This study employs three ordinary least squares regression equations to analyze retail grocery store prices. The grocery stores studied were from the Tucson metropolitan area. The price data collected consisted of a typical market basket purchased in this market. Different price categories were analyzed in order to determine the relevance of interstore comparisons between two different brand categories, national brand and cheapest brand categories. Grocery prices for the two brands were tested to determine if the organization of retail grocery stores (chain and independents), location of the store, store neighborhood average income, and size (in square feet) of the grocery store affected price.

by Chan Hoi-ying. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-45). / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.viii / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Scope of Study --- p.2 / Approach of Study --- p.3 / Chapter II. --- DEVELOPMENT OF CORPORATE BONDS IN HONG KONG --- p.4 / The History of Hong Kong Bond Market --- p.4 / The Reasons for Low Bond Activity Before 1991 --- p.6 / The Growth of the Bond Market after 1991 --- p.6 / The Exchange Fund Bills and Notes --- p.7 / The Liquidity Adjustment Facility --- p.8 / The Central Moneymarket Unit --- p.9 / The Rise of Corporate Issuers and Investors --- p.10 / Chapter III. --- TYPES OF CORPORATE BONDS --- p.14 / Eurobonds --- p.14 / Euroconvertible Bonds --- p.16 / Yankee Bonds --- p.18 / Hong Kong Dollar Bonds --- p.21 / Chapter IV. --- DIFFERENT WAYS TO VALUE CORPORATE BONDS --- p.25 / Theoretical Pricing of Bonds Using Option Pricing Model --- p.25 / Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model --- p.26 / Using Black and Scholes Model for Pricing Corporate Bonds --- p.27 / Using Black and Scholes Model for Pricing Convertible Bonds --- p.29 / Pricing of Corporate Bonds in Practice --- p.32 / Credit Rating --- p.32 / Yield --- p.34 / Supply and Demand --- p.35 / Market Sentiments --- p.35 / Conclusion --- p.36 / Chapter V. --- WHEN TO ISSUE EACH TYPE OF BOND --- p.37 / Eurobonds --- p.37 / Euroconvertible Bond --- p.38 / Yankee Bonds --- p.39 / Hong Kong Dollar Bonds --- p.39 / Chapter VI. --- FUTURE OF CORPORATE BONDS --- p.41 / Further Development of the Hong Kong Dollar Bonds --- p.41 / Prospects for Corporate Bonds in Overseas Bond Market --- p.42 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.44

Wong Chun-sing, Wong Tsz-kin. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 / Chapter III. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.7 / Demand side variables --- p.8 / Demographic factors --- p.8 / Economic factors --- p.9 / Governmental factors --- p.10 / Supply side variables --- p.11 / Chapter IV. --- ROLE OF HONG KONG IN CHINA AFTER1997 --- p.13 / Chapter V. --- DEMAND SIDE FACTORS --- p.15 / Population --- p.15 / Population Growth --- p.15 / Change in Population Structure --- p.17 / Migration --- p.19 / Income and Affordability --- p.22 / Inflation --- p.25 / "Inflation, Interest rate and Pegged rate system" --- p.25 / Relationship between anticipated inflation and property price --- p.25 / Major causes of inflation in Hong Kong --- p.26 / Major causes of inflation in China --- p.27 / Future Trend of Inflation in Hong Kong --- p.31 / Interest Rate and Pegged Rate System --- p.31 / Interest Rate --- p.31 / Pegged Rate System --- p.31 / Chapter VI. --- SUPPLY SIDE FACTORS --- p.34 / Housing Supply --- p.34 / Chapter VII. --- QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS --- p.39 / Chapter VIII. --- POSSIBLE SCENARIOS --- p.50 / Purpose --- p.50 / Optimistic View --- p.50 / Pessimistic View --- p.51 / Semi-Optimistic View --- p.52 / Analysis with factors --- p.54 / Chapter IX. --- CONCLUSION --- p.55 / APPENDIX I --- p.56 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.65

