Lu Lan. / "June 2004." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-53). / 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 Information and Learning Company, [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. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

by Chow Shun Yin. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-46). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLE --- p.iv / ABBREVIATION --- p.v / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- OVERVIEW OF HONG KONG STOCK OPTIONS --- p.4 / Chapter III. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.6 / Chapter IV. --- METHODOLOGY AND DATA EMPLOYED --- p.10 / Test A ´ؤ Trading Volume Approach --- p.10 / Test B ´ؤ Trading Volume-Price Volatility Approach --- p.13 / Sample Selection --- p.15 / Data Collection --- p.16 / Chapter V. --- EMPIRICAL RESULTS --- p.17 / Findings --- p.24 / Discussion --- p.27 / Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.30 / APPENDIX / BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Leung Kwok Chu, Wong Cheuk Fung. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Technical Analysis --- p.2 / The Characteristics and Efficiency of China's Equity Markets --- p.3 / Market Participants --- p.4 / Transaction Costs and Tradability of Shares --- p.5 / Availability of Information --- p.7 / Implication on Weak Form Market Efficiency --- p.8 / Relative Strength Index --- p.10 / Chapter II. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.12 / Chapter III. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.15 / Primary Research --- p.15 / Source of Data --- p.15 / Spreadsheet Calculation Procedure --- p.16 / Hypothesis Testing --- p.18 / The First Type of Tests --- p.18 / The Second Type of Tests --- p.19 / The Third Type of Tests --- p.20 / Chapter IV. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.21 / Abnormal Returns Obtained by Following RSI Trading Rules --- p.21 / A-shares --- p.21 / Buy signals --- p.21 / Interpretations of buy signals in A-share markets --- p.22 / Sell signals --- p.22 / Interpretations of sell signals in A-share markets --- p.23 / B-shares --- p.25 / Buy signals --- p.25 / Interpretations of buy signals in B-share markets --- p.25 / Sell signals --- p.26 / Interpretations of sell signals in B-share markets --- p.27 / Chapter V. --- ADDITIONAL RESEARCHES ON B-SHARE MARKETS --- p.30 / Findings on Additional Researches on B-share Markets --- p.30 / Interpretations of Findings on Additional Researches on B-share Markets --- p.31 / Chapter VI. --- ADDITIONAL RESEARCHES ON A-SHARE MARKETS --- p.32 / Correlation between Abnormal Return and Volume Turnover --- p.33 / Findings on Correlation between Abnormal Return and Volume Turnover --- p.33 / Interpretations of Findings on Correlation between Abnormal Return and Volume Turnover --- p.33 / Correlation between Abnormal Return and Market Value --- p.34 / Findings on Correlation between Abnormal Return and Market Value --- p.34 / Interpretations of Findings on Correlation between Abnormal Return and Market Value --- p.35 / Chapter VII. --- CONCLUSIONS --- p.37 / Chapter VIII. --- LIMITATIONS --- p.39 / Chapter IX. --- FURTHER STUDIES RECOMMENDED --- p.42 / APPENDIX --- p.44 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.54

by Mi Jia, Wang Xueyu. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-78). / ABSTRACT --- p.III / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES --- p.vi / Chapters / INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / DATA AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.6 / EFFICIENCY TESTS --- p.12 / Time Serial Correlation Analysis --- p.12 / Seasonal Fluctuation --- p.16 / General Index's analysis and comparison --- p.17 / Holiday Effect --- p.20 / Test of Predictability in Stock Market Returns --- p.35 / Larger Stock in June effect --- p.37 / Passive Vs Active portfolio (with technical analysis) --- p.39 / Technical analysis --- p.40 / Filter Rules Approach Testing --- p.43 / Returns over Short and Long Horizons --- p.49 / Holding Period Return over Short and Long Horizons --- p.50 / Accumulative Abnormal Return over Short and Long Horizons --- p.51 / Mutual Fund Performance --- p.52 / Mutual Fund vs. Index --- p.53 / Relative Performance among Mutual Funds --- p.54 / "B/M, Size, and P/E Effect" --- p.55 / "Correlation among B/M, Assets, Market Value of A Share, P/E and Beta" --- p.56 / B/M and Annual Return --- p.57 / P/E and Annual Return --- p.59 / Assets and annual return --- p.60 / Market Value of A Share and Annual Return --- p.61 / Beta and Annual Return --- p.53 / Multiple Regressions --- p.64 / CONCLUSION --- p.66 / Limitation of Research --- p.66 / Summary --- p.67 / APPENDIX 1 --- p.69 / APPENDIX 2 --- p.70 / APPENDIX 3 --- p.71 / APPENDIX 4 --- p.72 / APPENDIX 5 --- p.73 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.77

