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Hong Kong is competitive not only as an attractive place to do business but, in its distinct way, also an attractive place to live. Larry E. Ribstein exposes the wider motivations behind current international pressure to alter Hong Kong’s tax law From sanctions to blacklists, there is international pressure toContinue reading>

Bill Stacey argues that as the market has changed the original policy rational of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation has disappeared The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation (HKMC) has reached its use-by date. It has sought to survive through a strategy of diversification that takes on higher risk with public funds.Continue reading>

Hans Mahncke uncovers the roots of Hong Kong’s competition problems and explains why they will not be remedied by a cross-sector competition law An interesting feature of competition law is that it is usually enforced administratively through a special agency, rather than judicially through the courts. A year and aContinue reading>

Hans Mahncke, LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M., is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include international economic and WTO law, and common law history and method. He also teaches and publishes in these areas. Hans currently serves as a contributing editorContinue reading>

Moving Hong Kong Forward While there is a sense that the financial crisis is loosening its grip, economists predict the next crisis is around the corner, glaring red in government budgets. In recessions, dirigiste practices are fashionable. In this environment, governments either resist progress with policies that increase debt andContinue reading>

Lion rock writers unveil the problems with Minimum Wage and illustrate the economic reality – fewer job opportunities to exist for ’s most vulnerable. ong Kong is now debating whether minimum wage should be implemented in our city. though media-worthy, as Hong Kong is one of the last developed economiesContinue reading>

Developing rural business by urbanization Our Research Director, Andrew Suen, on Cable TV show. Please following this link to Cable TV webpage (Cantonese only).

Does the Hong Kong government have a Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae in the making? The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited was formed in 1997 to loan money to people who needed more than 70% of a property’s price that banks could lend them. The HKMC also bought mortgages fromContinue reading>