Dear Statalist,
I am doing a research about microfinance institutions and the factors that influence their performance (inflation, GDPpc, credit by commercial banks...). I have a dataset of 88 institutions in 6 countries (region of South Asia) and for the period 2011-2015. Since I have a short panel, I am including time fixed effects and year fixed effects as dummies as suggested by my professor.
I would like to know hot to interpret the results if, for example, inflation was significant in the first regression, not significant in the second and third regressions and significant again in the last regression including both dummies. Or, if credit by banks was significant in the first two regressions but not in the last two regressions. Any suggestions on how could I interpret my results?
Thank you very much!
I am doing a research about microfinance institutions and the factors that influence their performance (inflation, GDPpc, credit by commercial banks...). I have a dataset of 88 institutions in 6 countries (region of South Asia) and for the period 2011-2015. Since I have a short panel, I am including time fixed effects and year fixed effects as dummies as suggested by my professor.
Code:
reg performance indepvar1 indepvar2, robust
reg performance indepvar1 indepvar2 i.Country, robust
reg performance indepvar1 indepvar2 i.Year, robust
reg performance indepvar1 indepvar2 i.Country i.Year, robust
I would like to know hot to interpret the results if, for example, inflation was significant in the first regression, not significant in the second and third regressions and significant again in the last regression including both dummies. Or, if credit by banks was significant in the first two regressions but not in the last two regressions. Any suggestions on how could I interpret my results?
Thank you very much!
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