Table 4 Severity of the famine and firm risk-taking.

From: How Chief Executive Officers’ first-hand experience of the Great Chinese Famine affects risk-taking?

Variables

Firm risk-taking t + 1

 

Model 1

Model 2

CEO age

−0.003*** (0.000)

−0.003*** (0.000)

CEO gender

−0.001 (0.009)

0.000 (0.009)

CEO education

−0.017*** (0.004)

−0.016*** (0.004)

Duality

0.017*** (0.004)

0.017*** (0.004)

ROA

−0.204*** (0.036)

−0.207*** (0.036)

Concentration

−0.003** (0.002)

−0.003** (0.002)

Size

−0.000 (0.000)

−0.000 (0.000)

Slack

−0.003*** (0.001)

−0.003*** (0.001)

TMT famine experience

0.072*** (0.020)

0.075*** (0.020)

MI

0.013*** (0.001)

0.013*** (0.001)

State ownership

0.042*** (0.005)

0.042*** (0.005)

Market competition

0.000 (0.000)

0.000 (0.000)

Severity of the famine

0.524 (0.389)

3.501*** (1.333)

Severity of the famine* Severity of the famine

 

−57.044** (24.427)

Constant

0.589*** (0.025)

0.588*** (0.025)

Birth place fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Birth status fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Observations

6451

6451

  1. Robust standard errors are in parentheses.
  2. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1, two-tailed test.