Leung, Wai K., Wu, Kai-chun, Wong, Christine Y. P., Cheng, Alfred S. L., Ching, Arthur K. K., Chan, Anthony W. H., ...
Cyclooxoygenase (COX)-2 overexpression is involved in gastric carcinogenesis. While high-salt intake is a known risk factor for gastric cancer development, we determined the effects of high salt on...
Evidence on the Dynamic Relationship Between International Trade and the Stock Market
Hung-Gay Fung, Wai-Chung Lo, Wai K. Leung
This study uses vector autoregressive analysis to examine the dynamic interactions of monthly real stock returns, return volatility, exchange rates, export growth and import growth for Hong Kong,...
Fung, Hung-Gay, Lo, Wai-Chung, Leung, Wai K
This study uses vector autoregressive analysis to examine the dynamic interactions of monthly real stock returns, return volatility, exchange rates, export growth and import growth for Hong Kong,...
Leung, Wai K., Kim, Jae J., Kim, Jong G., Graham, David Y., Sepulveda, Antonia R.
The role and significance of microsatellite instability (MSI) in gastric carcinogenesis remain unknown. This study determined the chronology of MSI in gastric carcinogenesis by examining intestinal...
Sung, Joseph J. Y., Leung, Wai K., Go, Minnie Y. Y., To, Ka F., Cheng, Alfred S. L., Ng, Enders K. W., ...
Expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in various stages of the Helicobacter pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis pathway has not been elucidated. We investigated the distribution and intensity...
Institutional Interventions and Performance of Futures Markets in China
LEO H. CHAN, KAM C. CHAN, WAI K. LEUNG
We study the establishment and development of the most successful futures market in China. We document the evolution of the market microstructures and the attempts by the Zhengzhou Commodity...
Information Flows between the U.S. and China Commodity Futures Trading.
Fung, Hung-Gay, Leung, Wai K, Xu, Xiaoqing Eleanor
Using a bivariate GARCH model, we examine patterns of information flows for three commodity futures traded in both the developed U.S. market and the emerging China market (copper, soybeans and...
Option Theory and Defaultable Mortgage Pricing
The existing mortgage pricing literature either fails to consider the default option or gives numerical results only. Solutions using numerical methods not only do not provide the intuition of...
A Lattice Approach to Pricing Fixed-Rate Mortgages with Default and Prepayment Options
Existing models on the pricing of default and prepayment options in fixed-rate mortgages either use numerical methds or they do not consider refinancing or other transaction costs involved in default...
Further Analysis of the Put-Call Parity Implied Risk-Free Interest Rate
Frankfurter, George M, Leung, Wai K
In this paper the put-call parity implied riskless rate of borrowing and lending is reexamined. Using a rigorous model, it is shown that, given the level of an observable proxy of the risk-free rate...