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Table 8 Robustness test

From: Critical audit matters and stock price crash risk

 

Change different measure of crash risk

Test of before and after the implementation

Placebo test

Exclude firms in financial industry

No winsorizing

Variable

DUVOL

NCSKEW

NCSKEW

NCSKEW

NCSKEW

CAMDUMt–1

 

−0.588a

   
  

(0.321)

   

CAM_TREATt–1

−0.00115

 

0.0157

−0.0501

0.0192

 

(0.123)

 

(0.161)

(0.179)

(0.173)

CAM_YEARt–1

−0.0470

 

0.817c

−0.113b

− 0.0572

 

(0.0415)

 

(0.0593)

(0.0571)

(0.0563)

TREAT·YEARt–1

−0.326a

 

− 0.269

− 0.413a

− 0.450a

 

(0.172)

 

(0.215)

(0.243)

(0.242)

Sizet–1

0.0846c

−0.0271

− 0.0817c

0.117c

0.0541b

 

(0.0202)

(0.143)

(0.0255)

(0.0282)

(0.0240)

ABS_DAt–1

0.0617

−3.803

−0.0302

0.271

0.126

 

(0.239)

(2.346)

(0.274)

(0.329)

(0.178)

ROAt–1

0.533

− 3.997

−0.350

0.196

0.0251

 

(0.357)

(3.951)

(0.430)

(0.491)

(0.170)

Levt–1

− 0.105

0.759

−0.0148

− 0.173

− 0.0268

 

(0.105)

(1.030)

(0.129)

(0.144)

(0.129)

Dturnt–1

0.0146

0.0501

0.00703

0.00605

−0.00289

 

(0.0217)

(0.145)

(0.0302)

(0.0300)

(0.0260)

StdWt–1

3.891c

7.765

3.844c

5.313c

5.493c

 

(0.889)

(8.004)

(1.074)

(1.226)

(1.177)

MBt–1

0.0385c

0.481

0.0148

0.0539c

0.000882

 

(0.0106)

(0.428)

(0.0134)

(0.0146)

(0.00137)

SOEt–1

0.0854b

−0.202

0.113b

0.136c

0.125b

 

(0.0367)

(0.370)

(0.0450)

(0.0508)

(0.0506)

Top1t–1

−0.00191a

− 0.00595

− 0.00119

−0.00242

− 0.00224

 

(0.00114)

(0.0100)

(0.00143)

(0.00157)

(0.00157)

Independentt–1

0.330

−1.709

0.195

0.299

0.389

 

(0.301)

(2.462)

(0.363)

(0.415)

(0.403)

Constant

−2.737c

0.422

0.944

−3.620c

−2.214c

 

(0.455)

(3.670)

(0.592)

(0.634)

(0.544)

IND

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No. of obs.

3964

142

3903

3922

3962

  1. Notes. a, b and c represent the significance levels of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively