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Price/Book Value Ratios and Equity Returns on the Tokyo Stock Exchange: Empirical Evidence of an Anomalous Regularity

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  • Aggarwal, Raj
  • Hiraki, Takato
  • Rao, Ramesh P

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This study examines the relationship between accounting data and financial market data for securities listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We document, for the first time for a non-U.S. market, a significant price to book value ratio effect; i.e., Japanese equities with low price to book value ratios earn higher returns than those with high price to book value ratios, and this price to book value effect is stronger in January and June and for smaller firms. One implication of the international pervasiveness of these empirical regularities is that explanations for these effects that are based on unique institutional or accounting procedures are unlikely to be sufficient. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.

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  • Aggarwal, Raj & Hiraki, Takato & Rao, Ramesh P, 1992. "Price/Book Value Ratios and Equity Returns on the Tokyo Stock Exchange: Empirical Evidence of an Anomalous Regularity," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 27(4), pages 589-605, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:finrev:v:27:y:1992:i:4:p:589-605
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    8. Barbara Fidanza, 2008. "The Valuation by Multiples of Italian Firms," Working Papers 14-2008, Macerata University, Department of Studies on Economic Development (DiSSE), revised Nov 2008.

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