The validity of the economic value added approach: An empirical application

European Financial Management

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-100

  Kyriazis, Dimitris ^a   Anastassis, Christos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Economic value added; Incremental information content; Market value added; Relative information content; Residual income

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847253875     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2006.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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