Hi Neha,
             I think the choice of whether to integrate a dummy variable or not depends on the objective of your research. What are you searching for?. Have your companies been randomly selected(then a GLS with  random effect is feasible) or constituted firms within a confined region: which you all choose(then a GLS with Fixed effect is feasible). From results of the Hausman  test, estimates by OLS are efficient but not consistent: indicating the absence of endogeneity and vailidity of a GLS with Random effect. I can't really be of help untill I understand the essence of integrating a dummy variable in your research objective.


From: Neha Kalra <nehakalra56@yahoo.co.in>
To: gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 4:01 PM
Subject: [Gretl-users] panel regression result interpretation

Hello to all Gretl users, i need help regarding to panel regression that i m running on the data of 49 companies over 5 years.. disclosure score have been assigned to each company is my dependent variable and i m seeing relation of this with diffrent variable like assets, debt to eqity ratio, working capital etc....
I have run a random effect model without dummies... following is the result of regression..
: Random-effects (GLS), using 245 observations
Included 49 cross-sectional units
Time-series length = 5
Dependent variable: Disclosurescore
 
 
Coefficient
Std. Error
t-ratio
p-value
 
const
54.6399
2.44263
22.3693
<0.00001
***
Income
0.000300548
0.000284884
1.0550
0.29251
 
Assets
2.47402e-05
0.000143089
0.1729
0.86288
 
ROCE
0.339813
0.136887
2.4824
0.01374
**
RONW
-0.305412
0.101727
-3.0023
0.00297
***
Debttoequityrat
-2.91992e-05
0.000943001
-0.0310
0.97532
 
PBITNetofP_E_Av
-0.275439
0.0929244
-2.9641
0.00335
***
Profitaftertax
0.000338873
0.00199357
0.1700
0.86517
 
 
Mean dependent var
 53.76539
 
S.D. dependent var
 14.85426
Sum squared resid
 48314.62
 
S.E. of regression
 14.24790
Log-likelihood
-994.9583
 
Akaike criterion
 2005.917
Schwarz criterion
 2033.927
 
Hannan-Quinn
 2017.196
 
 
            'Within' variance = 60.0887
            'Between' variance = 146.644
            theta used for quasi-demeaning = 0.713727
Breusch-Pagan test -
 Null hypothesis: Variance of the unit-specific error = 0
 Asymptotic test statistic: Chi-square(1) = 193.78
 with p-value = 4.75747e-044
 
Hausman test -
 Null hypothesis: GLS estimates are consistent
 Asymptotic test statistic: Chi-square(7) = 11.5898
 with p-value = 0.114882
 
 
now i dont knw that whether i have to use interpret these beta coefficients as any other variable or else & whether to use dummy variable or not...
I m also attaching with ths mail my data file in gretl..
Plz anyone help ..
Thanks in advance

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