Australian banking efficiency and its relation to stock returns

Economic Record

Volumn 82, Issue 258, 2006, Pages 253-267

  Kirkwood, Joshua ^a   Nahm, Daehoon ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; PROFITABILITY; STOCK MARKET;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33746769804     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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