ERES:conference

Land supply in Hong Kong was restricted to 50 hectares (ha) per annum according to the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984. Such restriction was in force until the handover of Hong Kong to China in June 1997. This study examines the implications of such restriction on government land sales...

Previous studies on the price-volume relationship focus only on the total volume of transactions without taking into account of the nature of these transactions. While this is a reasonable approach for financial markets, such approach may have ignore some important information in the property...

This study investigates the effects of political uncertainty associated with the 1997 repossession of Hong Kong by China on the real estate market. Such effect is reflected in the change in the real estate risk premiums. A model is derived to estimate the trend of real estate risk premium for...

This study examines the existence of excess returns of the office, retail and industrial real estate sectors in Hong Kong using time series of both valuations and transaction prices. The analysis covers the period from 1980 to 1995. If valuations are an accurate reflection of transaction prices...

A distinctive feature of mortgages as assets is the existence of prepayment risk, typically viewed as a borrower’s call option to pay the outstanding mortgage balance at any time during the term. While previous research identified important causes for prepayment, these studies are mostly based...