Table 10

Regression results (moderating effect), based on 4,912 non-financial listed companies from 23 developing countries

(Pooled OLS)(RE)(FE)(OLS with hetero and serial corr)Two-step system GMM
VariablesTDTATDTATDTATDTATDTA
L.TDTA    0.725**ˆ
    (0.007)
LEVTA (Excess of enterprise value over total assets)1.538***0.3080.481**1.538***0.482**
(0.221)(0.226)(0.241)(0.525)(0.237)
PCDBM (Private credit to deposit money bank as % of GDP)0.034***0.0090.074***0.034***0.076***
(0.004)(0.007)(0.014)(0.009)(0.010)
LEVTAPCDBM (LEVTA*PCDBM)0.0387***0.012***0.006*0.039***0.029***
(0.004)(0.004)(0.004)(0.008)(0.004)
LSL (Log of sales)2.771***1.770***1.265***2.771***1.264***
(0.067)(0.099)(0.120)(0.178)(0.116)
MTB (Market-to-book ratio)0.162***0.176***0.184***0.1620.187***
(0.048)(0.037)(0.038)(0.108)(0.031)
PPETA (Property, plant and equipment, net, scaled by total assets)15.490***15.300***14.990***15.490***14.991***
(0.429)(0.533)(0.602)(1.083)(0.598)
DEPTA (Depreciation to total assets)7.048**−0.797−0.7277.048−0.727
(3.532)(3.044)(3.144)(7.707)(3.144)
EBITA (Earnings before interest and tax scaled by total assets)−47.430***−26.530***−23.510***−47.430***−23.499***
(1.163)(0.885)(0.904)(3.413)(0.899)
Fage (Year of establishment)−0.050***−0.048***−0.080***−0.050***−0.083***
(0.004)(0.009)(0.016)(0.011)(0.009)
POR (Payout ratio, in %)−0.139***−0.074***−0.060***−0.139***−0.059***
(0.004)(0.003)(0.003)(0.008)(0.005)
GDPG (Growth rate of GDP, in %)0.501***−0.069**−0.113***0.501***−0.109***
(0.041)(0.035)(0.039)(0.077)(0.029)
INF (Inflation rate, in %)0.355***0.250***0.236***0.355***0.234***
(0.029)(0.020)(0.021)(0.047)(0.018)
INT (Banks' lending rate, in %)0.296***0.105***−0.0360.296***−0.042ˆ
(0.015)(0.024)(0.032)(0.036)(0.023)
Constant0.62811.030***12.900***0.62812.903***
(0.717)(1.031)(1.292)(1.705)(1.288)
Observations43,86643,86643,86643,86643,866
R-squared0.165 0.0520.165 
Number of id 4,9064,906  
Breusch–Pagan LM test (p-value) 0.000   
Hausman test (p-value) 0.000   
Multicollinearity (mean VIF) 2.05   
Heteroscedasticity test (p-value) 0.000   
F-statistics (p-value) 0.000   
AR (2)    0.316
Hansen test    0.471

Note(s): (a) See Table 2 for the definition of variables and measurements. Asterisks indicate significance at 1% (***), 5% (**) and 10% (*)

(b) The standard errors are reported in parenthesis

Source(s): Table by Thakur and modified by Matemilola

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