Table 2 Summary statistics.

From: Banking disclosure and banking crises in Africa: does board gender diversity play a role?

Variable

Mean

Std. dev.

Min

Max

SWILK

VIF (mean VIF = 1.27)

Banking Crisis

0.0591

0.2359

0

1

0.00***

 

Number of Women

1.1011

1.5186

0

11

0.00***

1.98

Women on Boards

0.0985

0.1248

0

1

0.00***

1.97

Bank Disclosure

5.1982

2.3684

0

10

0.00***

1.01

LERNER

0.5100

0.4930

−1.1979

2.2209

0.00***

1.03

OWN

0.5197

0.4996

0

1

0.00***

1.01

GDPperCap

2.7602

4.0427

−17.4726

24.2148

0.00***

1.04

ExRate

6.645

7.81

0.9165

10.2657

0.00***

1.07

infRate

8.8618

5.5289

−1.8006

33.2242

0.00***

1.03

  1. Women on Boards = Dummy variable: 1, when a woman is an executive member, and 0 otherwise; Number of women on board measured as the proportion of Women on Board; Bank Disclosure = categorical variable (0–10): level of investor protection through disclosure of ownership and financial information or level of releasing relevant financial information pertaining to a bank (from no disclosure = 0, — to — maximum disclosure = 10); Lerner index is the only measure of competition; Ownership (OWN) is the percentage of board members who hold shares in the bank; Exchange Rate (ExRate) is the Annual Exchange rate per year; GDP per capita (GDPperCap) is the natural logarithm of GDP per capital.
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