This paper studies the impact of a regulatory change of listing rules on the long-term IPO performance in the Hong Kong stock market. This regulatory change, introduced in 1994, imposed a three-year prelisting earning requirement on new issues. Our sample includes 287 IPOs registered on the Hong...

This study considers the impact of a change to listing rules covering IPO performance in the Hong Kong stock market. The change, introduced in 1994, imposed a three-year pre-listing earning requirement on new issues. The objective of this research is to screen out a subset of poor IPO...

The author examine the effect of corporate domicile of Hong Kong companies to other countries that were motivated by a desire to reduce political risk. They argue that political risk is too subjective a concept to be exposed to systematic quantitative analysis. The authors provide empirical...