We utilize a fundamentally different model of trading costs to look at the effect of the opening of the Hong Kong Shanghai Connect that links the stock exchanges in the two cities, arguably the biggest event in international business and finance since Christopher Columbus set sail for India. We...

Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's phenomenal book, Outliers, which talks about the possibility of paddy fields being the perfect place to cultivate mathematics into our genes, we consider an unintended yet welcome consequence of having numerous characters in a writing script (1, 2), towards...