Research Article

Audit Committee Disclosure Tone and Corporate Violations in China: Textual Analysis

Table 6

Robust test: the alternative period of violations.

VariableVIOLVIOLN

TONE−0.539
(−2.25)
−0.526
(−3.75)
Control variableIncludedIncluded
INDU/YEARIncludedIncluded
Intercept1.613
(3.10)
2.027
(6.52)
N6,2106,210
Pseudo R2/adj R20.0940.107

Notes: , , and indicate statistically significant at the 10%, 5%, and 1% levels, respectively (two-tailed). t-values are in parentheses. The robustness test only lists the regression results of the main variables and does not report the control variables.