by Au Yuk Mui, Kitty, Lo King Yuen, Simon. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Hong Kong Stock-Market --- p.2 / History of Hong Kong Stock Market --- p.2 / Stock Indexes in Hong Kong --- p.4 / Process in Granting Dividend to Investors --- p.6 / Transaction Cost in Stock Trading --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER II --- HYPOTHESES --- p.10 / Chapter CHAPTER III --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.14 / Review of Hong Kong Taxation System --- p.14 / Literature Review --- p.16 / Survey on the Shareownership --- p.22 / Chapter CHAPTER IV --- METHODOLOGY --- p.26 / Data Collection --- p.26 / Stock price & Dividend --- p.26 / Market Index --- p.28 / Regression equation --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER V --- STATISTICAL FINDING --- p.36 / Practice of dividend payment --- p.36 / Stock price drop vs Dividend --- p.40 / Adjusted Ex-date Return vs Dividend Yield --- p.46 / Multiple regression analysis on the CAPM equation for ex-date return --- p.60 / Chapter CHAPTER VI --- LIMITATION --- p.73 / Abnormal crisis --- p.73 / Market Index --- p.74 / Portfolio approach --- p.75 / Transaction Cost --- p.76 / Chapter CHAPTER VII --- CONCLUSION --- p.77 / Chapter APPENDIX A --- "REGRESSION RESULT FOR RATE OF STOCK PRICE DROP AND DIVIDEND YIELD, IN ACCORDING TO THE DIVIDEND TYPE, WEEKDAY AND TIME LAPSE BETWEEN CUM-DATE AND EX-DATE" --- p.79 / Chapter APPENDIX B --- "REGRESSION RESULT FOR ADJUSTED EX-DATE STOCK RETURN AND DIVIDEND YIELD, IN ACCORDING TO THE DIVIDEND TYPE, WEEKDAY AND TIME LAPSE BETWEEN CUM-DATE AND EX-DATE" --- p.80 / Chapter APPENDIX C --- "RESULT OF MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS FOR ADJUSTED EX-DATE STOCK RETURN AND DIVIDEND YIELD, ACCORDING TO THE DIVIDEND TYPE, WEEKDAY AND TIME LAPSE BETWEEN CUM-DATE AND EX-DATE" --- p.82 / Chapter APPENDIX D --- THE IMPLIED RISK FREE RATE --- p.84 / REFERENCES --- p.85

Ding Jiajia. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i-ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.ix / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Review of Literature on Rental Adjustment Models --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Review of Literatures on Hedonic Models --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Review of Literature on Real Estate Dynamics --- p.14 / Chapter 2.4 --- Review of Literature on Markov Chain Models --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Data Description and Econometric Method --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data Source and Classification --- p.23 / Chapter 3.2 --- Measurement of Variables --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3 --- Grouping Method and Econometric Methodology --- p.28 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Empirical Results --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1 --- Correlation of Volume and ROR --- p.32 / Chapter 4.2 --- Granger Causality Tests --- p.33 / Chapter 4.3 --- Estimation of Markov Chain Model --- p.36 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.40 / Appendix I Comparison of Previous Literatures --- p.43 / Appendix II Definition of Districts and Map --- p.49 / Appendix III Tables --- p.54 / Appendix IV Figures --- p.96 / Appendix V Granger Causality Test --- p.99 / Appendix VI Markov Chain Model --- p.101 / Appendix VII Transition Matrix of Markov Chains of commercial property from 1993-2004 --- p.103 / Appendix VIII Transition Matrix of Markov Chains of Residential Estates from 1992-2004 --- p.107 / Bibliography --- p.112

by Ho Wai Wa. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-92). / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.ii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.iv / ABSTRACT --- p.v / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- NOISE TRADING --- p.8 / Chapter III. --- FEEDBACK TRADING FOR ASSET RETURNS --- p.19 / Chapter A. --- The Feedback Trading Model --- p.19 / Chapter B. --- Review of the Models for the Stock Return Distribution --- p.27 / Chapter C. --- A Testable Model --- p.34 / Chapter D. --- other Sources of Serial Correlation --- p.36 / Chapter E. --- Other Sources of ARCH Effect --- p.38 / Chapter IV. --- ESTIMATION OF THE FEEDBACK TRADING MODEL --- p.42 / Chapter A. --- Data Description --- p.42 / Chapter B. --- Estimation --- p.47 / Chapter 1. --- Base Model --- p.47 / Chapter 2. --- The Feeding Trading Model --- p.52 / Chapter C. --- Implications for Feedback Trading --- p.70 / Chapter V. --- MEASURING THE IMPACT OF NOISE TRADING --- p.73 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.81 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.87

