Table 8

OLS and 2SLS regressions for business and investment climate in Turkey

Panel A: OLSDV: Logarithm of value addedDV: Labour productivityDV: Logarithm of TFPPanel B: IVDV: Logarithm of value addedDV: Labour productivityDV: Logarithm of TFP
Business climate−0.1704*** (0.0511)−0.1673* (0.0854)−0.1232* (0.0663)Business climate−0.2732** (0.1214)−0.2566* (0.1353)−0.1854* (0.1038)
Logarithm of firm size0.8377*** (0.0880)0.1275 (0.0859)0.3910*** (0.0564)Logarithm of firm size0.6839** (0.2881)0.1651 (0.2169)0.3655*** (0.0829)
Young firms0.1990 (0.3357)0.0712* (0.0368)0.5573** (0.2167)Young firms0.2373 (0.4445)0.0692* (0.0363)0.5843** (0.2736)
Is one of the owners female? (Yes)0.3101* (0.1681)0.1834 (0.2425)0.1497 (0.1324)Is one of the owners female? (Yes)0.2859* (0.1528)0.2149 (0.2263)0.1129 (0.1502)
Manager's years of experience0.0133 (0.0088)0.0162 (0.0104)0.0027 (0.0054)Manager's years of experience0.0187 (0.0133)0.0165 (0.0212)0.0036 (0.0068)
International quality assurance qualification (Yes)0.1866* (0.1044)0.1294 (0.2561)0.2074 (0.1435)International quality assurance qualification (Yes)0.2225* (0.1276)0.1569 (0.2244)0.1872 (0.1312)
Is the firm part of another establishment? (Yes)0.8496*** (0.2887)0.6110* (0.3396)0.1351 (0.1795)Is the firm part of another establishment? (Yes)0.8172** (0.3910)0.6003* (0.3133)0.1394 (0.1937)
Firm status (public owned)−0.0020 (0.0025)0.0211 (0.0286)0.1081*** (0.0103)Firm status (reference manufacturing)−0.0039 (0.0045)0.0228 (0.0315)0.1044*** (0.0292)
No. observations2,0131,7441,097No. observations1,8711,615946
R-square0.30770.18400.2772Centered R-Square0.22020.15220.2514
    Weak identification test21.654 [0.000]15.678 [0.000]12.232 [0.0002]
    Hansen J statistic13.274 [0.1506]18.034 [0.0889]9.984 [0.3517]

Note(s): Standard errors within brackets, p-values within the square brackets, ***, ** and * indicate significance respectively at the 1, 5 and 10% level. The period of analysis is 2008–2013

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