Ka‐shing Cheung
Biographic Data
| ID | 1707066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ka‐shing Cheung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ka‐shing |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheung |
| SIGNATURE | CHEUNG K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7377-3184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mapping unobserved coopetitions between shopping malls using mobile geolocation data
This study challenges the conventional retail catchment analysis, which typically asserts that proximity is the primary driver of shopping mall patronage. Using mobile geolocation data, we explore the catchment areas for patrons of two major Auckland malls, influenced by both cooperation and competition (known as coopetition) amongst mall and tenants, alongside the actual consumer preferences. By mapping the home-like locations of these mall patr…
Touristification and retail diversity: Theory and evidence
This study explores the impact of touristification on retail diversity in neighbourhoods, presenting a species-area relationship model to demonstrate how tourism-driven changes can negatively affect local residents by displacing unique local retailers. Empirical regression analysis, using differences-in-difference (DID) models and neighbourhood clustering to define retail areas in Hong Kong, found that tourist-concentrated areas have fewer divers…
Airbnb pricing and term structure: A temporal analysis of omitted variable bias and repeat sales method as remedies
Many tourism studies leverage the hedonic price model to gauge tourists’ willingness to pay for diverse attributes of short-term rental properties. However, when this estimation is applied to the temporal analysis, it can be biased if variables varying with time, such as term structure effects in short-term rentals, are omitted. This paper introduces a repeat sales Airbnb ADR (average daily rate) index to track the change in quality-adjusted rent…
The heterogeneous impacts of widespread upzoning: Lessons from Auckland, New Zealand
Zoning reform is increasingly recognised as an important strategy to increase housing affordability and environmental sustainability. Few cities have undertaken significant upzoning of low-density neighbourhoods, making the 2016 Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP) probably the most ambitious zoning reform in the world. Parcels zoned for single houses previously dominated Auckland, but three-quarters of them now allow multiple units. Existing studies have…
The paradox of airbnb, crime and house prices: A reconciliation
While in many housing studies, Airbnb is evidenced to be a demand driver that leads to a positive effect on property rents and prices, it is also argued that such tourist accommodation in a neighbourhood causes an increase in criminal activities that weigh on its property values. How can we reconcile such contradictory arguments? This research note aims to use a difference-in-differences model to empirically disentangle the moderating effect of A…
Endowment Effects of Shared Ownership: Evidence from Hong Kong
The endowment effect is a behavioral bias; postulating people demand more to part with an object they own than they would offer to acquire the same object owned by others. Recent experimental research, however, suggests that this effect applies to consumption goods rather than exchange goods. Given that housing is a mix of consumption and exchange goods, it presents a unique opportunity to examine whether the effect exists in the real world throu…
Decoding the work-from-home phenomenon: Insights From Location-Based Service Data
The global pandemic has catalysed a shift in the job market, with remote work evolving from being an option to a widespread practice. This profound change goes beyond a temporary response to an extraordinary crisis; it could potentially mark the beginning of a new era in employment. In this featured graphic, we evaluate and visualise the work-from-home (WFH) trend in Auckland, the most populous metropolis in New Zealand. Applying a modified open-…
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail
Touristification is an emerging concept used to enable the understanding of how various stakeholders interfere and transform a neighbourhood through tourist activities. This study develops a touristification rent gap theory to examine how an influx of tourists causes an increase in retail rents. We hypothesise that ceteris paribus, a higher tourist-concentrated area, will have higher demands for tourist-specific goods and services that increase r…
Public perception of flood hazards in the housing market: A revealed preference study of affect heuristics and availability heuristics
The economics of architectural aesthetics: Identifying price effect of urban ambiences by different house cohorts
Although interest in sensory atmospheres and urban ambiences has been growing in urban studies, little is known about the economics of such ambiences. In architecture research, urban atmospheres or ambiences have been studied qualitatively through surveys and interviews. So far, the value of ambience has been focused and quantified only for heritage buildings. However, non-heritage buildings and open spaces also shape urban ambiences, either posi…
Measuring the Stress of Moving Homes: Evidence from the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure
