Table III

Panel data analysis results – relationship between SR and CAR

Pooled OLSFixed effectsRandom effects
Coef.p (Sig)Coef.p (Sig)Coef.p (Sig)
Observations880880880
No. of groups  220220
Intercept2.2530.066−6.9070.5202.2530.095
UE0.2850.0000.2190.0000.2720.000
SD0.3980.0150.6090.0220.4200.014
UE×SD0.1680.0220.2110.0080.1790.013
MB−0.0140.7650.0880.384−0.0080.871
UE×MB0.0350.0980.0420.0700.0370.079
FSZ−0.1190.0300.3160.527−0.1200.047
UE×FSZ0.0420.0740.0370.1490.0420.072
LEV0.8270.0051.2800.2590.8440.008
UE×LEV0.0910.4980.1610.2780.1010.447
Age0.0150.868−0.2910.7720.0140.889
UE×Age−0.1810.000−0.1140.076−0.1700.001
Year effectYesYesYes
R2 – overall0.11870.05670.1186
F-test
χ2  1.34  
Prob.  0.0029  
Hausman test
χ2   15.35 
Prob.   0.3544 
LM test
χ2    7.47
Prob.    0.0031

Notes: CAR is the firm’s cumulative market-adjusted stock returns for the three-day earnings announcement window; UE is the difference between the actual earnings and the expected earnings, which measures as the difference between the firm’s current year EPS (EPSt) and firm’s last year EPS (EPSt-1); SD is a dichotomous variable that takes 1 if the firm discloses sustainability reports and 0 otherwise; MB is the market-to-book ratio; FSZ is the natural logarithm of total assets; LEV is the total debt to total assets ratio and Age is the natural logarithm of the number of years since the firm’s inception

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