SAMRETH Sovannroeun

Ph.D (Economics), Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan, March 2009
MA (Economics), Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan, March 2005
BA (Economics), Faculty of Economics, Osaka University, Japan, March 2003

Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University, Japan, April 2024-Present.
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University, Japan, April 2013-March2024.
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University, Japan, April 2011-March 2013.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan, April 2009-March 2011.
Research Fellow, Global Centers of Excellence (GCOE), Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan, October 2008-March 2009.
Visiting Fellow, Cambodia Development Research Institute (CDRI), Cambodia, October 2023-Present
Visiting Fellow, JICA Research Institute (current JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development), Japan, July 2019-Present.
Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, USA, September 2016-December 2016.
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Development Studies, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 2016-August 2016.

Okada, K. and Samreth, S.: “Do Political Regimes Matter for Technology Diffusion?” Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Vol. 15, pp. 3409-3422, 2024.

Samreth, S., Aiba, D., Oeur, S. and Vat, V.: “Impact of the Interest Rate Ceiling on Credit Cost, Loan Size, and Informal Credit in the Microfinance Sector: Evidence from a Household Survey in Cambodia,” Empirical Economics, Vol. 65, pp. 1037-1067, 2023.

Samreth, S., Okuda, H. and Ojima, Y.: “Development and Structure of Dollarization in Cambodia,”
Chapter 1 in: Okuda, H. and Chea, S. eds. ‘Cambodian Dollarization Its Policy Implications for LDCs’ Financial Development’, Routledge: pp. 10-37, 2023.

Okada, K. and Samreth, S.: “Oil Bonanza and the Composition of Government Expenditure,” Economics of Governance, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 23-46, 2021.

Samreth, S., Sanchez-Martin, E. M. and Sodeth, L.: “Dollarization Dilemma: Price Stability at the Cost of External Competitiveness in Cambodia,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No.8893, 2019.

Kotera, G., Mizuno, N., Okada, K. and Samreth, S.: “Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Health: Theory and Evidence,” Research in Economics, Vol. 69, pp. 353-376, 2015.

Okada, K. and Samreth, S.: “The Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption: A Quantile Regression Approach,” Economics Letters, Vol. 115, pp. 240-243, 2012.

Samreth, S. “An Empirical Examination on the Hysteresis of Currency Substitution in Cambodia,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 22, pp. 518-527, 2011.

Samreth, S. “Currency Substitution and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation: The Case of Cambodia,” Applied Economics, Vol. 42, pp. 1907-1916, 2010.

East Asian Economic Association, Japan Society of Monetary Economics, Japan Society for International Development, Cambodian Economic Association