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Latest Research
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Competition and Reward Practices: Evidence from Public Schools
In this study, the researchers explored how competition intensity in the market for public services affected the reward practices of managers. Financial and nonfinancial rewards…
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Timely Cybersecurity Disclosure and Information Manipulation
Cybersecurity incidents pose a significant business risk to modern companies. Consequently, regulators have increasingly mandated prompt disclosures regarding cybersecurity incidents to facilitate timely and effective…
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Credit information sharing and firm innovation: Evidence from the establishment of public credit registries
This study examined the effect of credit information sharing on corporate innovation. Although innovation is important for firm growth, these activities tend to have highly…
Insight Articles
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The Validation Tax: Shifting Focus from Production to Verification in the AI Era
When used appropriately, generative AI can significantly enhance human productivity. It can help teams explore strategies, draft marketing plans, and greatly expand the breadth and…
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AI Investment Bubble?
As global technology conglomerates project an unprecedented $390 billion expenditure on Artificial Intelligence infrastructure in 2025, the discourse surrounding a potential “AI bubble” has intensified.
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Rethinking Education When AI Matches Human Creativity
A few weeks ago, the parents’ WeChat group of a top international school in Hong Kong blew up. It all started with one mother’s dilemma:…
Disclosing Endogenous Cost Information
The question of whether and how firms disclose their private information to competitors is a significant and well-researched topic in economics. Classical literature on firms’ information sharing under oligopoly settings…
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The Validation Tax: Shifting Focus from Production to Verification in the AI Era
When used appropriately, generative AI can significantly enhance human productivity. It can help teams explore strategies, draft marketing plans, and greatly expand the breadth and speed of individual output.
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AI Investment Bubble?
As global technology conglomerates project an unprecedented $390 billion expenditure on Artificial Intelligence infrastructure in 2025, the discourse surrounding a potential “AI bubble” has intensified.
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Rethinking Education When AI Matches Human Creativity
A few weeks ago, the parents’ WeChat group of a top international school in Hong Kong blew up. It all started with one mother’s dilemma: “The essay written by AI…
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Harnessing Web 3.0: Strengthening Hong Kong’s Status as a Global Financial Hub
Against the backdrop of the global Web 3.0 boom, which is driving the continuous expansion of the virtual asset market and reshaping the international financial order, building a balanced and…
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When Interdependence Fades: How AI and Automation Are Recasting Global Trade
Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming traditional patterns of international trade, enabling developed countries to gain an endogenous comparative advantage in industries that were previously intensive in low-skilled labor,…
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The Story of Hong Kong’s Ride-Hailing Services: Then and Now
In Hong Kong, a densely populated international metropolis, the red, green, and blue taxis flowing through the streets once symbolized the city’s vitality.
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The Subtle Strategies behind Hong Kong Stock Privatizations
Following the proposal in February 2025 by its Japanese parent company Toridoll Holdings to privatize Tam Jai International, which had been listed in Hong Kong for less than three and…
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Establishing Hong Kong as a Regional IP Trading Centre: Taking China’s IP to the World
Two years ago, we wrote the article “Commercialization of Intellectual Property Benefits High-quality Economic Development” in this newspaper column and, together with the Hong Kong Young Industrialists Council, published the…
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The Next Labubu: Can Pop Mart’s Star-Making Legend Sustain?
Starting in 2024, a doll named Labubu—with pointy little ears, devil-like large eyes, and a grin revealing nine sharp fangs—took the world by storm.
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The Resurgence of Economic Woes in Argentina
Entering the last quarter of 2025, the rekindling of the China-US trade war dispelled the atmosphere of truce in the wake of four rounds of bilateral trade talks. The current…
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Resisting Skill Erosion: Harnessing AI for Personal Growth
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developing in leaps and bounds in recent years. Reams of academic studies have shown that human-AI collaboration is conducive to enhancing efficiency and creativity…
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