This paper investigates the association between Hong Kong politically connected firms and their cost of debt. We extend the knowledge of this association by comparing our results with those of Bliss and Gul (2012) who used Malaysian data to examine it. We find that Hong Kong politically...

The study is to investigate the importance of institutional forces to shape the investment activities of VC firms in China, India, Japan and Hong Kong and has reached a few of interesting findings. Firstly, in China and India, the venture capital funding is focused on early-stage ventures and...