People’s Republic of China-Hong Kong Special Administrative Region1: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund

No 2001/146, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper analyzes the long-term fiscal policy in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the anticipated structural changes in the economy. The paper examines the factors that contributed to the stability of the banking system in Hong Kong SAR by assessing the roles played by banks, equity markets, and debt markets. The study describes a procedure to extract the probability distribution of future exchange rate movements based on currency option data. The paper also provides a statistical appendix report of the country.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; bank; bond market; revenue; debt market; volatility risk premium; market participant; market belief; market condition; expenditure growth; market liquidity; Securities markets; Return on investment; Stock markets; Bank credit; Asia and Pacific; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 78
Date: 2001-08-17
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