Corporate Transparency As An Investor Protection Tool: Evidence From Russia
Table 3:
| Variable | Market-to-book ratio | |
| coeff. | t-stat. | |
| Transparency score | 0.17 | 1.6* |
| Age | 0.29 | 15.7*** |
| Independent director | 0.05 | 0.65 |
| Leverage | 0.32 | 5.81*** |
| Foreign ownership | -0.19 | -1.8* |
| State ownership | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| Number of board members | -0.05 | -1.44* |
| Sectoral dummies | - | |
| Time dummies | + | |
| F (10,402) | 50.85 | |
| R2 (within) | 0.31 | |
| R2 (between) | 0.02 | |
| R2 (overall) | 0.02 | |
| Rho | 0.90 | |
| corr ( , ) | -0.84 | |
| Const. | -3.21 | -7.36 |
