by Wong Yim Chun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-80). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Charts --- p.vii / List of Appendices --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- "Inflation, Housing Price, and Economic Growth" --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.3 / Chapter 2.2 --- Basic Model --- p.4 / Chapter 2.3 --- Results --- p.6 / Chapter 2.4 --- Price Index --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5 --- Conclusion --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Natural Vacancy Ratein Hong Kong Housing Market --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- Price-Adjustment Mechanism and Natural Vacancy Rate --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3 --- Model Estimation --- p.25 / Chapter 3.4 --- Conclusion --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Dynamics of Property Market in Hong Kong --- p.29 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2 --- Findings --- p.30 / Chapter 4.3 --- Conclusion --- p.34 / Appendices --- p.54 / Bibliography --- p.78

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

by Tsui Cho Man. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65). / APPROVAL --- p.ii / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Objective --- p.1 / Methodology --- p.2 / Chapter 2. --- BACKGROUND OF THE TWO LEGAL SYSTEMS AND SOURCES OF LAW --- p.3 / Development of the PRC Legal System --- p.3 / Sources of Law in PRC --- p.5 / The Hong Kong Legal System --- p.6 / Sources of Law in Hong Kong --- p.7 / Chapter 3 . --- CONTRACT LAW --- p.9 / Introduction to English Contract Law --- p.9 / Contract Law in PRC --- p.10 / Sources of Contract Law in PRC --- p.11 / Foreign Economic Contracts --- p.12 / The basic principles of foreign economic contracts --- p.14 / The basic elements of foreign economic contracts --- p.15 / Differences between domestic and foreign economic contract law --- p.16 / Comparison of English and PRC Contract Law --- p.18 / Offer and Acceptance --- p.18 / Invitation to treat --- p.18 / Revocation of offer --- p.19 / Acceptance by post --- p.19 / Capacity --- p.20 / Terms of Contract --- p.22 / Formalities and the parol evidence rule --- p.23 / Consideration --- p.24 / Sufficiency of consideration --- p.25 / Adequacy of consideration --- p.25 / Existing public duty --- p.26 / Existing contractual duty --- p.26 / Existing contractual duty owed to third party --- p.26 / Duress and Undue Influence --- p.27 / Illegal and Void Contracts --- p.29 / Discharge of Contract --- p.31 / Discharge of foreign economic contracts --- p.31 / Discharge of domestic economic contracts --- p.32 / Frustration and force majeure --- p.33 / Discharge by agreement --- p.35 / Remedies --- p.36 / Remedies of foreign economic contract --- p.36 / Remedies of domestic economic contract --- p.37 / Liquidated damages and penalty --- p.39 / Damages --- p.39 / Mitigation of loss --- p.41 / Contributory negligence --- p.41 / Chapter 4. --- PROPERTY LAW --- p.42 / Classification of Properties --- p.43 / Law of Property Act 1925 --- p.45 / Hong Kong Property Law --- p.46 / Ownership and Possession of Property --- p.47 / Acquisition of Ownership --- p.49 / Ownership of Land --- p.51 / Ownership of Building --- p.54 / Protection of Property Interest --- p.54 / Transfer of Ownership --- p.56 / Co´ؤownership --- p.58 / Chapter 5. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.61 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.64

Law Wai-ling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.I / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Appendices --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- How and Why Do Company Investors Take Part in Property Market --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Methodology --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Empirical Findings --- p.19 / Chapter 5.1 --- Hong Kong Property Market in 1991 - 1998 --- p.19 / Chapter 5.2 --- Comparison between Company and Individual Investors --- p.24 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Number of Transactions --- p.25 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Duration --- p.27 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Rates of Return --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Historical Remark --- p.37 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.41 / Tables --- p.44 / Figures --- p.46 / Appendices --- p.59 / Bibliography --- p.94

published_or_final_version / Asian Studies / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / abstract / Architecture / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Cheung Hoi-Pang, Hung Leung-Bun. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-37). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II --- COBWEB THEOREM --- p.4 / The Cobweb Theory --- p.4 / Divergent Fluctuation --- p.5 / Continuos Fluctuation --- p.6 / Convergent Fluctuation --- p.6 / Mathematical Model --- p.7 / Hong Kong's Private Residential Property Market --- p.8 / Data and Evaluation --- p.11 / Chapter III --- PREY-PREDATOR MODEL --- p.14 / The Prey Predator Model --- p.15 / Observation --- p.17 / The Data --- p.19 / The Model --- p.20 / Chapter IV --- CONCLUSION --- p.22 / APPENDIX --- p.24 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.36

by Pui-yee Connie Tang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-252). / Abstract also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / ABBREVIATIONS --- p.viii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.ix / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- HOUSING MARKET AND HOME OWNERSHIP --- p.6 / The Hong Kong residential housing market --- p.7 / Growth of home ownership --- p.23 / Conclusion --- p.38 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- STUDYING HOUSING PROVISION --- p.40 / Neo-classical economics --- p.41 / Classical Marxism --- p.43 / Urban political economy --- p.46 / Beyond Marxian political economy --- p.56 / Structures of housing provision --- p.58 / Conclusion --- p.63 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- HONG KONG PROPERTY DEVELOPERS --- p.64 / Roles of property developers --- p.64 / Types of property developers --- p.66 / The research agenda --- p.68 / Historical development of Hong Kong property developers --- p.70 / British-controlled property companies --- p.79 / Chinese-controlled property companies --- p.81 / Overseas-controlled property companies --- p.91 / Public-sector developers --- p.93 / Other public companies --- p.96 / Conclusion --- p.100 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- THE OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING PROVISION IN HONG KONG --- p.102 / Forms of housing production --- p.103 / The housing development process in Hong Kong --- p.107 / Land search and assembly --- p.108 / "Planning permission, development design and finance" --- p.128 / Housing construction --- p.137 / Marketing and selling --- p.142 / Conclusion --- p.148 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- PROPERTY DEVELOPERS AND THEIR POWER --- p.149 / Developers' market power --- p.149 / Developers' political power --- p.175 / Conclusion --- p.186 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- HONG KONG OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING AND THEIR FUTURE --- p.188 / Expand owner-occupied housing sector --- p.189 / Strategies to promote home ownership --- p.198 / The future structure of owner-occupied housing provision in Hong Kong --- p.204 / Future prospects of home ownership --- p.209 / Conclusion --- p.214 / Chapter CHAPTER 8 --- CONCLUSION --- p.216 / POSTSCRIPT --- p.220 / APPENDICES / Chapter I. --- List of individuals consulted in selected individuals interviews --- p.221 / Chapter II. --- Corporate members in the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong as in1997. --- p.223 / Chapter III. --- "Details of HOS and PSPS projects, 1978-97" --- p.229 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.235

Lau, Chi Keung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-188). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Chosen Samples Results --- p.v / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Real Estate Literature --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Financial Literature --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Methodology --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1 --- Augmented Dickey Fuller Test --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2 --- Band-Pass Filter --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Data Description --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Empirical Results --- p.23 / Chapter 5.1 --- Contemporaneous Correlation --- p.24 / Chapter 5.2 --- Results after Band-Pass Filtering --- p.26 / Chapter 5.3 --- Lead-lag Relationship Analysis --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion --- p.35 / Appendix 1. Variable Definition --- p.38 / Appendix 2. Limitation --- p.41 / Appendix 3. Results of Chosen Samples --- p.45 / Appendix 4. Tables --- p.54 / Appendix 5. Figures --- p.109 / Bibliography --- p.187

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration