Table 5.

Financial Ties and Voting in Favor of Sponsor

Financial Tie	Favor Sponsor Versus Not Favor Sponsor Odds (95% CI) p-value	Difference Between Financial Tie and No Financial Tie Odds Ratio (95% CI) p-value
A. All Votes
Sponsor only	1.98***	1.49**
	(1.41,2.77)	(1.04,2.15)
	p < 0.001	p = 0.032
Competitor only	1.37**	1.03
	(1.07,1.74)	(0.78,1.36)
	p = 0.012	p = 0.829
Both sponsor and competitor	1.54**	1.16
	(1.03,2.29)	(0.77,1.76)
	p = 0.034	p = 0.481
No financial ties to either sponsor or competitor	1.32***	ref
	(1.20,1.46)
	p < 0.001
Number of Question-Votes	15,739
Number of voting participants	1,379
Number of questions	1,168
B. Non-unanimous Votes
Sponsor only	1.69***	1.56**
	(1.19,2.40)	(1.06,2.28)
	p < 0.001	p = 0.023
Competitor only	1.38**	1.27
	(1.07,1.80)	(0.95,1.71)
	p = 0.014	p = 0.105
Both sponsor and competitor	0.85	0.79
	(0.52,1.42)	(0.47,1.33)
	p = 0.543	p = 0.369
No financial ties to either sponsor or competitor	1.09	ref
	(0.98,1.20)
	p = 0.102
Number of Question-Votes	9,718
Number of voting participants	1,236
Number of questions	699

***p < 0.01; **p < 0.05; *p < 0.10. Standard errors clustered on question.