COMPARING CAPITAL MOBILITY ACROSS PROVINCIAL

AND NATIONAL BORDERS

by John Helliwell and Ross McKitrick

1998

ADDITIONAL EMPIRICAL RESULTS


Headings
NF NF - denotes Newfoundland included, 0 denotes Newfoundland excluded
GDP GDP denotes GDP enters regression; 0 denotes GDP not added to equation

Note: GDP entered in level and interaction with province dummy
FE 1 denotes one-way fixed effects, 2 denotes two-way fixed effects
p-valueprob-value for 1-tailed t-statistic on SUM

BOLD FACED results: Includes NF; Includes GDP

Panel Regressions
NF
GDP
FE
R2
Savings
DPxSavings
Sum
p-value
NF
0
2
0.480.266

(4.16)

-0.214

(2.92)

0.052

(1.29)

0.10
NF
0
1
0.470.295

(4.84)

-0.242

(3.43)

0.053

(1.35)

0.09
NF
GDP
2
0.500.213

(3.34)

-0.188

(2.59)

0.025

(0.63)

0.26
NF
GDP
1
0.500.246

(4.05)

-0.219

(3.13)

0.027

(0.68)

0.25
0
0
2
0.440.265

(4.47)

-0.227

(3.34)

0.038

(1.00)

0.16
0
0
1
0.440.294

(5.22)

-0.254

(3.90)

0.039

(1.05)

0.15
0
GDP
2
0.470.212

(3.61)

-0.200

(2.98)

0.011

(0.30)

0.38
0
GDP
1
0.460.244

(4.38)

-0.231

(3.58)

0.013

(0.35)

0.36

Feldstein-Horioka Regressions:

1961-1993
NF
GDP
R2
Savings
DPxSavings
Sum
p-value
NF
GDP
0.690.722

(3.74)

-0.695

(3.46)

0.027

(0.50)

0.31
NF
0
0.540.794

(4.49)

-0.863

(4.68)

-0.069

(1.31)

0.10
0
GDP
0.790.722

(5.26)

-0.670

(4.69)

0.053

(1.33)

0.10
0
0
0.630.794

(5.84)

-0.821

(5.77)

-0.027

(0.64)

0.26

1961-1971
NF
GDP
R2
Savings
DPxSavings
Sum
p-value
NF
GDP
0.690.670

(3.32)

-0.662

(3.12)

0.008

(0.13)

0.45
NF
0
0.520.724

(3.60)

-0.836

(3.96)

-0.112

(1.75)

0.05
0
GDP
0.810.670

(5.40)

-0.642

(4.92)

0.028

(0.70)

0.25
0
0
0.620.724

(5.12)

-0.792

(5.33)

-0.068

(1.48)

0.08

1983-1993
NF
GDP
R2
Savings
DPxSavings
Sum
p-value
NF
GDP
0.570.616

(4.14)

-0.575

(3.45)

0.041

(0.55)

0.30
NF
0
0.520.682

(5.00)

-0.693

(4.66)

-0.011

(0.18)

0.43
0
GDP
0.660.616

(4.90)

-0.520

(3.66)

0.096

(1.47)

0.08
0
0
0.610.682

(5.81)

-0.635

(4.91)

0.047

(0.88)

0.19


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