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.
| Variable | Full sample | Chinese-funded | Foreign-funded |
| | (1) | (2) | (3) | L.sol | 0.044 | 0.023 | 0.040 | | (91.698) | (49.630) | (50.676) | e-prodiv | 3.106 | 7.287 | −4.455 | | (1.707) | (4.983) | (−3.383) | Size | 3.298 | 2.031 | 0.766 | | (9.729) | (7.956) | (0.527) | Age | −12.480 | −10.778 | −9.358 | | (−11.148) | (−24.671) | (−5.937) | Payrate | 1.914 | 4.752 | 0.518 | | (8.543) | (4.523) | (0.872) | Rein | 15.308 | 10.312 | 40.270 | | (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 | −119.584 | 146.557 | | (−0.936) | (−9.009) | (7.741) | Constant | 6.341 | 17.712 | 10.690 | | (2.005) | (5.397) | (2.784) | N | 268 | 178 | 98 | AR (2) test | (0.531) | (0.358) | (0.696) | Sargan test | (0.204) | (0.368) | (0.949) |
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Note. ∗∗∗ means , ∗∗ means , and ∗ means . |