Table A5.

The individual and joint impacts of EPU and inflation on loan price by GMM

China’s EPUGlobal EPUChina’s EPUGlobal EPU
Med EPU SCMPGlobal med EPUMed EPU SCMPGlobal med EPU
EPU measuresCoef.Std. errCoef.Std. errCoef.Std. errCoef.Std. err
L.Loan price0.072***(0.027)0.060***(0.022)0.244**(0.122)0.277*(0.143)
c.EPU−0.008***(0.001)−0.029***(0.003)−0.007***(0.001)−0.021***(0.005)
c.Inflation0.323***(0.045)0.341***(0.044)0.621***(0.113)0.470***(0.087)
c.Inflation × c.EPU    0.002***(0.001)0.004***(0.001)
Interest expense to liabilities2.718***(0.133)2.713***(0.142)2.639***(0.187)2.629***(0.202)
Non-interest expenses to assets−0.296(0.572)0.111(0.490)−0.327(0.454)0.204(0.381)
LLP to gross loans0.496***(0.163)0.279(0.172)0.338**(0.164)0.215(0.170)
Equity to assets−0.095*(0.049)−0.121**(0.051)−0.073*(0.041)−0.101**(0.042)
Loan to deposits−0.005(0.004)−0.005(0.005)−0.005(0.003)−0.005(0.004)
Bank size0.249(0.181)0.221(0.187)0.352(0.257)0.079(0.243)
GDP growth−0.250***(0.031)−0.451***(0.049)−0.117***(0.027)−0.224***(0.066)
p-Value of AR1/AR20.001 / 0.260.011 / 0.120.003 / 0.6910.002 / 0.947
p-Value of Hansen0.7690.8350.5930.684
No. of observations1,229 1,229 1,361 1,361 

Note(s): ***, ** and *indicate 1, 5 and 10% levels of significance, respectively

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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