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What is the Doing Business project about? The Doing Business project from the World Bank provides objective and quantitative measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional levels, which serves as an important indicator for multinational companies when choosing potential...

Understanding common errors in surveys and statistical reports Errors extensively exist in most of the survey results, whose sources vary from nonresponse error, measurement error, framing error, etc. When reading statistics from a survey, we need  to recognize all sorts of potential errors behind it, in order to avoid being...

Cautionary remarks of interpreting the survey results There are a few cautionary remarks worth paying attention to when reading the number of Regional Headquarters(RHQs) /Regional Offices(ROs)/Local Offices(LOs) in the report of “Annual survey of companies in Hong Kong with Parent Companies Located outside Hong Kong" ( called the Survey hereafter),...

Executive summary: The number of RHQs in Hong Kong grew steadily in the long run, despite dropping for two consecutive years in 2020 and 2021. The number of RHQs from mainland China rose exceptionally in recent years, narrowing the share gap with the US, the head in the list. Over...

On 3 September 2021, the Belt & Road Global Forum Annual Roundtable 2021 was held by Belt and Road Global Forum in Hong Kong. Prof SHENG Liugang participated in the event with a presentation on "Driving Growth through Connectivity—Harnessing the new momentum of the GBA（Greater Bay Area）and RCEP（Regional Comprehensive Economic...

On 6 July 2021, the APEC Study Centre Consortium (ASCC) was held online by APEC New Zealand. Prof. Travis Ng participated in the event with a presentation on “Some Economic Effects of Foreign Ownership Restrictions”. The aim of having foreign ownership restrictions is to protect insiders/ local people. It is...

Our student helper team has conducted a test run on their game – Unilateral Trade – on the last Saturday, 27 February 2021. The test run was to examine the game design and whether the messages behind can be effectively delivered. Unilateral Trade is a teaching case for promoting trade liberalisation....

On the last Saturday (23 Jan 2021), we have successfully tested our teaching case - Balance of Payment. The aim of this test run is to examine whether our game design of this teaching case is effective to deliver the message behind. Balance of Payment is a teaching case that introduces Current Account and Capital Account. Current...

Representing Faculty of Social Science, Prof. Travis NG delivered a talk on Virtual Regional Fair 2020 on 12 Dec, 2020. The Fair was an event held by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, aiming to provide admission information for high-school students. The talk, titled “The Social Scientific Nature of Business Organisations”, was to...

The E-APEC Study Centres Consortium Conference 2020 was hosted by Malaysian APEC Study Center (MASC) at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) on Sept 23, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic ,the Conference was held through ZOOM meeting. The theme this year is “Towards an Inclusive, Sustainable Growth...

HK@APEC Seminar was held on Sept 26, 2020, by part of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (HKCPEC) and Junior Achievement Hong Kong (JA HK). This seminar is one part of “Play” It Forward HK@APEC Game Design Competition where participants, mostly secondary school students, apply their knowledge to game design. Prof. Travis NG...

On May 15 and 20, Prof. Travis NG led our student helpers to implement our game “Invisible Trade” for the students from Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School and Po Leung Kuk Yao Ling Sun College respectively. It was a valuable experience for both of our students and the secondary school...

We had successfully run a pilot test for the teaching case invisible trade. The objectives of the pilot test are the following: Examining the validity of the designated games Testing whether the games successfully deliver the main intuition to the subjects. The teaching case consists 4 parts:   Introduction Tutor...

We joined and supported the Workshop: 101 on Hong Kong Public Funding for Startups organised by StartupsHK on 29 Nov 2018. The Hong Kong government announced billions of dollars of funding for startups and SMEs, in this year, Financial Secretary Paul Chan has set aside HKD 50 billion to enhance Hong Kong’s innovation and...

The 2018 APEC Study Centre Consortium Conference (ASCCC) held on 14-15 May 2018 at the International Convention Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The conference aims to support the overall objectives of APEC 2018 hosted by Papua New Guinea. It will also be another opportunity for APEC’s network of...

APEC Study Centre hosted an International Student Summit (ISS) from 10 May 2018 12 May 2018 for elite students from different countries. It aims to bring together high schools and universities from different economies, deepen understanding each others themes and exchanging ideas so as to foster global perspectives and partnerships....

The seminar on “Free Trade and Globalisation - The Hong Kong Experience in Retrospect and the Prospects” organised by the Trade and Industry Department and supported by APEC Study Centre, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, was held successfully on 1st December 2017. Close...

Dr Law Cheung Kwok, Co-director of APEC Study Centre, visited APEC Study Centre of Thailand at Thammasat University and met their director, Professor Suphat Suphachalasai. Dr Law also gave a talk to ASEAN students.

Dr Law Cheung Kwok, Co-director of APEC Study Centre, participated in a conference and presented a paper: “Policy for Promoting MSMEs Modernization towards Industry 4.0 in Hong Kong, China”    

APEC 2nd Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM-2) APEC Study Centre, CUHK participated in APEC 2nd Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM-2) and related meetings held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 10th - 13th May 2017 and presented in 2 sessions. Workshop on SMEs’ Integration into Global Value Chains in Services Industries Under the chair...

The APEC Study Centre published a short paper “Entrepreneurship in APEC and Hong Kong” in the “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Hong Kong and Shenzhen 2016 - 2017” report in February 2017. This paper analyses entrepreneurial activities in Hong Kong and the APEC region using the proprietary dataset from the Global Entrepreneurship...

The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. The society is holding meeting around the worlds to provide a platform for scholars to share their fruits of research and exchange ideas with outstanding scholars. This year, the Asian Meeting of...

Economics 3.0 and the HKIAPS jointly organised the “GoodTalk” show in March 2016, a free public talk series where speakers from a variety of backgrounds are invited to discuss salient economic issues. The theme of the talk was “Future of the Pension System” where the speaker panel was composed of 2 government...