Moving homes has long been considered stressful, but how stressful is it? This study is an original attempt to utilise a micro-level individual dataset in the New Zealand Government’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to reconstruct the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) and thereby measure stress at a whole-of-population level. The effects of residential mobility on people’s mental well-being in the context of their stress-of-moving home…
What matters more, school choices or neighbourhoods? Evidence from a socioeconomic based school zoning
Touristification, Airbnb and the tourism-led rent gap: Evidence from a revealed preference approach
Understanding the Spatial Effects of Unaffordable Housing Using the Commuting Patterns of Workers in the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure
Commuting behaviour has been intensively examined by geographers, urban planners, and transportation researchers, but little is known about how commuting behaviour is spatially linked with the job and housing markets in urban cities. New Zealand has been recognised as one of the countries having the most unaffordable housing over the past decade. A group of middle-class professionals called ‘key workers’, also known during the pandemic as ‘essent…
The land governance cost on co-ownership: A study of the cross-lease in New Zealand
Marriage-induced homeownership as a driver of housing booms: Evidence from Hong Kong
Buying a home for marriage is customary in many societies. Traditionally, therefore, young couples getting married is a key driver of demand for homeownership. Yet the idea of marriage-induced demand for homeownership is a relatively underexplored component of housing price change. We examine the role of marriage-induced demand for homeownership in Hong Kong, a relatively self-contained housing market with fewer options for migration than most la…
Understanding visitor–resident relations in overtourism: Developing resilience for sustainable tourism
While almost all travel destinations seek to increase tourists, less attention is paid to balancing the growth in tourists against consequent visitor–resident irritants, which is essential if the objective is to make tourism more sustainable. Overlooking the carrying capacity of a destination is a common mistake committed when formulating travel visa policies. Overtourism is a term recently used to contextualize this potential hazard to many popu…
Housing price dispersion in the presale market
Sale before completion (i.e. presale) is a common practice that real estate developers use to sell residential units. Since presale buyers are unable to inspect uncompleted units, developers may take advantage of asymmetric information and release information about quality to the market selectively. The search theory also suggests that incomplete pricing information, especially for new products, will induce a less competitive market that is chara…
Understanding governance of public land sales: An experiment from Hong Kong
For centuries, many governments in the Asia-Pacific region have owned all the land resources, and government land auctions were deployed as an essential channel to supply public land. While the government-led approach to land supply is often criticized for lacking sensitivity to changing market conditions, experiments have been conducted to remedy this defect by means of a market-led approach that relies on developers to reveal their demand for p…
Housing price and transaction intensity correlation in Hong Kong: Implications for government housing policy
Skipping economics classes: A case study from Hong Kong
This paper investigates the determinants of student attendance of economics classes. Course-specific and individual-specific factors are shown to have significant impacts on class attendance. It was found that female students and overseas students skip classes less often. Surprisingly, students involved in extracurricular activities attend classes more often than students who are not involved in these activities. [Copyright of Journal of Higher E…
Marriage-induced homeownership as a driver of housing booms: Evidence from Hong Kong
Buying a home for marriage is customary in many societies. Traditionally, therefore, young couples getting married is a key driver of demand for homeownership. Yet the idea of marriage-induced demand for homeownership is a relatively underexplored component of housing price change. We examine the role of marriage-induced demand for homeownership in Hong Kong, a relatively self-contained housing market with fewer options for migration than most la…
Touristification, Airbnb and the tourism-led rent gap: Evidence from a revealed preference approach
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail
Touristification is an emerging concept used to enable the understanding of how various stakeholders interfere and transform a neighbourhood through tourist activities. This study develops a touristification rent gap theory to examine how an influx of tourists causes an increase in retail rents. We hypothesise that ceteris paribus, a higher tourist-concentrated area, will have higher demands for tourist-specific goods and services that increase r…
The heterogeneous impacts of widespread upzoning: Lessons from Auckland, New Zealand
