published_or_final_version / abstract / Architecture / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Wong Yiu Fai Peter. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 91). / ABSTRACT / TABLE OF CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / LIST OF TABLES / CHAPTER Page(s) / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1-3 / Chapter II. --- THE THEORY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS --- p.4-8 / Chapter 1. --- Value of Good --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- Nature of Property Rights --- p.4-5 / Chapter 3. --- Externalities and Property Rights --- p.5-6 / Chapter 4. --- The Exchange of Property Rights and Internalization --- p.6-7 / Chapter 5. --- The Development of Property Rights --- p.7-8 / Chapter III. --- the changing pattern of real property rights in china --- p.9-24 / Chapter 1. --- Historical Background --- p.9-14 / Chapter 2. --- The Propelling Forces For the Changein the System of Real Property Rights --- p.14-20 / Chapter i. --- Political Forces --- p.14-15 / Chapter ii. --- Economic Forces --- p.15-19 / Chapter iii. --- To Attract Foreign Investment --- p.19-20 / Chapter 3. --- Theoretical Justification and Concepts --- p.20-24 / Chapter i. --- Land Ownership --- p.20-21 / Chapter ii. --- Property Ownership --- p.21 / Chapter iii. --- Land Use Rights --- p.21-22 / Chapter iv. --- Theoretical Justification --- p.22-24 / Chapter IV --- LEGAL FRAMEWORK --- p.25-42 / Chapter 1. --- Enactment of new legislation to accommodate the change in real property rights --- p.25-27 / Chapter 2. --- Grant of Land Use Rights --- p.27-32 / Chapter 3. --- Transfer of Land Use Rights --- p.32-34 / Chapter 4. --- Lease of Land Use Rights --- p.34-35 / Chapter 5. --- Mortgage of Land Use Rights --- p.35-37 / Chapter 6. --- Termination of Land Use Rights --- p.37-38 / Chapter 7. --- Registration and Certificate of Rights --- p.38-40 / Chapter 8. --- Land Use Rights in Allotted Land --- p.40-42 / Chapter V --- DISPUTE RESOLUTION - LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION --- p.43-45 / Chapter 1. --- Litigation --- p.43-44 / Chapter i. --- Courts --- p.43 / Chapter ii. --- Judges --- p.43-44 / Chapter iii. --- Time and Costs --- p.44 / Chapter 2. --- Arbitration --- p.44-46 / Chapter i. --- International Aspect --- p.44-45 / Chapter ii. --- Time and Costs --- p.45-46 / Chapter 3. --- Dispute resolution and theory of property rights --- p.46 / Chapter VI --- PROBLEMS OF THE NEW LEGAL SYSTEM --- p.47-54 / Chapter 1. --- Complexity --- p.47-51 / Chapter i. --- "Various sources of laws, regulations and practices" --- p.47-48 / Chapter ii. --- Localism --- p.49 / Chapter iii. --- Great discretion of officials --- p.49-50 / Chapter iv. --- The myth of lawless China --- p.50-51 / Chapter 2. --- Immaturity --- p.51-53 / Chapter i. --- Immature Concepts --- p.51-52 / Chapter ii. --- Immature Systems --- p.52-53 / Chapter 3. --- Loopholes in the legal system --- p.53-54 / Chapter VII. --- conclusion --- p.55 / APPENDICES / Chapter 1. --- Table / Chapter 2. --- Sample Land Certificate / Chapter 3. --- An Extract of the relevant laws and regulations / Chapter 4. --- A Scale of Court Costs and Charge / Chapter 5. --- china International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Arbitration Rules / footnotes / bibliography

