Is Concentrated Management Ownership Value Increasing or Decreasing? Evidence in Hong Kong, China During the Asian Financial Crisis

Author(s):  
Sidney Leung ◽  
Bertrand Horwitz
Asian Survey ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W. K. Chiu ◽  
Alvin Y. So ◽  
May Yeuk-mui Tam

Abstract Through analyzing primary and secondary data, this paper argues that flexible employment practices in Hong Kong are largely employer-driven. This feature is explicable by the low level of government intervention in industrial relations, the development of the labor movement, and the Asian financial crisis that accentuated employers' prerogatives in employment relations.


Author(s):  
J H Cho ◽  
Ali M. Parhizgari

We consider the definition and measurement of contagion by analysing the 1997 East Asian financial crisis in the equity markets of eight countries using dynamic conditional correlation (DCC). Taking Thailand and Hong Kong as alternative sources of contagion, a total of fourteen source-target pairs is analyzed. We define contagion as the statistical break in the computed DCCs as measured by the shifts in their means and medians. In the DCC process, the parameters of each pair of source-target country contagion are allowed to vary and be dictated by the data. Contagion is tested using DCC means and medians difference tests. Our findings indicate the presence of contagion in the equity markets across all the fourteen pairs of source-target countries that are considered.  


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