This working paper raises the question whether Hong Kong's housing problems for young people can be solved. Unlike Singapore which maintains a highly diversified manufacturing sector, Hong Kong has moved its manufacturing sector to the Mainland. The imbalanced economic structure which heavily...

Although China's housing affordability issue has been the subject of numerous studies, this paper adopts an improved price-to-income ratio to better reveal and assess the status of housing affordability in China over time. Two research questions will be discussed: (i) Is there a housing...

This paper, using data from 100 UK listed firms, investigates the relationship between audit committee characteristics and intellectual capital (IC) disclosure. We find that IC disclosure is positively associated with audit committee characteristics of size and frequency of meetings, and...

This paper studies the effect of adding space to existing housing apartments on housing price and the probability that owners will sell their apartment (flat). This space adding is part of a large scale urban renewal and upgrading policy in Singapore, and is carried out only if sufficient...

In this paper, we build on a rational expectation model to study the economic consequences of a firm's choice of disclosure audience in a market with heterogenous traders in terms of information processing abilities. Through costly expertise acquisition, some traders become sophisticated and can...

Globally, independent living and asset accumulation used to be among the major considerations for young people wanting to acquire ownership of their homes. Yet today in Hong Kong as well as in other developed economies, a reduced level of home ownership and young people delaying the formation of...

On the basis of a hand-collected sample of 123 Chinese law firms, this article offers a comprehensive empirical examination into their globalization efforts. It finds that the majority of the firms have endeavoured to expand overseas than not. The most frequently used strategies are...