Chan Chi-fai Quincy. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-55). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vi / CHAPTER / Chapter ONE --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter TWO --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 / Chapter THREE --- DATA AND METHODOLOGY --- p.8 / Moving Averages (MA) / Relative Strength Index (RSI) / Buy-and-Hold (B & H) and the Annual Return / Transaction Costs and the Adjusted Return / Chapter FOUR --- EMPIRICAL RESULTS --- p.13 / Hong Kong-HSI / Results Without Short Selling / Results With Short Selling / Results / Singapore - STII / Results Without Short Selling / Results With Short Selling / Results / Taiwan-TWSE / Results Without Short Selling / Results With Short Selling / Results / Korea-KSP / Results Without Short Selling / Results With Short Selling / Results / Chapter FIVE --- CONCLUSION --- p.30 / TABLES --- p.32 / ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.45 / BIBOGRAPHY --- p.52

This study examines two interrelated but separate issues: cross-sectional predictability of equity returns in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and transmission of stock market movements. The first essay empirically investigates to what extent the evidence of three major documented stock market anomalies (earnings-price ratio, firm size, and book-to-market ratio) can be generalized across national stock markets. The second essay studies the price and volatility spillover effects from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the SET. The first essay, using the Fama-Macbeth procedure and the pooled time-series cross-sectional GLS regressions, finds a weak relation between the beta and average stock returns. The adjustment of estimated beta for the effect of thin trading does not change the implications of the results. Of the three anomalies investigated, the size effect has the most prominent and consistent role in explaining average returns. For the earnings-price ratio, the results indicate that the significance of the E/P ratio variable persists only if the nonfinancial firms are considered. In contrast to the previous empirical results for the U.S. and Japanese stock markets, the book-to-market ratio fails to explain the SET equity returns. The second essay employs a generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic (GARCH) model with conditional t-distributed errors to investigate the spillover effects. No evidence of price spillover effects is found for the full sample period. However, the spillover effects are significant during the period in which the Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates. Further examinations reveal that information inferred from price changes in the U.S. market influences only the opening price in the SET, not the open-to-close Thai stock market returns. This implies that price in the SET is informationally efficient with respect to the price determined in the U.S. stock market. The evidence is generally supportive of international financial integration and informational efficiency in the Thai stock market.

This study examines the effects of delisting on firm value, risk and market liquidity. In a world where markets are becoming increasingly integrated, delistings may prove counter productive. We use the unique event, free from company specifics, that occurred on January 2, 1990 in the stock exchanges of Singapore and Malaysia to test for the above effects. On that day, dual listed companies were required to delist from the foreign stock exchange. We also use this event to test if the Singapore and Malaysia markets are globally integrated. Since financial data is found to show persistence in volatility, we model the return generating process in a generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic (GARCH) framework that takes into consideration changing volatility. For comparison purposes, OLS and Time-Deformation models are included. The study found delistings to decrease firm value, the size of which is related to how actively the stocks were previously traded on the foreign stock exchange. Risk levels increased following delistings. Nevertheless, thinly traded stocks showed significant changes in neither firm value nor riskiness. Further evidence of new listings to increase firm value was noted. Consistent with the political motive hypothesis, delisted stocks showed an increase in post-event volume, but however, lost relative liquidity compared with other stocks. While all portfolios considered show evidence for existence of conditional heteroskedasticity, comparison with standard OLS event-study results yields similar conclusions, although the return generating models with GARCH errors result in lower abnormal return variances. As for the time-deformation model, trading volume was found to be a good proxy for rate of information flow only for smaller capitalized stocks. Correlation and regression analyses showed that the Singapore and Malaysia markets are integrated to some degree with the international markets, such that a major delistings event between both markets did not change the pricing of risk in these markets.

The understanding of the emergent behaviour of complex systems is probably one of the most intriguing challenges in modern theoretical physics. In the present Thesis we use novel data analysis techniques and numerical simulations in order to shed some light on the fundamental mechanisms involved in their dynamics. We divide the main core of the research into three parts, each of which address a specific, and formally well defined, issue. In the first part, we study the processes of self - organization and herding in the evolution of the stock market. The data analysis, carried out over the fluctuations of several international indices, shows an avalanche - like dynamics characterized by power laws and indicative of a critical state. Further evidence of criticality relates to the behaviour of the price index itself. In this case we observe a power law decline with superimposed embedded log - periodic oscillations which are possibly due to an intrinsic discrete scale invariance. A stochastic cellular automata, instead, is used to mimic an open stock market and reproduce the herding behaviour responsible for the large fluctuations observed in the price. The results underline the importance of the largest clusters of traders which, alone, can induce a large displacement between demand and supply and lead to a crash. The second part of the Thesis focuses on the role played by the complex network of interactions that is created among the elementary parts of the system itself. We consider, in particular, the influence of the so - called " scale - free " networks, where the distribution of connectivity follows a power law, on the antiferromagnetic Ising model and on a model of stochastic opinion formation. Novel features, not encountered on regular lattices, have been pointed out. In the former case a spin glass transition at low temperatures is present while, in the latter, the turbulent - like behaviour emerging from the model is found to be particularly robust against the indecision of the agents. The last part is left for a numerical investigation of an extremal dynamical model for evolution / extinction of species. We demonstrate how the mutual cooperation between them comes to play a fundamental role in the survival probability : a healthy environment can support even less fitted species. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Chemistry and Physics, 2006.

University of Macau / Faculty of Science and Technology / Department of Computer and Information Science

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-198). Also available on the Internet.