Tangibility and investment irreversibility in asset pricing

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 809-827

  Docherty, Paul ^a   Chan, Howard ^b   Easton, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Fama French model; Investment irreversibility; Tangibility of assets

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149247595     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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