptive forecasting models in finance—the adaptation-lag problem that arises after prolonged stable periods. The authors propose a retrieval-augmented framework that integrates a financial conditions index to identify historically similar macro-financial regimes. By applying reliability-gated corrections based on retrieved past errors, the model improves directional forecasting performance around policy-induced regime shifts. This work highlights the potential of context-aware and memory-based learning in enhancing financial prediction under structural breaks.
Paper 2 complements this contribution by focusing on model selection in time series forecasting when both long memory and structural breaks are present. Through a combination of simulation experiments and empirical analysis, the study evaluates ARFIMA models, structural break models, and hybrid approaches based on out-of-sample accuracy. The findings provide practical guidance for selecting appropriate models under uncertainty, emphasizing the trade-offs between capturing persistence and adapting to regime changes.
Extending the scope beyond finance, Paper 3 explores the application of neural networks to nonlinear partial differential equations governing water wave propagation. By employing multilayer neural networks, the study derives soliton solutions to a high-dimensional generalized Kadomtsev–Petviashvili–Boussinesq equation. This demonstrates how machine learning can serve as an alternative computational tool for analyzing complex nonlinear systems, complementing traditional symbolic and analytical methods.
Paper 4 returns to financial applications by examining deep hedging strategies for multi-asset derivatives under transaction costs. The study compares classical stochastic models with a data-driven Schrödinger Bridge generator, showing that the latter can significantly reduce hedging risk in typical market conditions. However, the absence of a clear winner during stress periods underscores the ongoing challenges in modeling extreme financial events.
Overall, this session showcases the growing importance of machine learning and data-driven approaches in both theoretical and applied contexts. By bridging econometrics, financial engineering, and nonlinear science, the presented works offer valuable insights into forecasting, system dynamics, and risk management in complex environments.
Session Organizer
Name: Assoc. Prof. Dr. NGUYEN LE HOANG THUY TO QUYEN & Dr. PHAM QUANG ANH THU
Affiliation: School of Government, CELG, UEH
Country: Vietnam
Email: quyennlhtt@ueh.edu.vn; thupqa@ueh.edu.vn
Phone (if available):
Short Bio (3–5 lines):
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Le Hoang Thuy To Quyen and Dr. Pham Quang Anh Thu are researchers at the School of Government, UEH, specializing in public policy, development economics, and governance in emerging economies. Their work focuses on labor markets, population aging, inequality, and digital transformation, with a strong emphasis on policy design for inclusive and sustainable development in Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Session Description
In the context of multiple and overlapping transitions, including demographic change, rural transformation, and digitalization, emerging economies face increasingly complex challenges in achieving systemic sustainability. This invited session contributes to the conference theme “Systemic Sustainability: Analysis and Policy Design in the Age of Multiple Transitions” by examining how micro-level behaviors, labor structures, and local economic dynamics interact to shape broader patterns of inequality, resilience, and governance.
The session brings together four complementary studies that collectively explore the interplay between labor vulnerability, rural development, organizational behavior, and market governance in Vietnam. Taken together, these papers offer a multi-dimensional perspective on how economic and social systems adapt under structural pressures.
At the individual level, the session highlights the intersection between health, employment conditions, and income security among vulnerable populations. In particular, the persistence of informal employment among older female workers creates compounded risks, where declining health translates more directly into income loss due to limited social protection. This “double vulnerability” underscores the importance of integrating labor market policies with social protection systems in aging and unequal contexts.
At the community and regional level, the session examines the role of local enterprises in fostering inclusive growth in rural areas. In settings characterized by limited access to resources and persistent poverty, local firms emerge as important drivers of income diversification and livelihood creation. By generating employment and supporting household resilience, enterprise development plays a critical role in advancing sustainable development outcomes in disadvantaged regions.
At the organizational level, the session further explores how prosocial motivation and leader-follower value congruence shape interpersonal citizenship behavior within the public sector. Such discretionary behaviors contribute to organizational effectiveness, social cohesion, and the quality of public service delivery-factors that are essential for adaptive governance in times of transition.
