Benchmarking Inter-Organizational System Architecture of Trade Facilitation in Singapore, Hong Kong, Netherlands and USA

Beyond Singapore: Hong Kong and Asian biodiversity.

Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important Were Trade Spillovers?

Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important were Trade Spillovers? Ramkishen S. Rajan and Rahul Sen The literature on the East Asian crisis has concentrated almost exclusively on the five crisishit economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines (Asia-5). Relatively scant attention has been paid to Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which also suffered from...

Hong Kong and Singapore: Two models of telecommunications regulations?

This paper examines how telecommunications regulation in Hong Kong and Singapore has evolved since the 1970s and in particular, how the boundaries between the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors have been increasingly blurred as the two cities have responded to technical convergence. By analysing the telecommunications regulation development in Hong Kong and Singapore, this paper argues...

Effects of U.S. Inflation on Hong Kong and Singapore

Standard economic models predict that the choice of an exchange rate regime has important implications for the interdependency of national monetary policies, which is sometimes measured by the degree of inflation transmission across borders. In this paper, we examine how inflation rates in two small open economies, namely Hong Kong and Singapore, interact with that in the U.S. It is found that ...

Benchmarking Hong Kong and China energy codes for residential buildings

Mandatory energy codes to curb energy use of residential buildings have been formally launched in China for more than two decades but little has been publicized in literature. Similar codes are not available for residential buildings in Hong Kong, but most residential buildings in Hong Kong, especially public housing estates, are HK-BEAM certified to demonstrate their compliance with regulatory...