We are recruiting PhD students. If you are interested in real estate research, please email me. You may take a look at the past thesis topics below, and visit our Real Estate Lab to find out more about our research activities.
Current students
John State, Mingze Bai, Ziwei Lin, Ke Xu, Yue Zhang, Zhen Shen, Bokai Yang, Yumou Wang
Graduates
Dr. Xiaoling Chu: How do political connections mitigate policy uncertainty? Evidence from Chinese real estate firms
Dr. Siru Lu: The transaction price patterns of first-hand residential developments in Hong Kong
Dr. Lu Shen: The impact of informality on the housing sales and rental market in China: empirical evidence from Beijing
Dr. Da Huo: Freedom to choose contracting party under incomplete contract: the case of Airbnb
Dr. Linchuan Yang: The impacts of environment-friendly transportation accessibility on housing prices: empirical evidence from China
Dr. Sujuan Zhang: Developing commercial capabilities for infrastructure delivery: a dynamic capabilities view
Dr. Nikolaos Andreas Soultanidis: Price formation induced spatial autocorrelation: an empirical analysis
Dr. Yang Ji: The impact of local government spending pattern on real estate investment and housing prices in China
Dr. Yurim Han: Homeownership and life stability of expatriates in Hong Kong: a grounded theory analysis
Dr. Ka-sing Cheung: The lock-in effects of subsidized homeownership in Hong Kong
Dr. Ling Li: Information asymmetry in the first- and second-hand housing market
Dr. Kuangkuang Deng: Institutions and capital structure: the case of Chinese property companies
Dr. Jiancong Liang: Factors affecting tenure choice in Hong Kong
Ms. Wenting Huang: Price movements of large and small housing units in Hong Kong: an empirical investigation
Mr. Xiangliang Bai: The effect of corporate governance on the performance of REITs: the evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore
Dr. Yikun Huang: Land supply elasticity and the housing price sensitivity to interest rate
Dr. Daniel Yet-fhang Lo: Factors affecting spatial autocorrelation in housing prices: an empirical study of Hong Kong
Mr. Kin-man Wong: A vector autoregression (VAR) model of housing starts and housing price in Hong Kong
Dr. Qian Wei: Do regulatory frameworks affect the choice of IPO location and post-IPO performance of Chinese real estate firms?
Dr. Chun-wah Li: Spatial autocorrelation and liquidity in Hong Kong’s real estate market
Dr. Ervi Liusman: The effect of land supply restriction on the risk of Hong Kong indirect real estate