Zoning reform is increasingly recognised as an important strategy to increase housing affordability and environmental sustainability. Few cities have undertaken significant upzoning of low-density neighbourhoods, making the 2016 Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP) probably the most ambitious zoning reform in the world. Parcels zoned for single houses previously dominated Auckland, but three-quarters of them now allow multiple units. Existing studies have…
Housing price and transaction intensity correlation in Hong Kong: Implications for government housing policy
Endowment Effects of Shared Ownership: Evidence from Hong Kong
The endowment effect is a behavioral bias; postulating people demand more to part with an object they own than they would offer to acquire the same object owned by others. Recent experimental research, however, suggests that this effect applies to consumption goods rather than exchange goods. Given that housing is a mix of consumption and exchange goods, it presents a unique opportunity to examine whether the effect exists in the real world throu…
The land governance cost on co-ownership: A study of the cross-lease in New Zealand
Housing price dispersion in the presale market
Sale before completion (i.e. presale) is a common practice that real estate developers use to sell residential units. Since presale buyers are unable to inspect uncompleted units, developers may take advantage of asymmetric information and release information about quality to the market selectively. The search theory also suggests that incomplete pricing information, especially for new products, will induce a less competitive market that is chara…
Skipping economics classes: A case study from Hong Kong
This paper investigates the determinants of student attendance of economics classes. Course-specific and individual-specific factors are shown to have significant impacts on class attendance. It was found that female students and overseas students skip classes less often. Surprisingly, students involved in extracurricular activities attend classes more often than students who are not involved in these activities. [Copyright of Journal of Higher E…
Housing price and transaction intensity correlation in Hong Kong: Implications for government housing policy
Understanding visitor–resident relations in overtourism: Developing resilience for sustainable tourism
While almost all travel destinations seek to increase tourists, less attention is paid to balancing the growth in tourists against consequent visitor–resident irritants, which is essential if the objective is to make tourism more sustainable. Overlooking the carrying capacity of a destination is a common mistake committed when formulating travel visa policies. Overtourism is a term recently used to contextualize this potential hazard to many popu…
Housing price dispersion in the presale market
Sale before completion (i.e. presale) is a common practice that real estate developers use to sell residential units. Since presale buyers are unable to inspect uncompleted units, developers may take advantage of asymmetric information and release information about quality to the market selectively. The search theory also suggests that incomplete pricing information, especially for new products, will induce a less competitive market that is chara…
Understanding governance of public land sales: An experiment from Hong Kong
For centuries, many governments in the Asia-Pacific region have owned all the land resources, and government land auctions were deployed as an essential channel to supply public land. While the government-led approach to land supply is often criticized for lacking sensitivity to changing market conditions, experiments have been conducted to remedy this defect by means of a market-led approach that relies on developers to reveal their demand for p…
Marriage-induced homeownership as a driver of housing booms: Evidence from Hong Kong
Buying a home for marriage is customary in many societies. Traditionally, therefore, young couples getting married is a key driver of demand for homeownership. Yet the idea of marriage-induced demand for homeownership is a relatively underexplored component of housing price change. We examine the role of marriage-induced demand for homeownership in Hong Kong, a relatively self-contained housing market with fewer options for migration than most la…
Understanding the Spatial Effects of Unaffordable Housing Using the Commuting Patterns of Workers in the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure
Commuting behaviour has been intensively examined by geographers, urban planners, and transportation researchers, but little is known about how commuting behaviour is spatially linked with the job and housing markets in urban cities. New Zealand has been recognised as one of the countries having the most unaffordable housing over the past decade. A group of middle-class professionals called ‘key workers’, also known during the pandemic as ‘essent…
The land governance cost on co-ownership: A study of the cross-lease in New Zealand
Public perception of flood hazards in the housing market: A revealed preference study of affect heuristics and availability heuristics
The economics of architectural aesthetics: Identifying price effect of urban ambiences by different house cohorts
Although interest in sensory atmospheres and urban ambiences has been growing in urban studies, little is known about the economics of such ambiences. In architecture research, urban atmospheres or ambiences have been studied qualitatively through surveys and interviews. So far, the value of ambience has been focused and quantified only for heritage buildings. However, non-heritage buildings and open spaces also shape urban ambiences, either posi…
