Research Article

Controlling Shareholders’ Equity Pledge and Listed Companies’ Stock Repurchase

Table 5

Regression results of propensity score matching.

Variable(1)(2)(3)(4)
Rpurchase1Rpurchase2Rpurchase1Rpurchase2

Pledge10.16010.2199
(6.500)(2.964)
Pledge20.11080.1675
(2.774)(4.066)
Constant−3.9705−3.9444−12.7738−12.1484
(−17.632)(−17.504)(−16.777)(−15.924)
YearYYYY
IndustryYYYY
Observations15567152121556715212
R-squared0.0770.0770.0430.045
F59.9551.5440.8139.97

Note. The t-test value is in brackets, using company-level clustering robust standard error; , , and are significant at the level of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively.