GROUP ASSIGNMENT TOPICS

1. Money and development of money in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, function of money, and other contents.

• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: the history of Vietnam's currency development, the
function-role of monetary forms in economic-financial development, the potential of the future
monetary form in Vietnam, the development of monetary forms in Vietnam compared to the
world; methods-formula for measuring money supply in Vietnam (this is a required content) and
other contents.

2. Interest rate movements in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, measurement, role in the economy, and other contents.

• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: important interest rate indicators, changes in interest
rates over time (both real and nominal interest rates, graphing), the roles in the economy and
the impacts to the economy during those periods, and other contents.

3. Factors affecting interest rates in Vietnam

Suggested content:

• Theories: definition, measurement, behavior and influencing factors, and other contents.
• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: important interest rate indicators, factors affecting
interest rates, the impact of the State Bank of Vietnam and commercial banks on interest rates,
and other contents.

4. Financial markets in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, role, characteristics, structure, tools, and other contents.

• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: formation and development, operation, market structure,
tools, assessing the development-advantages-limitations of the financial markets (based on
criteria: completeness, diversity and development as compared to modern financial system) and
other contents.

5. Financial intermediaries in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, role, function, characteristics, types, and other contents.

 • Understanding the reality of Vietnam: formation and development, activities, types, roles in the
economy, assessing the development-advantages-limitations of financial intermediaries (based
on the criteria: completeness, diversity and development as compared to financial
intermediaries in the world) and other contents.

6. Commercial banks and their balance sheets in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, roles, functions, characteristics, profit-making activities, and other

contents.
• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: number of banks, size, activities, role in the economy-
finance, balance sheet of a bank in 1 year (explaining/discussing main items), and other
contents.

7. Principles of commercial bank management in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, roles, functions, characteristics of commercial banks; management

principles, and other contents.
• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: stating the current regulations, principles and laws on
commercial bank management in Vietnam that are still valid, such as laws on banking
establishment and management, and laws on banking operation, related circulars and decrees,
especially in the context of the Covid epidemic; then compare to theory and assess how
effective these regulations are, and other contents.

8. Central Bank in Vietnam (the State Bank of Vietnam)

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, role, function, characteristics and other contents.

• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: roles, functions, tasks, tools, characteristics, formation
and development, balance sheet in 1 year (introducing main items) and other contents.

9. Monetary Policy in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: definition, objectives, characteristics, tools, mechanism and other contents.

• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: objectives, characteristics, tools, impacts on the economy,
monetary policy over time, monetary policy management, effectiveness of monetary policy and other
contents.
10. Money supply process in Vietnam

Suggested contents:

• Theories: players, mechanisms, factors determining, roles of central banks and commercial banks and
other contents.

• Understanding the reality of Vietnam: characteristics and reality of the money supply process in
Vietnam, the players in the process, the factors affecting the money supply, measuring the money
supply in Vietnam, the role of central banks and commercial banks in this process and other contents.