Tom Fong

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

55/F, Two International Finance Centre, Central

Hong Kong

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1.

A Framework for Stress Testing Banks' Credit Risk

The Journal of Risk Model Validation, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3-23, Spring 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2009
Jim Wong, Ka-fai Choi and Tom Fong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Hong Kong banking, credit risk, macroeconomic shocks, seemingly unrelated regression, value-at-risk

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Loan-to-Value Ratio as a Macroprudential Tool - Hong Kong's Experience and Cross-Country Evidence

Systemic Risk, Basel III, Financial Stability and Regulation 2011
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Feb 2011
T. C. Wong, Tom Fong, Ka-Fai Li and Henry Choi
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Systemic risk, macroprudential policy, loan-to-value ratio, Hong Kong

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Determinants of the Performance of Banks in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Working Paper Series No. 06/2007
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Nov 2007
Jim Wong, Tom Fong, T. C. Wong and Ka-fai Choi
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Profitability, Price, Hong Kong Banking, Bank efficiency, Market structure

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Stress Testing Banks' Credit Risk Using Mixture Vector Autoregressive Models

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Jan 2009
Tom Fong and Chun Shan Wong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Stress test, Hong Kong banking, credit risk, mixture autoregressive models, macroeconomic shocks, value-at-risk

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Competition in Hong Kong's Banking Sector: A Panzar-Rosse Assessment

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Nov 2007
Jim Wong, T. C. Wong, Tom Fong and Ka-fai Choi
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Hong Kong, Market structure, Bank competition, Panzar-Rosse model

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Share Price Disparity in Chinese Stock Markets

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Sep 2007
Tom Fong, Alfred Wong and Ivy Yong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Price disparity, Chinese stock markets, Panel data analysis

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Residential Mortgage Default Risk in Hong Kong

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jan 2009
Jim Wong, Laurence Fung, Tom Fong and Angela Sze
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Independent
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Residential Mortgage Market, Loan-to-value Ratio, Negative Equity, Default Probability

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Interest Rate Risk in the Pricing of Banks' Mortgage Lending

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jan 2009
Jim Wong, Laurence Fung, Tom Fong and Cho-Hoi Hui
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department
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Interest rate risk, Residential mortgage rate, Banking stability

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An Assessment of the Long-Term Economic Impact of the New Regulatory Reform on Hong Kong

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Research Note No. 05/2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Feb 2011
T. C. Wong, Tom Fong, Ka-Fai Li and Henry Choi
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Basel, banking crisis, Hong Kong

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The Cost Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Hong Kong

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Nov 2007
Jim Wong, Tom Fong, T. C. Wong and Ka-fai Choi
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Hong Kong Banking, Cost efficiency, Stochastic frontier approach

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Testing for Collusion in the Hong Kong Banking Sector

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Sep 2007
Jim Wong, T. C. Wong, Tom Fong and Ka-fai Choi
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Conjectural variation, price, Hong Kong banking, market structure

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Price Cointegration between Sovereign CDS and Currency Option Markets in the Financial Crises of 2007-2013

International Review of Economics & Finance, 40 (2015) 174–190
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 01 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2015
Cho-Hoi Hui and Tom Fong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Sovereign Risk, Currency Options, Credit Default Swaps, Cointegration

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Is the Hong Kong Dollar Exchange Rate 'Bounded' in the Convertibility Zone?

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Working Paper No. 13/2007
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Oct 2007
Cho-Hoi Hui and Tom Fong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Linked Exchange Rate system, target zone, mean reversion, bounded process

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Probabilistic Approach to Measuring Early-Warning Signals of Systemic Contagion Risk

International Journal of Financial Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2018) 1850010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2018
Cho-Hoi Hui, Chi-Fai Lo, Xiao Fen Zheng and Tom Fong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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systemic risk; probability density distributions; contagion

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Measuring Spillovers between the US and Emerging Markets

HKIMR Working Paper No.08/2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Jun 2016
Tom Fong, Ka-Fai Li and Angela Sze
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Independent
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spillovers, contagion, systemic risk, financial integration, vector autoregression, emerging markets, monetary policy normalisation, sovereign bond markets.

