Question: Considering the table below where the variable mktval is market value of the firm, profmarg is profit as a percentage of sales, ceoten is years
Considering the table below where the variablemktvalis market value of the firm,profmargis profit as a percentage of sales,ceotenis years as CEO (chief executive officer) with the current company, andcomtenis total years with the company.
- (a)Comment on the effect ofprofmargon CEO salary in model (2) and (3).
- (b)Hasmktvala significant effect in model (3)? Explain.
- (c)Interpret the coefficients onceotenandcomten. Are these explanatory variables statistically significant?
- (d)Compute the 95% confidence interval for the coefficient ofprofmargin model (2).

Dependent Variable: log(salary) Independent Variables (2) (3) log(sales) .224 158 188 (.027) (.040) 1040) logimkival) .112 .100 (.050) (.049) profmarg -.0023 -.0022 (.0022) (0021) cepten 0171 (0055) counten -.0092 (0033) intercept 4.94 4.62 4.57 (0.20) 10.25) (0.25) Observations 177 177 177 R-squared .281 304 .353
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