The relationship between size, book-to-market equity ratio, earnings-price ratio, and return for the Hong Kong stock market

Global Finance Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 163-179

  Lam, Keith S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Book to market equity ratio; CAPM; Earnings price ratio; Size effect;

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036389636     PISSN: 10440283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-0283(02)00049-2     Document Type: Article

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