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Swiss Franc’s One-Sided Target Zone During 2011-2015

International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 44, 54-67, 2016
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2016
Cho-Hoi Hui, Chi-Fai Lo and Tom Fong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Exchange Rate Target Zone, Swiss Franc, Quasi-Bounded Process

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A Quasi-Bounded Target Zone Model – Theory and Application to Hong Kong Dollar

International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 37, 2015, 1-17
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2015
Chi-Fai Lo, Cho-Hoi Hui, Tom Fong and S.W. Chu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Research Department, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
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stochastics process, target zone, bounded process

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Gauging the Safehavenness of Currencies

HKIMR Working Paper No.13/2013 (revised version: October 2016)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Alfred Wong and Tom Fong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Safe Haven Currency, Risk Reversal, Quantile Regression, Mixture Vector Autoregressive Models, Tail Risk, Crash Risk

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Accounting for Sovereign Tail Risk in Emerging Economies: The Role of Global and Domestic Risk Factors

HKIMR Working Paper No. 24/2015
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Dec 2015
Tom Fong, Ka-Fai Li and John Fu
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Sovereign risk; tail risk; CDS spread; emerging markets; US monetary policy

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The Rise of Hong Kong's Corporate Bond Market: Drivers and Implications

BIS Paper No. 83i
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Nov 2015
David Leung, Ceara Hui, Tom Fong and Alfred Wong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Corporate bond market, Hong Kong SAR, financial intermediation, corporate leverage, bank-based financing, market-based financing

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Tail Risk Spillover in Asia Pacific Stock Market

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 Oct 2017
Tom Fong, Ka-Fai Li and Edmund Ho
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Spillovers; tail risk; vector autoregression; emerging markets

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Determinants of Mutual Fund Flows to Hong Kong Equities

HKIMR Working Paper No. 18/2017
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Aug 2017
Tom Fong, Angela Sze and Edmund Ho
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Independent and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Mutual funds, portfolio rebalancing, event studies, panel data, quantile regressions, time series models

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Assessing the Interconnectedness between Cross-Border Shadow Banking Systems

HKIMR Working Paper No. 5/2018
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Feb 2018
Tom Fong, Angela Sze and Edmund Ho
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Independent and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Shadow Banking, Financial Intermediation, Interconnectedness, Spillovers, Financial Stability Board

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How Might Sovereign Bond Yields in Asia Pacific React to US Monetary Normalisation Under Turbulent Market Conditions?

HKIMR Working Paper No.13/2015
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 May 2015
Tom Fong, Ceara Hui and Alfred Wong
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Sovereign Credit Risk, Tail Risk, Value-at-Risk, Quantile Regression, Vector Autoregression, Impulse Response Function, Principal Components

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Predictability in Sovereign Bond Returns Using Technical Trading Rules: Do Developed and Emerging Markets Differ?

HKIMR Working Paper No. 03/2019
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jan 2019
Tom Fong and Gabriel Wu
Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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trading rule, return predictability, monetary cycle, machine learning, business cycle, spillover, market efficiency

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Term Premium Spillovers from the US to International Markets

HKIMR Working Paper No. 07/2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Mar 2017
Ka-Fai Li, Tom Fong and Edmund Ho
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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Spillovers, term premium, financial integration, vector autoregression, emerging markets, affine term structure model, sovereign bond markets

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A Taste for Dim Sum: Analysing the Financial Diffusion in the New Offshore Renminbi Debt Securities Market

HKIMR Working Paper No.14/2018
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Jun 2018
Tom Fong, Paul Mizen and Serafeim Tsoukas
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, University of Nottingham and University of Glasgow - Adam Smith Business School
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financial innovation, offshore bond markets, dim sum, Hong Kong

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Do Long-Term Institutional Investors Contribute to Financial Stability? – Evidence from Equity Investment in Hong Kong and International Markets

HKIMR Working Paper No.22/2018, September, 2018
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
Tom Fong, Angela Sze and Edmund Ho
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Independent and Hong Kong Monetary Authority
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long-term investment, institutional investors, insurance companies, pension funds, portfolio rebalancing, pro-cyclicality, financial stability, panel data, time series analysis