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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the variables used

From: Empirical study on relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in Korea

Variables

Obs

Mean

Std. Errors

Min

Max

EDS

658

22.570

17.998

1.550

85.271

SDS

658

33.814

17.715

3.125

80.702

GDS

658

48.779

8.353

33.929

71.429

ROE

658

6.726

17.999

-198.100

73.650

MBR

658

1.204

0.569

0.426

5.473

Stock Return

658

0.112

0.761

-1.000

14.034

Leverage

658

0.437

0.193

0.049

0.981

Log (Asset size)

658

28.564

1.485

23.492

32.731

  1. The variables are EDS environmental disclosure score, SDS social disclosure score, GDS governance disclosure score, ROE return on equity, MBR market-to-book ratio implying Tobin’s q, Stock Return annual stock market return, Leverage leverage ratio as proxy for risk, Log (Asset size) log value of asset size
  2. Data source: Bloomberg