The Green Credit Policy Impact on the Financial Performance of Commercial Banks: A Quasi-Natural Experiment from China

Table 2

Variable definition and description.

Variable	Symbol	Definition
Explained variable	PROFIT	The natural logarithm of the total profit
Explanatory variable	TREAT∗POST	The interaction term of post and treat
	POST	POST = 1 (after 2016), otherwise POST = 0
	TREAT	TREAT = 1 (treatment group), otherwise TREAT = 0 (control group)
Internal control variables	SIZE	The natural logarithm of total assets
	NPLR	Nonperforming loan ratio
	CAR	Capital adequacy ratio
	CIR	Cost-income ratio
	LDR	Loan-deposit ratio
	NIIR	Net interest income/total income
External control variables	GRGDP	The annual growth rate of GDP
	MP	A measure of market position, as measured by the total ASSET/GDP