Tags : Economic Policy

About 10 results
The Political Economy of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China
The Xi-Li administration faces the dual challenge of managing state capitalism and shadow banking as China enters a phase of more moderate economic growth. During China’s first three decades of reform, private sector development occurred in parallel with prioritization of state-owned enterprises in strategic ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/tsai-the-political-economy-of-state-capitalism-and-shadow-banking-in-china
Political Volatility and Capital Markets: Evidence from Transition
This paper looks at the effects of political volatility in transition economies to ascertain how nascent political institutions affect fledgling capital markets. Asymmetric (GJR) GARCH modeling of monthly data was taken for 21 transition economies on financial volatility, political volatility, and monetary policy to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/hartwell-political-volatility-and-capital-markets-evidence-from-transition
What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms
On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms from the ambit of formal U.S. antifraud enforcement. We use this legal surprise as a natural experiment to test the legal ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/licht-what-makes-the-bonding-stick-a-natural-experiment-involving-the-u.s.-supreme-court-and-cross-listed-firms
Pathways to Sustainable Urbanization in Emerging Economy
More than 50% of the world’s population now lives in cities and that figure is set to rise to 75% by 2050. Global urbanization has long since shifted to developing countries and emerging economies. In order to make urbanization beneficial, policy making must reconcile the objectives of economic efficiency with ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2013/zhao-pathways-to-sustainable-urbanization
University Matching Fund for Technology Transfer in the Context of Output-thinking
A successful university matching fund to facilitate technology transfer in Hong Kong’s universities can be achieved by combining resources as input and an “output-thinking” approach. Hong Kong’s current university matching fund rewards universities with the longest history and the largest ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/university-matching-fund-for-technology-transfer-in-the-context-of-output-thinking
city image