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Table 4 Geographic diversification and bank performance: additional control variables test

From: Does the target market affect bank performance? Evidence from the geographic diversification of city commercial banks in China

Dependent variable

(1) ROA

(2) ROE

(3) NPL ratio

(4) Cost

(5) Market share

1–HHI

− 0.005b (0.002)

− 0.073b (0.031)

2.671c (0.758)

0.009b (0.004)

0.377c (0.082)

Loan ratio

0.015c (0.002)

0.038a (0.020)

0.471 (0.293)

0.032c (0.002)

0.146b (0.067)

Asset ratio

−0.014 (0.009)

−0.153 (0.149)

−6.556b (2.539)

− 0.028b (0.013)

−4.494c (0.956)

Capital

0.007b (0.003)

−0.300c (0.072)

− 0.648 (0.880)

0.010a (0.006)

− 0.272a (0.141)

Asset quality

0.064b (0.027)

−0.344 (0.857)

5.834 (6.855)

0.030 (0.034)

1.509c (0.470)

GDP

−0.190 (0.223)

1.630 (4.167)

− 252.737b (105.728)

− 0.281 (0.417)

−63.497c (19.166)

Age

0.004c (0.001)

0.003 (0.002)

−0.590c (0.048)

− 0.002c (0.002)

0.054c (0.006)

Size

0.004 (0.003)

0.057 (0.047)

1.493a (0.884)

0.014c (0.005)

1.201c (0.340)

Constant

−0.003a (0.002)

0.091c (0.028)

9.881c (0.367)

0.025c (0.002)

−0.411c (0.064)

N

808

808

808

808

808

R2

0.704

0.580

0.461

0.633

0.971

Year fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bank fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. Notes. Standard errors are robust, clustered at the bank level, and reported in parentheses. a, b, and c indicate significance at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively