The safety performance of apartment buildings : empirical evidence from Hong Kong

In the balance-of-payments-constrained growth model literature, income elasticities (IEs) are considered as the crucial element determining a country's long-run growth rate. Although the extant literature accepts that technology matters for IEs magnitude, explanations linking technology and IEs magnitude are limited. In this paper, we make use of the National Innovation System (NIS) concept from the Evolutionary School to explain the channels through which the size of a country's IEs is influenced by the level of development of its NIS, which in turn is a channel through which the non-price competitiveness factors work. Additionally, we empirically test the hypothesis that the catch-up allowed by NIS developments achieved in South Korea and Hong Kong improved their IEs over the 1980–1995 period. Our empirical results suggest a link between the level of NIS development and the size of the IEs.

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Depolarization through social media use: Evidence from dual identifiers in Hong Kong

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444820910124 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (8) ◽

pp. 1339-1358 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tetsuro Kobayashi

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Political Participation ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Media Use ◽

Social Identities ◽

The Political ◽

Social Media Use ◽

Dual Identities ◽

Use Of Social Media

Despite the concern that partisan selectivity in the political use of social media leads to mass polarization, the empirical evidence is mixed at best. Given the possibility that these inconclusive findings are attributable to moderators in the process that have not been adequately studied, this article elaborates the roles played by different forms of social identities. By analyzing three datasets collected in Hong Kong, where Chinese and Hong Kongese identities are constructed in a nonmutually exclusive way, this study demonstrates that (1) partisan selectivity in media use is reliably detected among those with single Hong Kongese identity, but not among those with dual identities of Hong Kongese and Chinese, (2) the political use of social media polarizes the attitudes and affects of single identifiers, whereas it has depolarizing effects on dual identifiers, and (3) these contrasting effects on polarization between single and dual identifiers have downstream consequences for political participation.

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The Admission and Regulation of Overseas Issuers

The Oxford Handbook of IPOs ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190614577.013.30 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 651-675

Author(s):

Horace Yeung

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Host Country ◽

Investor Protection ◽

Listed Companies ◽

The Third ◽

Current State ◽

Cross Listing ◽

Regulatory Cooperation

This chapter examines the potential discrepancies in the regulation applied to overseas issuers, as opposed to domestic issuers, of four leading financial centers. They are New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It consists of three substantive sections. The first section will reviews existing literature and empirical evidence concerning the motivations and current state of cross-listing. The second section examines the listing route for an overseas issuer and inquires how it might differ from a domestic listing in the host country. This chapter particularly concerns the potential discrepancies of rules between a foreign listing and a domestic listing and asks if those discrepancies would lead to better or inferior investor protection. The third section examines the continuing regulation of foreign-listed companies, reviewing some regulatory concerns involving cross-listed companies and discussing what can be done to curb the problems, for instance, through regulatory cooperation between home and host regulators.

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