Skip to main content
. 2020 Dec 15;76:101656. doi: 10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101656

Table 1.

Summary statistics.

Panel A presents summary statistics of the sample firm characteristics. SIZE is the log of market capitalization, QUICK is cash and short-term investments and receivables divided by total assets, CAPEX is total capital expenditure divided by total assets, LEVERAGE is total debt divided by total assets and ROE is return on equity as a proxy of firm's profitability. These variables are 5-year average values before the event year, winsorized at the 1% and 99% level. Various measures of international exposure are included in this study. These include Foreign Sales (FSales), Foreign Assets (FAssets), number of COVID-affected economies in the Top 3 geographic segments (COVID T3), the four Hoberg and Moon (2017) offshore activities variables in the Top 5 COVID-affected economies (T5 OUTPUT, T5 INPUT, T5 ININ and T5 EXIN), Multinationality Index based on Aggarwal et al. (2011) (ABHK), proportion of subsidiaries in the Top 5 COVID-19 affected economies (PROP T5) and the proportion of subsidiaries in China (CHINA). Panel B presents the correlation table for these variables.

Panel A: Summary statistics
SIZE (USD Bn) QUICK CAPEX LEVERAGE ROE FSALES FASSETS COVIDT3 T5 INPUT T5 OUTPUT T5 EXIN T5 ININ ABHK PROP T5 CHINA
Minimum 0.00038 0.00 0.00 0.00 −220.46 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00
Mean 6.93 2.10 3.91 21.11 −4.88 19.15 5.29 0.23 4.71 4.81 0.50 2.62 4.20 0.12 0.07
Median 0.81 1.12 2.25 15.54 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.00 0.08 0.03
Maximum 126.00 17.54 30.76 100.16 55.87 100.00 76.84 3.00 138.00 174.00 26.00 89.00 7.00 1.00 1.00
Std. dev 19.00 3.05 5.28 22.64 40.20 29.17 13.69 0.48 11.54 11.22 1.87 7.05 1.99 0.15 0.12
N 2836 2836 2836 2836 2836 2836 2836 2756 2464 2464 2464 2464 498 498 498



Panel B: Correlation matrix
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
1 SIZE 1.00
2 QUICK −0.02 1.00
3 CAPEX 0.18 0.09 1.00
4 LEVERAGE 0.43 −0.13 0.30 1.00
5 ROE 0.48 0.06 0.14 0.22 1.00
6 FSALES 0.15 0.17 −0.12 −0.09 0.03 1.00
7 FASSETS 0.05 0.01 0.04 0.01 −0.04 0.59 1.00
8 COVID T3 0.00 0.11 −0.03 −0.06 0.06 0.37 0.20 1.00
9 T5 INPUT 0.06 0.12 −0.05 −0.05 −0.04 0.47 0.38 0.31 1.00
10 T5 OUTPUT 0.15 0.13 −0.09 −0.02 0.00 0.43 0.28 0.23 0.73 1.00
11 T5 EXIN −0.02 0.09 −0.01 −0.05 −0.02 0.17 0.09 0.15 0.52 0.40 1.00
12 T5 ININ 0.04 0.07 −0.03 −0.07 −0.04 0.46 0.39 0.32 0.92 0.66 0.38 1.00
13 ABHK 0.19 −0.05 −0.15 0.07 0.06 0.39 0.31 0.14 0.36 0.36 0.12 0.36 1.00
14 PROP T5 0.13 0.21 −0.07 −0.11 0.08 0.42 0.22 0.27 0.59 0.55 0.29 0.60 0.50 1.00
15 CHINA 0.09 0.13 −0.06 −0.06 0.09 0.35 0.21 0.25 0.54 0.49 0.26 0.54 0.51 0.88

Indicates significance at the 5% level.