Table 13 Industrial robot adoption, market competition, and firm’s trade credit.

From: The impact of industrial robot adoption on firm’s trade credit

 

(1)

(2)

 

Lower market competition

Higher market competition

VARIABLES

Credit

Credit

lnexposure

0.001

0.007**

 

(0.35)

(2.23)

Size

0.006

0.015***

 

(1.39)

(2.65)

Age

0.030***

0.033***

 

(4.47)

(3.97)

ROA

−0.111***

−0.101***

 

(−4.94)

(−4.13)

LEV

−0.085***

−0.146***

 

(−3.81)

(−6.58)

Growth

0.004**

0.003

 

(2.10)

(1.52)

CashFlow

0.099***

0.090***

 

(6.13)

(4.64)

PPE

0.002

0.022

 

(0.14)

(1.07)

SOE

0.012

0.030**

 

(1.61)

(2.36)

Top1

0.000

0.000*

 

(1.32)

(1.93)

Inst

−0.000

−0.000**

 

(−0.17)

(−1.99)

Dual

−0.002

−0.003

 

(−0.56)

(−0.73)

Indep

0.000

0.000

 

(1.10)

(0.19)

Board

0.017

0.004

 

(1.43)

(0.27)

StaffIntensity

−0.006***

−0.012***

 

(−2.82)

(−4.42)

MarketShare

0.261***

0.282

 

(3.46)

(1.62)

Constant

−0.120

−0.265**

 

(−1.18)

(−2.03)

N

5518

5495

Firm fixed effect

YES

YES

Year fixed effect

YES

YES

Adj-R2

0.814

0.799

  1. Robust t-values clustered at the firm level are shown in parentheses; *, **, and *** denote significance at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively.