Hong Kong Property Title Registration and Governance Data for Academic Replication

Michael D. Wang provides a replication package for an academic article on property governance in Hong Kong. The package contains cleaned and merged datasets from the licensed CSMAR database, along with Jupyter Notebook code to reproduce the article's tables and figure. It was last updated on June 9, 2026, and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Reproduce statistical analyses on adverse possession claims based on the provided CSMAR data.
• Verify empirical findings related to mortgage finance and property markets in Hong Kong.
• Use the provided Jupyter Notebooks as a template for similar legal-economic data analysis workflows.

Strengths

• Includes pre-cleaned and merged datasets from the licensed CSMAR database, which likely reduces preprocessing effort.
• Provides specific Jupyter Notebook files (table_01.ipynb, etc.) for full reproducibility of the article's outputs.
• Has a specific last update timestamp of 2026-06-09 15:37:00.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited to replication purposes; actual data scope and quality require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Licensed CSMAR database, processed by the author.

Collection Method

Data was cleaned, preprocessed, and merged for academic replication.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 15:37:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Hong Kong