In this subsection, we evaluate whether our evidence on the link between creditor protection and financial leverage persists
when we re-estimate our main regression using alternative samples and alternative dependent variables. We also address
potential omitted variables bias. To preview, the results reported in Tables 3 and 4 lend additional support to H1, which predicts
that creditor rights load negatively on financial leverage. We use Model 4 in Table 2 as our baseline regression in these sensitivity
tests.