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Table 3 Descriptive statistics

From: COVID-19 pandemic risk and probability of loan default: evidence from marketplace lending market

 

Pre-pandemic

Post-pandemic

Two-sample t-test

N

Mean

St. dev.

N

Mean

St. dev.

Mean diff.

t-stat

DEFAULT

538,656

0.110

0.312

276,230

0.074

0.262

0.036***

(51.33)

PANDEM_DUM

538,656

0.000

0.000

276,230

1.000

0.000

N/A

N/A

DAILY_CASES

226,980

0.598

2.121

276,187

24.348

40.597

− 23.750***

(− 278.40)

DAILY_DEATHS

226,980

0.005

0.044

276,187

2.053

6.059

− 2.049***

(− 161.09)

MARKET_VOL

538,656

− 0.003

0.631

276,230

0.003

1.293

− 0.005**

(− 2.59)

ESI

538,656

99.854

2.800

276,230

75.675

17.997

24.180***

(963.56)

AAR

538,656

13.066

3.284

276,230

13.289

1.960

− 0.223***

(− 32.84)

UNEMPL

538,656

6.772

4.128

276,230

8.426

4.987

− 1.653***

(− 159.19)

EXT_SCHED

538,656

0.613

0.487

276,230

0.760

0.427

− 0.146***

(− 133.74)

INTEREST

538,656

11.607

2.853

276,230

13.931

3.301

− 2.324***

(− 329.71)

LOAN_TERM

538,656

6.774

15.553

276,230

5.086

12.864

1.688***

(49.09)

AMOUNT

538,656

632.093

1134.417

276,230

546.145

968.904

85.950***

(33.97)

COLLATERAL

538,656

1.092

0.289

276,230

1.111

0.314

− 0.019***

(− 27.43)

  1. T-statistics in parentheses. ***, **, and * represent statistical significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% levels, respectively. Variable definitions are provided in “Appendix 1