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A Tale of Three Stock Markets: Timing Between Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen
Tourani‐Rad, Alireza; YI, Ye - In: Managerial Finance 30 (2004) 7, pp. 60-77
This paper looks at one relatively less‐visited issue in market timing: switching investments on common stocks between different stock markets, namely, “intermarket timing”. By employing the stock price data for the period of 1992‐2002 from a developed market, Hong Kong, and two emerging...
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Volatility in Asian stock markets and global financial crisis
Singhania, Monica; Anchalia, Jugal - In: Journal of Advances in Management Research 10 (2013) 3, pp. 333-351
affected critically. An attempt is made to study the volatility of stock returns in this paper. The authors studied the impact … of global crisis on volatility of stock returns; that can help in better policy selection and implementation in the … understanding of Asian Markets. Design/methodology/approach – Impact on volatility of stock market returns of Hong Kong, Japan …
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Financial applications of ARMA models with GARCH errors
Ghahramani, M.; Thavaneswaran, A. - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 7 (2006) 5, pp. 525-543
principal method used for the research. The results were also illustrated using examples and simulation studies. Volatility … statistical properties of volatility modeling.  …
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949–1988 / Blut, Schweiß, Tränen: Aufstieg und Niedergang der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft, 1949–1988
Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Leonard - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 4, pp. 438-452
Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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Management practices and modeling the seasonal variation in health care waste
Thakur, Vikas; Anbanandam, Ramesh - In: Journal of Modelling in Management 12 (2017) 1, pp. 162-174
Purpose Management of hazardous waste is a big challenge to a common biomedical waste treatment facility (CBWTF) because of variations in the amount of different kinds of waste collected and treated from various health-care facilities (HCFs). Hence, prediction of health-care waste (HCW) will be...
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Law and Finance: What Matters? Hong Kong as a Test Case
Yeung, Horace; Huang, Flora Xiao - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 3 (2012) 1
This paper, using Hong Kong as a test case, challenges one conventional theory and confirms another one in law and finance study: (i) legal families in relation to stock market development; (ii) transplant effect of foreign laws. Economists, most notably La Porta and colleagues, allege that...
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Dynamic Panel Analysis of Construction Accidents in Hong Kong
Li, Rita Yi Man; Chau, Kwong Wing; Ho, Daniel Chi Wing - In: Asian Journal of Law and Economics 8 (2017) 3
Abstract The construction industry is one of the riskiest industries with a large number of deaths and injuries every year. Large amounts of money are spent annually on workers’ compensation. Thus, it is important to investigate the factors which affect accident compensation in the eyes of...
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Implementation of Triple P‐Positive Parenting Program in Hong Kong: predictors of programme completion and clinical outcomes
Leung, Cynthia; Sanders, Matthew; Ip, Francis; Lau, Joseph - In: Journal of Children's Services 1 (2006) 2, pp. 4-17
This study examined the effectiveness of the Triple P‐Positive Parenting Program in a government child health service delivery context with Chinese parents in Hong Kong. Specifically, the study sought to identify pre‐intervention variables that might predict programme outcomes such as level...
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Business managers' work value changes through down economies
Selmer, Jan; Littrell, Romie - In: Journal of Chinese Human Resources Management 1 (2010) 1, pp. 31-48
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate changes in the relative importance to individuals of particular work values during the deterioration of external economic conditions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employed longitudinal field survey techniques, comparing the...
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Public reporting of HRM practices among selected Hong Kong companies
Chan, Juni; Burgess, John - In: Journal of Chinese Human Resources Management 1 (2010) 2, pp. 115-127
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and scope of corporate public reporting of human resource management (HRM) practices in selected Hong Kong companies, to identify the extent and emphasis in the reporting systems. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was...
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