Zhu Yuande. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-87). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Review of Theories and Literature --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Theoretical Explanations for IPO Underpricing: --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Empirical Studies Review on China's IPOs --- p.9 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Introduction of China's IPO Market --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2 --- How to Price and Distribute IPOs --- p.15 / Chapter 3.3 --- Valuing IPOs and Setting Base Price --- p.24 / Chapter 3.4 --- Conclusion of This Chapter --- p.26 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Empirical Results and Analysis of Chinese IPO Pricing --- p.27 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Data and Research Methodology --- p.27 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Regression Results and Discussion --- p.29 / Chapter 4.3 --- Conclusion of This Chapter --- p.34 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- Theoretical Explanations of Underpricing Based on Chinese IPO Behaviors --- p.35 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Optimal Underpricing in China's Stock Market --- p.35 / Chapter 5.2 --- Empirical Tests on Some Theories --- p.38 / Chapter 5.21 --- Signaling Model --- p.38 / Chapter 5.22 --- The Impact of Underwriters --- p.45 / Chapter 5.23 --- Winner's Curse Test --- p.46 / Chapter 5.24 --- Extensive Presale Theory --- p.48 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- Empirical Results and Analysis of Underpricing in China's Market --- p.54 / Chapter 6.1 --- Underpricing in A-Share Market --- p.54 / Chapter 6.11 --- Survey of Underpricing --- p.54 / Chapter 6.12 --- Empirical Results on A-Share IPO Underpricing --- p.56 / Chapter 6.13 --- Conclusion of This Part --- p.66 / Chapter 6.2 --- Underpricing in B-share Market --- p.66 / Chapter 6.21 --- Survey of Underpricing --- p.66 / Chapter 6.22 --- Empirical Results on the B-share Market --- p.70 / Chapter 6.23 --- Conclusion of This Part --- p.77 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- Further Development of Chinese Stock Market --- p.78 / Chapter 7.1 --- Defects in Chinese Stock Market --- p.78 / Chapter 7.2 --- Further Development for Reducing Underpricing --- p.79 / Chapter CHAPTER 8 --- Conclusion --- p.81 / REFERENCE --- p.83

Chan Yin-Sze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-41). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1. --- Background Introduction --- p.P. 1 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.P. 3 / Chapter 3. --- Methodology --- p.P. 8 / Chapter 4. --- Data Description --- p.P. 10 / Chapter 5. --- Empirical Results --- p.P. 20 / Chapter A. --- Simple Linear Regression Model / Chapter B. --- Robustness / Chapter C. --- "Regression by running Physical, Location & Macroeconomic Factor Separately" / Chapter 6. --- Comparison with the Previous Literatures --- p.P. 34 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusion --- p.P. 36 / Chapter 8. --- Reference --- p.P. 37 / Chapter 9. --- Tables & Figures --- p.P. 42 / Chapter 10. --- Appendix --- p.P. 65