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 Leung Sui Wai, Tam Kai Yu Margaret. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 73). / ABSTRACT --- p.II / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.IV / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.VII / LIST OF TABLES --- p.VIII / PREFACE --- p.XI / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Objectives --- p.2 / Chapter 2 --- HO USING SUPPLIES IN HONG KONG --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Public Housing --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Public rental flats --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Owning flats under public housing schemes --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Home Ownership Scheme --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Middle Income Housing --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- New Home Starter Loan Scheme --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.6 --- Sandwich Class Housing Scheme --- p.12 / Chapter 2. 2 --- Private property --- p.14 / Chapter 3. --- PROPERTY IN MAINLAND CHINA --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Pricing of property in Mainland China --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2 --- Buyers of properties in Mainland China --- p.18 / Chapter 3.3 --- Threat of incomplete commodity housing (lanmeilou) --- p.18 / Chapter 3.4 --- Hong Kong property agents --- p.19 / Chapter 4. --- ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE WITHIN RESEARCH PERIOD --- p.20 / Chapter 4.1 --- Residential Property Market --- p.20 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Real Estate Chill --- p.20 / Chapter 4.3 --- The SAR Property Policy --- p.21 / Chapter 4.4 --- "Long-teRm Housing Strategy, 1997" --- p.22 / Chapter 4.5 --- Land release --- p.24 / Chapter 4.6 --- loan for First-time Home Buyers and Sandwich-Class Buyers --- p.25 / Chapter 4.7 --- Privatizing Public Housing --- p.26 / Chapter 5. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.29 / Chapter 5.1 --- Surveys --- p.29 / Chapter 5.2 --- Questionnaire Design --- p.29 / Chapter 5.3 --- Selection of Respondents --- p.33 / Chapter 5.4 --- Data Analysis --- p.33 / Chapter 6. --- SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS --- p.35 / Chapter 6.1 --- Results and Analysis - Section 1 --- p.35 / Chapter 6.2 --- Results and Analysis - Section 2 --- p.37 / Chapter 6.3 --- Results and Analysis - Potential Buyers --- p.42 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Age --- p.42 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Marital Status --- p.43 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Relatives in China --- p.44 / Chapter 6.3.4 --- Currently Living With --- p.45 / Chapter 6.3.5 --- Currently Living In --- p.46 / Chapter 6.3.6 --- Education Level --- p.48 / Chapter 6.3.7 --- Number of Property Currently Owned --- p.50 / Chapter 6.3.8 --- Income --- p.51 / Chapter 6.3.9 --- Summary of Characteristics of Potential Buyers --- p.52 / Chapter 7. --- RECOMMENDATION --- p.54 / Chapter 7.1 --- Product --- p.54 / Chapter 7.2 --- Price --- p.56 / Chapter 7.3 --- Promotion --- p.57 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- Advertising --- p.57 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Publicity --- p.58 / Chapter 7.3.3 --- Sales promotion --- p.58 / Chapter 7.3.4 --- Personal selling --- p.58 / Chapter 7.4 --- Distribution --- p.59 / Chapter 8. --- CONCLUSION --- p.60 / Chapter 8.1 --- Feasibility of residing in China but working in Hong Kong --- p.60 / Chapter 8.2 --- Demographic profiles of potential buyers --- p.62 / Chapter 8.3 --- Implications of the current situation --- p.62 / Chapter 9. --- LIMITATIONS --- p.64 / APPENDIX --- p.66 / Appendix A The Importance of Each Consideration when Buying Property in Mainland China --- p.66 / Appendix B Copy and results of the survey used in this project --- p.70 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.73

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

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

伍詠詩. / "2003年6月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2003. / 參考文獻 (p. 158-161). / 附中英文摘要. / "2003 nian 6 yue". / Wu Yongshi. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2003. / Can kao wen xian (p. 158-161). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一部份： --- 楔子 / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻回顧 --- p.p.8 / Chapter 第二部份： --- 多元現代性的層級差距 / Chapter 第三章 --- 碧桂園廣告分析 --- p.p.26 / Chapter 第四章 --- 碧桂園空間分析 --- p.p.50 / Chapter 第三部份： --- 多元現代性層級差距的文化力量 / Chapter 第五章 --- 香港人跨境置業的因素和意義 --- p.p.74 / Chapter 第六章 --- 香港人跨境置業的博奕和策略 --- p.p.112 / Chapter 第四部份： --- 總結 / Chapter 第七章 --- 總結及討論 --- p.p.133 / 附錄 / 附錄一碧桂園廣告文本目錄 --- p.p.141 / 附錄二碧桂園參考圖片 --- p.p.142 / 附錄三受訪者資料 --- p.p.156 / 參考書目 --- p.p.158

by Liu Shiang Ling. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- CHINA'S RENMINBI SYSTEM --- p.3 / Overview and Historical Development --- p.3 / 1953-1972 --- p.3 / 1973-1978 --- p.4 / 1979-1993 --- p.4 / 1994-1996 --- p.6 / The Exchange Rate Determination --- p.7 / Demand & Supply --- p.7 / The Balance of Payments --- p.8 / Inflation --- p.10 / Interest Rate --- p.10 / The Condition of Economic Development --- p.11 / Expectation --- p.11 / The Fiscal Policy --- p.12 / Forecasting Exchange Rate --- p.12 / Fundamental Analysis --- p.14 / Chapter III. --- CHINA'S PROPERTY MARKET --- p.15 / The History of China's Property Market --- p.15 / Pre-1949 --- p.15 / 1949-1979 --- p.15 / 1979-1991 --- p.16 / 1992-1996 --- p.18 / China's Real Estate Market Overview --- p.20 / Shanghai's Property Market --- p.21 / Risk Analysis --- p.22 / Return --- p.22 / Risks --- p.23 / Chapter IV. --- THEORETICAL ANALYSIS --- p.25 / Currency Conversion and Exchange Rate Risks --- p.25 / Hypothesis --- p.26 / The Short Run --- p.26 / The Long Run --- p.27 / Chapter V. --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDINGS --- p.29 / Targets of Study --- p.29 / Questionnaire --- p.29 / Chapter VI. --- ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS --- p.30 / Primary Source Data --- p.30 / Secondary Source Data --- p.32 / Analysis --- p.34 / The Short Run --- p.34 / The Long Run --- p.35 / Political Conditions --- p.35 / Economic Conditions --- p.36 / Social Conditions --- p.37 / Market Conditions --- p.37 / Land Investment --- p.38 / Conclusion --- p.39 / Chapter VII. --- RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADVICE TO DEVELOPERS --- p.40 / The Depreciation of Renminbi --- p.40 / The Appreciation of Renminbi --- p.41 / The Chinese Government Policy --- p.42 / Long-Term Consideration --- p.43 / APPENDIX --- p.45