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This article uses Hong Kong stock market’s four sub-indices to examine the existence and causes of rational expectation bubbles. The unit root test is applied to the rational bubble hypothesis. Various causality test methods are used to examine the causality of bubble among the four sub-indices. The empirical results show that in the sub-periods of 1986 to 2002 and 2000 to 2012, the bubbles of commerce and industry and utilities industries are consistent with rational expectation bubbles, but not so in the finance and properties industries. In general, the rational expectation bubbles in the two sub-periods seemed to have been caused by expectations in other growing foreign economies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since 1997, when the political sovereignty of Hong Kong reverted to China, the integration of the two economies has steadily increased. This article examines the economic and institutional differences between mainland China and Hong Kong, and considers the spillover benefits for the provinces adjacent to Hong Kong. The economic and productivity growth of mainland China and Hong Kong are decomposed into four attributes: input growth, adjusted scale effect, technical progress, and efficiency growth. A stochastic frontier model is used to estimate the growth attributes, and a human capital variable is incorporated in the production function. The empirical study compares the growth, productivity, and efficiency performance of mainland China and Hong Kong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the political economy of Hong Kong, China before and after 1997. Overview of fundamental economic problems; Implications of the end of British rule for investors; Strategies for the promotion of a long-term investment attitude.