A note on the time series behaviour of earnings per share data of Taiwanese firms

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 641-650

  Bao, Ben Hsien ^a   Bao, Da Hsien ^a   Firth, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean reverting; Predictive ability; Random walk; Taiwanese earnings per share; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951447462     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.1996.tb01030.x     Document Type: Article

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