Research Article

Corporate Diversification, Ownership, and Solvency in China’s Property-Liability Insurance Companies

Table 4

The impact of business diversification (measured by entropy number) on solvency.

VariableFull sampleChinese-fundedForeign-funded

(1)(2)(3)
L.sol0.0440.0230.040
(91.698)(49.630)(50.676)
e-prodiv3.1067.287−4.455
(1.707)(4.983)(−3.383)
Size3.2982.0310.766
(9.729)(7.956)(0.527)
Age−12.480−10.778−9.358
(−11.148)(−24.671)(−5.937)
Payrate1.9144.7520.518
(8.543)(4.523)(0.872)
Rein15.30810.31240.270
(4.097)(3.881)(5.712)
ms−94.840−135.375−4,448.806
(−1.259)(−3.496)(−0.926)
Investrisk−3.044−1.277−8.836
(−2.820)(−3.688)(−1.290)
Gdpgrowth−25.524−119.584146.557
(−0.936)(−9.009)(7.741)
Constant6.34117.71210.690
(2.005)(5.397)(2.784)
N26817898
AR (2) test(0.531)(0.358)(0.696)
Sargan test(0.204)(0.368)(0.949)

Note. ∗∗∗ means , ∗∗ means , and means .