漲跌停制度是一種意圖控制股市價格大幅波動的強制性政策。雖然漲跌停制度被很多國家都採用，但是關於該制度的效果的結論一直都是具有很大爭議性。除此之外，之前的一些研究還表明在不同國家的股票市場中，漲跌停制度的效果也是不一樣的。然而，作為一個獨特且年輕的股票市場，中國A股市場也擁有漲跌停制度，但是關於它的效果的研究卻很稀缺。其中，關於在特殊經濟狀況下，例如金融危機，漲跌停的效用基本上沒被研究過。這是一個很重要的研究課題，因為金融危機這種特殊經濟時期會引起股市的大幅波動，這正是漲跌停制度發揮作用也是我們研究其效果的最佳時機。因為以上原因，這篇論文的主題就是挖掘中國A股的漲跌停制度在金融危機時期的效果，我們希望檢驗是否金融危機引起的特殊市場氛圍會使漲跌停的效果與平常不同。我們將一種改進的關於漲跌停效果的經典方法應用於金融危機期間的股票交易數據上，來對三個假設（波動性溢出, 延遲價格發現和妨礙交易）進行檢驗。相比與之前的方法，我們進行了改進，主要是採用了以漲跌停價格收市和包含了連續漲跌停的數據。 / 此外，爲了更好滴瞭解漲跌停制度的效果，我們還對那些在金融危機期間容易漲跌停的股票研究其主要特點。在本論文中，我們除了引進每個股票的基本面指標，還引進了具有中國特色的因子，包括國有股份和行業等因子，通過廣義（GMM）的方法來進行分析。這些股票特徵希望能夠為於證監會將來制定漲跌停制度和投資者在金融危機期間于中國的投資提供一定信息。 / Price limit is a policy originally utilized to control extreme price movements in stock markets. As a widely adopted policy in numerous countries, price limit has led to several debates regarding its effects on stock markets. Moreover, previous studies have shown that price limit has different effects on different markets and time periods. However, the effects of the price limit system in the Chinese A-share market, a unique and young stock market, has yet to be fully investigated. Furthermore, few works have studied the price limit during special economic conditions, such as financial crises, which should be the best time for price limit to play its role. Additionally, these conditions are the most ideal times at which to test the effects of the price limit. Motivated by these conditions, this thesis explores the effects of price limits on the Chinese A-share stock markets during financial crises in order to examine whether the market atmosphere of investor sentiment caused by special economic conditions has varied impacts on the effects of price limits. By employing the recognized methods, this thesis aims to test the three hypotheses of volatility spillover, delayed price discovery, and trading interference using stock data during financial crisis. Compared with previous studies, this thesis empirically analyzes the effects of price limits with our improved methodology of utilizing closing-hitting observations. / To gain a better understanding of the price limit’s effect, this thesis also investigates the characteristics of stocks that hit the price limits more frequently under this special economic condition. In this study, the Generalized Method of Moments regression model is utilized by introducing financial indicators for each individual stock and some special factors in the Chinese A-share markets, such as state-owned share and industries. Identifying the characteristics of stocks that frequently hit the limit can provide some information to investors when financial crises occur in the Chinese A-share markets. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Wang, Dingyan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.3 / Acknowledgement --- p.6 / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.16 / Chapter 2.1 --- Background of Chinese Stock Markets --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2 --- Literature Review --- p.19 / Chapter 3 --- Effects of Chinese A-Share Price Limits --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Improvement of Methodology --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3 --- Empirical Analysis --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Test of the Volatility Spillover Hypothesis --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Test of the Delayed Price Discovery Hypothesis --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Test of the Trading Interference Hypothesis --- p.38 / Chapter 4 --- Characteristics of Stocks that Hit the Limit --- p.46 / Chapter 4.1 --- Characteristics of Stocks that hit the limit during the Financial Crisis --- p.46 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusions --- p.52 / Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusions --- p.52 / Bibliography --- p.54

All these results indicate that the hypothesis of weak-form market efficiency has limited applicability in the Hong Kong stock market and that recognised inefficiencies are strongly associated with the information of trend-chasing technical analysts. The results are also consistent with the findings of a theoretical model proposed in this dissertation. In particular, the model suggests that trend-chasing behaviour, together with uncertainty about intrinsic values, contributes to market inefficiency. / This dissertation studies the relationship between the use of trend-chasing technical analysis and inefficiency in the Hong Kong stock market. To answer how widespread use of technical analysis can influence stock prices, a simple equilibrium model is developed. It is shown that trend-chasing behaviour, together with uncertainty about intrinsic values, leads to market inefficiencies in the form of overshooting, positive autocorrelation of short-horizon returns, mean reversion and excess volatility. / To empirically test whether market inefficiency is associated with the information of trend-chasing technical analysts, this dissertation focuses on the Hong Kong stock market, in which technical analysis is widely used. The data covers daily closing values of the Hang Seng Index (HSI) in Hong Kong from 1969 to 1992. The results show that the buy and sell signals obtained from MA rules, which are commonly used indicators of technical analysis in the market, are strongly associated with abnormal price behaviour. For instance, when changes in these MA signals are observed, short-run abnormal price behaviour is noted. That is, stock prices tend to rise when the MA rules change to buy signals and tend to fall when they change to sell signals. Also, autocorrelation in daily returns appears to differ for periods following buy and sell signals. Daily returns tend to be more autocorrelated when the MA rules provide buy signals and less autocorrelated when they provide sell signals. Moreover, when most MA rules show buy signals, mean reversion is more pronounced in subsequent dates. Furthermore, fund managers in Hong Kong can benefit from using the buy and sell signals because they consistently provide information allowing for superior market timing. / by Wong Chak-sham Michael. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3579. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-145). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / School code: 1307.