The Role of Book Income, Web Traffic, and Supply and Demand in the Pricing of U.S. Internet Stocks

Review of Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 295-317

  Hand, John R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings; Internet stocks; Rational pricing; Supply and demand; Web traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956570616     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013872530040     Document Type: Review

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