Measuring the Stress of Moving Homes: Evidence from the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure
Moving homes has long been considered stressful, but how stressful is it? This study is an original attempt to utilise a micro-level individual dataset in the New Zealand Government’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) to reconstruct the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) and thereby measure stress at a whole-of-population level. The effects of residential mobility on people’s mental well-being in the context of their stress-of-moving home…
What matters more, school choices or neighbourhoods? Evidence from a socioeconomic based school zoning
Touristification, Airbnb and the tourism-led rent gap: Evidence from a revealed preference approach
The paradox of airbnb, crime and house prices: A reconciliation
While in many housing studies, Airbnb is evidenced to be a demand driver that leads to a positive effect on property rents and prices, it is also argued that such tourist accommodation in a neighbourhood causes an increase in criminal activities that weigh on its property values. How can we reconcile such contradictory arguments? This research note aims to use a difference-in-differences model to empirically disentangle the moderating effect of A…
Endowment Effects of Shared Ownership: Evidence from Hong Kong
The endowment effect is a behavioral bias; postulating people demand more to part with an object they own than they would offer to acquire the same object owned by others. Recent experimental research, however, suggests that this effect applies to consumption goods rather than exchange goods. Given that housing is a mix of consumption and exchange goods, it presents a unique opportunity to examine whether the effect exists in the real world throu…
Decoding the work-from-home phenomenon: Insights From Location-Based Service Data
The global pandemic has catalysed a shift in the job market, with remote work evolving from being an option to a widespread practice. This profound change goes beyond a temporary response to an extraordinary crisis; it could potentially mark the beginning of a new era in employment. In this featured graphic, we evaluate and visualise the work-from-home (WFH) trend in Auckland, the most populous metropolis in New Zealand. Applying a modified open-…
Unfolding touristification in retail landscapes: Evidence from rent gaps on high street retail
Touristification is an emerging concept used to enable the understanding of how various stakeholders interfere and transform a neighbourhood through tourist activities. This study develops a touristification rent gap theory to examine how an influx of tourists causes an increase in retail rents. We hypothesise that ceteris paribus, a higher tourist-concentrated area, will have higher demands for tourist-specific goods and services that increase r…
Touristification and retail diversity: Theory and evidence
This study explores the impact of touristification on retail diversity in neighbourhoods, presenting a species-area relationship model to demonstrate how tourism-driven changes can negatively affect local residents by displacing unique local retailers. Empirical regression analysis, using differences-in-difference (DID) models and neighbourhood clustering to define retail areas in Hong Kong, found that tourist-concentrated areas have fewer divers…
Airbnb pricing and term structure: A temporal analysis of omitted variable bias and repeat sales method as remedies
Many tourism studies leverage the hedonic price model to gauge tourists’ willingness to pay for diverse attributes of short-term rental properties. However, when this estimation is applied to the temporal analysis, it can be biased if variables varying with time, such as term structure effects in short-term rentals, are omitted. This paper introduces a repeat sales Airbnb ADR (average daily rate) index to track the change in quality-adjusted rent…
The heterogeneous impacts of widespread upzoning: Lessons from Auckland, New Zealand
Zoning reform is increasingly recognised as an important strategy to increase housing affordability and environmental sustainability. Few cities have undertaken significant upzoning of low-density neighbourhoods, making the 2016 Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP) probably the most ambitious zoning reform in the world. Parcels zoned for single houses previously dominated Auckland, but three-quarters of them now allow multiple units. Existing studies have…
Mapping unobserved coopetitions between shopping malls using mobile geolocation data
This study challenges the conventional retail catchment analysis, which typically asserts that proximity is the primary driver of shopping mall patronage. Using mobile geolocation data, we explore the catchment areas for patrons of two major Auckland malls, influenced by both cooperation and competition (known as coopetition) amongst mall and tenants, alongside the actual consumer preferences. By mapping the home-like locations of these mall patr…
Economics (19 works) · Business (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Housing Market and Economics (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Finance (6 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ceteris paribus (4 works)