Recent global financial dislocation has provided an impetus for examining effective avenues for the resolution of financial disputes. Hong Kong, like many financial centers throughout the world, has been directly affected by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Its response to the collapse has...

This paper studies the relation among real stock returns, real capital flows and real exchange rate starting from a theoretical model. The model predicts that the capital inflows affect the real exchange rate and stock returns. Besides, there is an asymmetry between the effect of capital inflows...

This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...