Table 4.
Outcomes of the hypothesis testing.
| Hypotheses | Effect | Original coefficient | Standard bootstrap results |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean value | Standard error | t-value | p-value (2-sided) | p-value (1-sided) | Accepted | |||
| H1 | SB ->RE | 0.1063 | 0.1145 | 0.0567 | 1.8749 | 0.0611 | 0.0306 | Yes |
| H2 | SB -> EB | 0.317 | 0.3177 | 0.0704 | 4.505 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| H3 | EB ->RE | 0.0413 | 0.0404 | 0.0832 | 0.4968 | 0.6194 | 0.3097 | No |
| H4 | TB ->RE | 0.1317 | 0.1322 | 0.0799 | 1.6491 | 0.0994 | 0.0497 | Yes |
| H5 | TB ->EB | 0.2367 | 0.2407 | 0.0768 | 3.0797 | 0.0021 | 0.0011 | Yes |
| H6 | RB ->RE | 0.5705 | 0.5649 | 0.0738 | 7.7281 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| H7 | RB ->RE | 0.3249 | 0.3236 | 0.0641 | 5.0687 | 0 | 0 | Yes |
Note: SB = social barriers; EB = economic barriers; TB = technological barriers; RB = regulatory barriers; RE = deployment of renewable energy.