Factors or characteristics? That is the question

Pacific Accounting Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-46

  Gharghori, Philip ^a   Chan, Howard ^b   Faff, Robert ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factors versus characteristics; Fama french model

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249113692     PISSN: 01140582     EISSN: 20415494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01140580610732769     Document Type: Article

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