Research Article

Relationship between Financial Asset Allocation, Leverage Ratio, and Risk-Taking of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in China: Taking Environment-Related Industries as an Example

Table 5

Robustness test to change the estimation method of risk-taking.

VariableRisk2Risk2LevLevRisk2
Model (2)Model (3)Model (4)Model (5)Model (7)

L. lev0.8236 (0.012)0.8137 (0.014)
L. Risk0.1384 (0.043)0.1431 (0.041)0.1289 (0.040)
Lev0.0816 (0.036)
Fin0.2746 (0.126)0.1062 (0.034)0.2136 (0.095)
Fin20.4513 (0.134)
Lev20.7956 (0.023)
Size−0.1186 (0.139)−0.1231 (0.167)−0.0265 (0.093)−0.0289 (0.101)−0.1023 (0.046)
Age0.0162 (0.007)0.0234 (0.011)0.0017 (0.001)0.0019 (0.003)0.0022 (0.006)
Growth0.1326 (0.062)0.1452 (0.049)0.0058 (0.007)0.0062 (0.009)0.0996 (0.052)
Roa−0.0029 (0.002)−0.0042 (0.003)−0.00036 (0.000)−0.00039 (0.001)−0.0023 (0.002)
Gdp0.0186 (0.006)0.0192 (0.011)−0.0042 (0.001)−0.0046 (0.002)0.0189 (0.007)
Social0.0006 (0.000)0.0009 (0.000)0.0001 (0.000)0.0003 (0.000)0.0006 (0.000)
Constant term2.2286 (0.796)3.1256 (0.8023)0.6439 (0.089)0.7726 (0.093)1.8865 (0.695)

Notes. Standard error in parentheses; , , mean significant at the level of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively.