Economic value added: Some empirical EVAdence

Managerial Finance

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 60-71

  Biddle, Gary C ^a   Bowen, Robert M ^b   Wallace, James S ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic value added; EVA; Incremental information content; Relative information content; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954802271     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074359810765714     Document Type: Article

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