Table 7 reports the results of quantile regressions for our pooled sample of 48 countries. Panel A analyzes the effect of creditor
rights while Panel B analyzes the effects of the four components of the creditor rights index. The long-term debt ratio is the
dependent variable in both panels. We report regression results for four of the selected leverage quantiles from 0.2 to 0.8. Panel A
shows that the estimated coefficients on the creditor rights index are negative at all reported quantiles. More importantly,
these coefficients become more negative as we move from low to high quantiles. While the creditor rights coefficient is rather
small (at −0.003) at a low leverage quantile of 0.2, it is considerably larger in absolute value (at −0.024) at a high leverage
quantile of 0.8, which suggests that a one-unit increase in the creditor rights index is associated with a decrease in the long-term
debt ratio of more than 2% at high leverage levels. The difference in the coefficients on Creditor Rights between the two quantiles is statistically significant at the 1% level.