Institutional frameworks, curated for contemporary governance.

Domestic Migration Patterns and Their Impact on Transportation Congestion in the Philippines

Julliand Caleb B. Da Jose, Francis Lee Y. Martinez

Department of Economics and Public Policy, San Beda University

An OLS study of migration, growth and congestion in the National Capital Region from 2012 to 2018, building a Transport Congestion Index from vehicle density, accident rates and average daily traffic. Cumulative migration and regional GDP growth raise congestion — arguing that infrastructure must answer cumulative structural demand, not just annual population increases.

A Proposed Conceptual Framework for the One Stop Shop for the Jobseekers of Caloocan City – South

Francis Lee Y. Martinez

Department of Economics and Public Policy, San Beda University

A decentralised service-delivery framework for the estimated 7,000 jobseekers of Caloocan City – South, who must currently visit SSS, NBI, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, BIR and PSA separately. Draws on the city’s six years of Business One Stop Shop experience to argue the model can be extended to pre-employment requirements.

Leadership and Communication Strategies: A Case Study During the Covid-19 Transition on Public-Facing Communications within the Department of Education

Francis Lee Martinez, Dennis Mangubat

International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 6 No. 3

Survey and interview evidence on how public school teachers rate DepEd’s official issuances — the documents that anchor their own public-facing communication. Communication flow on initiatives and community projects performs satisfactorily; teacher-support communication does not, and the study proposes a feedback mechanism built around teacher perspectives.

A Strategic Marketing Communication Plan: A Proposal for the Philippine National Police During the Covid-19 Public Health Implementation

Francis Lee Martinez, Dennis Mangubat

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 10 No. 6

A communication plan for the PNP as an enforcer of health protocols during a public health emergency — objectives, audience analysis, key messaging, channels and evaluation, aligned to both the police mandate and national public health objectives.

Impact Assessment of Community Engagement Programs of San Beda University in Pactil, Bauko, Mountain Province

Neil Angelo C. Halcon, Rulina B. Viloria

Bedan Research Journal, Vol. 8

An ex-post impact assessment, following the OECD framework and the UNDG-UNDAF theory of change, of the University’s engagement with the St. Bede Mushroom and Vegetable Growers Association. Beneficiaries are willing and able to run the programs themselves; spiritual impact scored highest and economic impact lowest, supporting a phased turnover to the local government unit.

Sustainable Practices of Selected Publicly-Listed Higher Educational Institutions in Ensuring Good Health and Well-Being

Rulina B. Viloria

Bedan Research Journal, Vol. 7

A qualitative exploratory study of two publicly-listed Philippine higher education institutions, measuring sustainability practices that ensure good health and well-being through research output, health-profession course offerings, and collaborations and health services. Built on health, well-being, sustainable development and stakeholder theory, using 2020 annual and sustainability reports as source data.

Effects of Monetary Policy on Philippine Sovereign Bond Yield

Aris C. Zoleta

Estimates the transmission of policy shocks to short- and long-term government bond yields using a small-scale VAR, with a New Keynesian model to endogenise interest rate dynamics. Monetary policy moves real long-term yields more than short-term ones; a Bayesian VAR resolves the price puzzle the standard specification exhibits.

Real Business Cycles in the Philippines

Aris C. Zoleta, Paul Argamoso

SSRN Working Paper

Characterises three Philippine business cycles between 1977 and 2016 using Hodrick-Prescott and Baxter-King band-pass filters. The 1977–1983 cycle, spanning the balance-of-payments crisis, is the most volatile; the 1997–2016 cycle the least.

The Great Financial Crisis and How the Philippines Got Away From It

Aris C. Zoleta

Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment

Documents why the Philippines escaped the worst of the 2008 crisis through neither financial nor trade linkage, unlike other emerging economies that saw output fall, unemployment rise and capital inflows slow — an account of contagion and transmission that the trade- and welfare-focused literature leaves unexplained.

ASEAN Financial Integration without Monetary Union

Aris C. Zoleta

Journal of Global Business Conference, De La Salle University

Reviews the European experience of regional financial integration to ask how the ASEAN Economic Community can deliver capital account and financial service liberalisation — and how the region would resolve a future crisis — without a common currency.