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Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Corporate pledgeable asset ownership and stock price crash risk

Descriptive statistics

 

N

Mean

SD

10th Pctl

25th Pctl

50th Pctl

75th Pctl

90th Pctl

Crash risk measures

CRASHt

88,248

0.232

0.422

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

1.000

NCSKEWt

88,248

0.027

1.136

− 1.259

− 0.645

− 0.012

0.635

1.342

DUVOLt

88,248

0.025

0.854

− 1.021

− 0.522

0.007

0.552

1.084

Main variables

CPAOt−1

88,248

0.094

0.153

0.000

0.000

0.017

0.142

0.259

CPAO(PPE)t−1

88,093

0.327

0.419

0.000

0.000

0.113

0.609

0.888

CPAO(Asset)t−1

88,248

0.264

0.224

0.039

0.089

0.197

0.379

0.619

Control variables

DTURNt−1

88,248

0.002

0.182

− 0.078

− 0.026

− 0.001

0.025

0.083

NCSKEWt−1

88,248

0.009

1.118

− 1.257

− 0.654

− 0.029

0.607

1.306

SIGMAt−1

88,248

0.071

0.040

0.030

0.042

0.061

0.089

0.123

RETt−1

88,248

− 0.003

0.011

− 0.016

− 0.008

− 0.002

0.003

0.008

SIZEt−1

88,248

4.880

2.161

2.143

3.294

4.762

6.337

7.774

MBt−1

88,248

2.168

2.469

0.909

1.117

1.515

2.338

3.919

LEVt−1

88,248

0.176

0.211

0.000

0.002

0.118

0.280

0.436

ROAt−1

88,248

− 0.040

0.471

− 0.283

− 0.045

0.035

0.086

0.146

ACCt−1

88,248

0.004

0.373

− 0.227

− 0.093

0.000

0.093

0.232

R&Dt−1

88,248

0.063

0.170

0.000

0.000

0.003

0.066

0.175

R&D_MISSINGt−1

88,248

0.370

0.483

0.000

0.000

0.000

1.000

1.000

KUTt−1

88,248

2.500

3.733

− 0.129

0.399

1.360

3.130

6.197

GWt−1

88,248

0.079

0.130

0.000

0.000

0.002

0.114

0.270

LOG_FIRM_AGEt−1

88,248

2.656

0.776

1.609

2.079

2.639

3.258

3.714

Other variables

CPAO_IND_MEANt−1

88,237

0.094

0.073

0.030

0.039

0.077

0.123

0.172

LOG_BOGt

67,175

4.435

0.100

4.304

4.369

4.443

4.500

4.554

OPAQUEt

84,103

0.485

0.625

0.119

0.199

0.340

0.573

0.935

  1. This table reports the descriptive statistics for stock price crash risk measures, real estate measure, and other control variables used in our analysis. The sample covers 88,248 US public firm-year observations from CRSP and Compustat database. Observations span from 1988 to 2019. All variables are defined and explained in detail in “Appendix B