Yuen, San Wing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-61). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Literature review and hypothesis development --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Going private --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Tunneling and the expropriation of minority shareholders --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- Our hypotheses --- p.12 / Chapter 3 --- Samples --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1 --- Sample construction --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2 --- Sample description --- p.16 / Chapter 3.3 --- Corporate governance and financial variables --- p.18 / Chapter 3.4 --- Related party transactions --- p.21 / Chapter 4 --- Empirical analysis --- p.23 / Chapter 4.1 --- Event study results --- p.23 / Chapter 4.2 --- Negative premium --- p.34 / Chapter 4.3 --- Insider trading --- p.37 / Chapter 4.4 --- The decision to go private --- p.39 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Sample matching --- p.39 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Comparison between going private companies and public companies --- p.41 / Chapter 4.5 --- Logit regression analysis on going private decision --- p.43 / Chapter 4.6 --- The value effect of the bidding firms --- p.46 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.49 / Chapter A --- Privatized companies included in the sample with announcement dates --- p.51 / Chapter B --- Methodology of event study --- p.53 / Chapter C --- Bidder companies --- p.55 / Chapter D --- A list of definition of variables --- p.56 / Reference --- p.58

Lau, Wai Chun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / 摘要 --- p.iii / Acknowledgments --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Background --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Overview of Land Policies in Hong Kong --- p.4 / Land Policies and Private Housing Market --- p.4 / Current Application List System --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2. --- Hypotheses on the Interaction of Housing Prices and Land Sales --- p.6 / Demand-Supply Analysis --- p.6 / Revaluation Hypothesis --- p.8 / Chapter 3. --- Literature Review --- p.11 / Chapter 3.1. --- Relevant Literature about Interaction of Land and Housing Prices --- p.11 / Peng and Wheaton (1994) --- p.11 / Tse(1998) --- p.13 / Ho and Ganesam (1998) --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2. --- Hedonic Approach in the Studies of Hong Kong Real Estate Market --- p.16 / Chapter 4. --- Data Sources and Descriptions --- p.18 / Chapter 4.1 --- Land Sale Data --- p.18 / Chapter 4.2. --- Housing Transaction Data --- p.21 / Chapter 5. --- Methodology --- p.26 / Chapter 5.1 --- Model Specification --- p.26 / Chapter 5.2. --- Hypothesis Testing --- p.27 / Chapter 5.3. --- Functional Form and Estimation Method --- p.30 / Chapter 6. --- Empirical Results --- p.31 / Chapter 6.1. --- Hedonic Mode! Results --- p.31 / Chapter 6.2. --- Discussion on Pre-sale and Post-sale Housing Prices --- p.33 / Chapter 6.3. --- Robustness Checking --- p.36 / Variations in Specification --- p.36 / Time Variable Control --- p.38 / Estimation with Restricted samples --- p.40 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusions --- p.42 / Table 1 Selected Land Auction Records (1994 - 2005) --- p.45 / Table 2 List of Estates Covered in the Study --- p.49 / Table 3a Sampling Period and Number of Observations in Each Case Study --- p.54 / Table 3b Descriptive Statistics of Independent Variables in the Estimation of Model 1 --- p.56 / Table 4 Definition of Independent Variables in Model 1 --- p.60 / Table 5 OLS Estimates of Model 1 with Full Samples --- p.61 / Table 6 Goodness-of-Fit of Model 1 --- p.65 / Table 7 Coefficients of Dummy Variables in Model 1 --- p.66 / Table 8 Estimated Price Change from Model 1 --- p.70 / Table 9a Price Differences and Auction Results (All Cases) --- p.72 / Table 9b Price Differences and Auction Results (Cases with price differences at 10% significance level) --- p.72 / Table 10 Estimated Price Differences by Varying Model Specification and Sample Selection --- p.73 / Figure 1 Private Housing Prices and New Construction Units (1992 ~ 2005) --- p.76 / Figure 2 Mass CCI (1994 ~2006) --- p.77 / References --- p.78

University of Macau / Faculty of Science and Technology / Department of Mathematics