Finally, at the systemic level, the session extends the analysis to digital markets, where consumer behavior increasingly functions as a form of informal governance. In highly connected environments, negative consumer reactions, such as brand hate and boycott behavior, can escalate rapidly and influence market stability. The session highlights the role of behavioral mechanisms, such as brand forgiveness, in mitigating these dynamics and maintaining systemic resilience.
Overall, the session provides an integrated analytical framework linking individual vulnerabilities, local development processes, organizational behavior, and market-level governance. By bridging these levels, it aims to generate insights into how policies and institutions can be designed to promote inclusive, adaptive, and resilient systems in the face of ongoing socio-economic transformations.
Session Organizer
Name: Vo Doan Tho
Affiliation: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Country: Vietnam
Email: doantho@ueh.edu.vn
Phone (if available): 0982330091
Short Bio (3–5 lines):
Session Description
This invited session, titled “Sustainable ESP Education in the Age of Transformation: A Systemic Case from UEH,” examines the development and implementation of a large-scale English for Specific Purposes (ESP) program at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) over a three-year period. In the context of rapid economic, digital, and educational transformations, higher education institutions are increasingly required to align language education with disciplinary knowledge and labor market demands. This session responds directly to the conference theme of Systemic Sustainability by presenting ESP not merely as a pedagogical approach, but as a systemic solution for sustainable curriculum development.
The UEH ESP program is structured into three progressive modules includingGeneral Business English, ESP 1, and ESP 2, and is differentiated into four disciplinary tracks: English for Business, Economics, Law, and Technology, Design, and Communication. Each track is led by a subject-specific coordinator, allowing for both standardization at the program level and contextualization at the disciplinary level. Drawing on insights from multiple coordinators, the session explores how a multi-track ESP model can be designed, implemented, and sustained within a large institutional setting.
The session addresses the following key questions: How can ESP programs be systematically structured across disciplines? What challenges emerge in scaling ESP implementation? How do pedagogical practices vary across disciplinary contexts? And what policy implications can be drawn for curriculum governance and institutional sustainability? By integrating empirical reflections and program-level analysis, this session offers evidence-based insights into the opportunities and constraints of ESP implementation in higher education. It aims to inform policy discussions on curriculum innovation, teacher development, and institutional strategies for sustainable language education in the age of multiple transitions.
Session Organizer
Name: Vo Doan Tho
Affiliation: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Country: Vietnam
Email: doantho@ueh.edu.vn
Phone (if available): 0982330091
Short Bio (3–5 lines):
Session Description
This invited session, “Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Language Education: Insights from Five National Contexts,” explores how language education can contribute to environmental sustainability through curriculum design, pedagogy, and policy innovation. The session is inspired by the TESOL Exchange Program on Environmental Conservation and Sustainability, which brought together English language educators from multiple countries to examine the role of education in addressing global environmental challenges.
In the context of increasing environmental crises and the global push toward sustainable development, language education is emerging as a critical site for fostering environmental awareness, intercultural understanding, and responsible citizenship. This session responds to the conference theme of Systemic Sustainability by examining how environmental content can be meaningfully integrated into language teaching across diverse national contexts.
The session is structured around five contributions. The opening paper provides a conceptual and literature-based review of environmental awareness in language education, with a particular focus on the Vietnamese context. It examines current practices, challenges, and opportunities for integrating sustainability into English language curricula. The subsequent four papers present case studies from the Philippines, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Kazakhstan, each highlighting localized approaches to incorporating environmental themes into language teaching and learning.
The session addresses the following key questions: How is environmental awareness conceptualized and implemented in language education across different contexts? What pedagogical strategies are used to integrate sustainability into language teaching? What challenges and opportunities arise in different institutional and cultural settings? And what policy implications can be drawn for promoting sustainable language education globally?
By offering comparative and context-sensitive insights, this session aims to contribute to policy and pedagogical discussions on the role of language education in advancing sustainability agendas worldwide.
