Size and book-to-market factors in the relationship between average stock returns and average book returns: some evidence from an emerging market

European Accounting Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 225-243

  Kousenidis, Dimitrios V ^a   Negakis, Christos I ^a   Floropoulos, Iordanis N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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EID: 27844530529     PISSN: 09638180     EISSN: 14684497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638180050129882     Document Type: Article

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