Do Investors See Through Accounting Profitability and Recognize Efficiency? Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies
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market valuation; profitability; efficiency; stochastic frontier; chinese listed firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
- M11 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Production Management
- M16 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - International Business Administration
- P34 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Finance
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
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