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. 2021 Aug 20;133:106299. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106299

Table 9.

Systemic risk during the pandemic. the moderating role of national culture and societal trust.

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Dependent Variable: ΔCoVaR
COVID19_GR 1.873⁎⁎ 1.620⁎⁎ 2.292⁎⁎ 2.136⁎⁎⁎ 1.751⁎⁎⁎ 2.443⁎⁎
(2.59) (2.51) (2.60) (3.35) (3.00) (2.62)
COVID19_GR × PDI -0.949⁎⁎⁎
(-2.99)
COVID19_GR × COL -1.065⁎⁎⁎
(-5.03)
COVID19_GR × MAS 0.441
(0.80)
COVID19_GR × UAI -1.142⁎⁎⁎
(-3.32)
COVID19_GR × LTO -1.217⁎⁎⁎
(-3.78)
COVID19_GR × Trust -0.973⁎⁎⁎
(-3.90)
Size -0.041 -0.049 -0.048 -0.057 -0.054 -0.041
(-1.06) (-1.21) (-1.30) (-1.36) (-1.22) (-0.76)
Leverage 0.008⁎⁎⁎ 0.008⁎⁎⁎ 0.008⁎⁎⁎ 0.008⁎⁎⁎ 0.008⁎⁎⁎ 0.004
(3.17) (3.23) (3.02) (2.86) (2.92) (1.40)
Return -0.432⁎⁎⁎ -0.422⁎⁎⁎ -0.432⁎⁎⁎ -0.413⁎⁎⁎ -0.428⁎⁎⁎ -0.426⁎⁎⁎
(-4.12) (-4.05) (-4.11) (-3.97) (-4.18) (-4.41)
Volatility 0.182⁎⁎⁎ 0.181⁎⁎⁎ 0.190⁎⁎⁎ 0.191⁎⁎⁎ 0.187⁎⁎⁎ 0.199⁎⁎⁎
(7.45) (7.54) (7.27) (7.71) (7.42) (7.75)
Bank FE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Day FE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Country Cluster Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Observations 288,645 288,645 288,645 288,645 279,490 191,983
Adj. R2 0.869 0.871 0.868 0.870 0.870 0.864

This table reports results on the moderating effects of national culture and societal trust. ΔCoVaR is the proxy for systemic risk; COVID19_GR is the 14-day moving average log growth rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases; PDI is the extent to which the less powerful expect and accept that power is distributed unequally; COL is the degree to which a society stresses the role of the group versus that of the individual; MAS is the extent to which “male assertiveness” is promoted as a dominant value in a society; UAI is a society's tolerance for uncertain, unknown, or unstructured situations; LTO is the extent to which long-term interests are valued more than short-term ones; Trust is societal trust. All control variables are lagged. All specifications include bank and day fixed effects and control variables. Standard errors are adjusted for clustering at the country level. t-statistics are in brackets. ***, **, and * indicate statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.