Market value, book value and earnings: is bank efficiency a missing link?

Managerial Finance

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-179

  Abuzayed, Bana ^a   Molyneux, Philip ^a   Al Fayoumi, Nedal ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Banking; Jordan; Market value

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015618257     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350910923491     Document Type: Article

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