Endogenous problems in cross-sectional valuation models based on accounting information

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-265

  Gil Alana, L A ^a   Iniguez Sanchez, R ^b   Lopez Espinosa, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deflator; Employees; Endogeneity; Scale effect; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960604498     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-010-0203-2     Document Type: Article

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