To cope with the urban congestion problem resulted from rapid urbanization some cities are successfully using Electronic Road Pricing policy as a demand management measure. In 1982, Hong Kong Governmenttook initiative to experiment electronic road pricing in Hong Kong. Though, the project outcome reveals that Electronic Road Pricing could bring tremendous economic, social and environmental bene...

pistachio is a major agricultural export commodity in iran. nowadays, it ranks first among iran’s agricultural exports. this paper focuses on the comparative advantage in pistachio production and the export market in iran. a policy analysis matrix (pam) framework and revealed comparative advantage (rca) index are applied to 2000-2004 data to study iranian government policy regarding pistachio p...

"This theoretical discussion of the migration transition in Asia develops a framework to understand the turning point from labor exporter to labor importer experienced by the Asian NIES [newly industrialized economies] (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan). The author concludes that the NIEs' demand for labor curve shifted rapidly, primarily due to export-led growth of a labor-intensive cha...

Since Great Britain’s return of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to the Chinese government in 1997, attention has been increasingly directed at the degree of market efficiency in the post-handover Hong Kong stock market. This study uses a sample of 542 corporate news announcements from January 1994 through December 2000 of Hong Kong and China-affiliated firms that are listed on the Stock Exchange of Hon...

One key function of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is to promote the stability and integrity of the financial system in Hong Kong. There are about 200 authorized institutions (AIs) in Hong Kong, many of which are deposit taking banks. The total assets of AIs as of June 2010 are about HKD 11 trillion, 6 times as large as the latest annual GDP of Hong Kong and about 60% of the total mark...

We have developed a statistical method for the valuation of residential properties using a hierarchical Bayesian approach, which takes into consideration the unique structure of the Hong Kong property market. Our model is calibrated on a dataset that covers all residential real estate transactions in ten major Hong Kong residential complexes from February 2008 to February 2009. Although parsimo...

Lee CKF Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The university of Hong Kong, China Email: [email protected]

Lee CKF Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The university of Hong Kong, China Email: [email protected]

Among agricultural products in Iran, pistachio is one of the major export products that can produce foreign currency. The present study evaluated factors affecting pistachio export earnings instability and its effect on agricultural export during the studied period. For this purpose, export earnings instability index was calculated using "average absolute difference between export earnings and ...