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. 2021 Aug 4;63(3):489–535. doi: 10.1057/s41294-021-00160-5

Table 8.

Horse race results for both firms’ performance variables per selected world region, 2009.

Sources Refinitiv Worldscope; IMF, World Economic Outlook database; and authors' estimations

Variables Sales Capital expenditures
Asia Canada Europe Asia Canada Europe
Combined effectsa
Fiscal impulse (A) + (B) 0.205 − 0.515 1.094*** 0.129** 0.166* 0.031
(0.796) (− 1.150) (4.736) (2.408) (1.789) (0.612)
Monetary impulse via working capital dependency (C) + (D) 0.483 − 0.361*** − 1.163*** − 0.108* − 0.048* − 0.060
(1.361) (− 2.720) (− 4.613) (− 1.690) (− 1.650) (− 1.054)
Monetary impulse via investment capital dependency (C) + (E) 0.385 0.113** − 1.083*** − 0.100 0.015 − 0.060
(1.035) (2.415) (− 3.870) (− 1.510) (1.028) (− 0.990)
Regression resultsb
Fiscal Impulsec (A) − 0.813 0.956** 0.114 0.073
(− 1.357) (2.252) (0.891) (0.769)
Fiscal impulse * business cycle sensitivity (B) 8.704** − 4.713 1.170 0.124 1.521* − 0.356
(2.497) (− 1.152) (0.368) (0.167) (1.791) (− 0.579)
Change in short-term interest rated ( C) 0.421 − 1.103*** − 0.105 − 0.060
(1.156) (− 4.104) (− 1.602) (− 1.010)
Change in short-term interest rate * working capital dependency (D) 0.336*** − 0.690*** − 0.211 − 0.019 − 0.092* 0.000
(2.678) (− 2.731) (− 1.077) (− 0.726) (− 1.666) (0.001)
Change in short-term interest rate * investment capital dependency (E ) − 0.157 0.376** 0.084 0.020 0.050 − 0.002
(− 1.161) (2.406) (0.547) (0.808) (1.018) (− 0.085)
Change in the other firm's performance (percent of assets)d 0.113 0.005 0.271** − 0.000 − 0.003 − 0.001
(1.321) (1.064) (2.151) (− 0.685) (− 0.727) (− 0.821)
Leverage: total debt in t−1 (log, thousand USD) 0.184 0.010 0.808*** − 0.177*** 0.212 − 0.153***
(1.132) (0.043) (3.110) (− 5.630) (1.550) (− 3.322)
Size: total assets in t−1 (log, thousand USD) − 0.116 − 0.497 − 1.321*** 0.249*** − 0.216 0.225***
(− 0.553) (− 1.576) (− 4.247) (5.458) (− 1.520) (4.040)
Short-term debt in t−1 (percent of total debt) − 0.043*** − 0.041*** − 0.030*** 0.004*** − 0.001 0.006***
(− 6.351) (− 3.276) (− 3.076) (2.813) (− 0.128) (2.800)
Balance sheet liquidity: cash in t−1 (percent of assets) − 0.073*** 0.038 0.016 0.014*** 0.034*** 0.025***
(− 4.005) (1.326) (0.654) (4.649) (3.590) (6.286)
Observations 10,734 959 4,413 10,811 902 4,503
Wald (Chi-squared) test 47.3*** 165.7*** 162.9*** 94.4*** 50.0*** 105.2***
Number of countries 1 12 23 12 1 23
Number of clusters 146 1509 1470 1516 150 1499

Notes: Robust t-statistics in parentheses estimated using clustered standard errors at three-digit sector level. Significance at ***p < 0.01; **p < 0.05; *p < 0.10

aLinear combination of the impulse variable coefficients indicated in each row and its interaction term with the respective sectoral variable evaluated at the median of the sectoral variable for the sample used in the regression

bAll estimations use the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimators and include sector-level dummies (not reported in the table)

cFiscal impulse is defined as the negative of the change in structural public balances

d Fiscal impulse variable instrumented by unexpected government spending measured by IMF staff forecast errors (a negative value indicates a tighter fiscal position) and lagged values of the change in short-term interest rates and changes in the other performance variable divided by the asset ratio