Purpose of the research: The purpose is to forecast the future trend of housing prices in Stockholm County 2011-2014 based on estimated slope coefficients of selected explanatory variables 1993-2010. Thereafter, the obtained forecast will be discussed with respect to other non-quantifiable concepts within behavioral economics. Method: Multiple regression technique with a deductive and explorative approach. Empirical data: Quantitative. Conclusion: The future trend of housing prices in Stockholm County has been forecasted to be positively sloped throughout all the years 2011-2014, but in 2011, the forecast reveals that the increase of house prices will taper off. Nevertheless, behavioral economics reveals some insights about the trend on the housing market and that the house prices might include a portion of abnormal returns. / Syfte: Syftet är att förutse den framtida utvecklingen av bostadspriserna i Stockholms län 2011-2014 baserade på beräknade lutningskoefficienter av valda förklaringsvariabler 1993-2010. Därefter kommer den erhållna prognosen att diskuteras i förhållande till andra icke-kvantifierbara begrepp inom beteendeekonomi. Metod: Multipel regressionsteknik med en deduktiv och explorativ strategi. Empirisk data: Kvantitativ. Slutsats: Den framtida utvecklingen av bostadspriserna i Stockholms län har beräknats ha en positiv lutning inom samtliga år 2011-2014, men under 2011 visar också prognosen att ökningen av huspriserna kommer att avta successivt. Icke desto mindre avslöjar beteendeekonomi vissa insikter om utvecklingen på bostadsmarknaden och att huspriserna kan innehålla en andel abnorm avkastning.

This paper presents a model of the probability of price response to the previous periods inventory absolute and relative level for U.S. paper and paperboard industry. The initial part of the paper contains a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon. The proposed framework indicates that the inventory level plays an important leading role in the price adjustment. The model is then estimated with monthly data extending from 1980 to 1999. The LPM and Probit models are used to estimate the effect of absolute and relative inventory level on the probability of price variations. The estimated results are in agreement with the oligopolistic market condition of U.S. paper and paperboard industry, showing the price upward adjustment is sticker and rigid than the price downward adjustment while the output level is indifferent to the previous months inventory fluctuation.

This dissertation is an empirical study of demand and supply in differentiated products markets using supermarket scanner data on two particular product categories - canned tuna and hot-breakfast cereals. First, I study the impact of retailers' price promotions on consumer demand and retailer profits in the canned-tuna product category. Since canned tuna is storable, I examine whether consumers stock up during sales. The results suggest that only a limited amount of stockpiling exists in this product category. Since inventory is not very important, consumer demand is thus modeled by a static demand model with a random-coefficients-nested-logit specification, which is estimated by the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. The unit-sales decomposition results show that on average 36% of the demand response to price promotions comes from brand-switching, so market expansion effects due to consumers switching from the outside good and to higher quantities usually dominate the brand-switching effect. Using the demand estimates, I compute optimal retail prices assuming that stores are local monopolists and choose prices to maximize static category-level profits. I find that regular prices at "high-low" stores are typically at or slightly below the optimal prices, but that regular prices at "every-day-low-price" stores are substantially below the optimal prices. These results suggest that retail price levels and price promotions are more likely related to local market conditions such as retail competition. In addition, I study the effects of store-brand (SB) entry on the demand elasticities of incumbent national brands (NB), consumers' substitution patterns for national and store brands, and the implications for consumer welfare in the hot-breakfast-cereals product category. A random-coefficients model of consumer demand is estimated by the generalized-method-of-moments approach. The empirical findings are: (1) After the entry of SB's, demand becomes more elastic for non-imitated NB's, and either more elastic or shows no change for imitated NB's; (2) in general, substitution patterns for NB's and SB's are asymmetric, i.e., when the prices of their favorite products increase, most NB buyers tend to substitute to other NB products, but SB buyers will substitute to the corresponding imitated NB's; (3) the increase in consumer surplus due to SB entry is trivial for an individual consumer, but the aggregate benefit could be quite substantial.

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

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This thesis consists of four essays in economics related to the pharmaceutical market. The first essay, Pharmaceutical Pricing in a Regulated Market, compares the pricing of new pharmaceuticals in the Swedish market where prices are regulated, with the results of Lu and Comanor who studied the pricing of new pharmaceuticals in the US market. The results indicate that price regulation discourages the use of penetration strategies and decreases price competition between brand name drugs. The second essay, Innovativeness and Market Shares in the Pharmaceutical Industry, analyzes the pharmaceutical market in a model of horizontal and vertical product differentiation. The implications from the model are tested on data from the Swedish pharmaceutical market. Vertically differentiated drugs are found to gain larger market shares, command higher prices, and be less sensitive to substitutes than drugs that are only horizontally differentiated. The third essay, Generic entry before and after reference prices, examines the effect of the reference pricing system on generic entry in markets where brand name pharmaceuticals lose patent protection. The main result is that savings due to increased competition in markets affected by the reference pricing system may have been outbalanced by higher prices due to less competition in markets where the reference pricing system led to deterred entry. The fourth essay, Innovative Drugs and the Increase in Pharmaceutical Expenditures, seeks to establish the most important factors behind the growth in pharmaceutical expenditures. One important conjecture is that the change in the drug price index has little impact on the rate at which pharmaceutical expenditures grow. Instead, the introduction of new innovative drugs seems to be the most important driving force of the growth in pharmaceutical expenditures. / Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Handelshögsk., 2001