Following Cooper et al. (2008), a firm's asset growth rate (AG) for year t is defined as the percentage
change in total assets from fiscal year t−2 to fiscal year t−15
:
AGt = Total Assetst1−Total Assetst2
Total Assetst2
ð1Þ
Total assets is variable BAL9 in the PACAP and PACAP-CCER Databases, field 02999 (total assets) in
DataStream for Asian markets, and data item 6 in Compustat for the U.S. market. To compute asset growth
rate, we require a firm should not have zero or negative total assets in fiscal year t−2 and t−1. We further
winsorize asset growth rate at the top and bottom 1% in each year, for Asia and for the U.S. separately, to
control for the influence of outliers.
Panel B of Table 1 reports descriptive statistics of the asset growth rates across Asian and U.S. stock
markets. Japan has the lowest equal-weighted mean (median) annual asset growth rate of 8.40% (6.10%)
while Malaysia has the highest of 38.60% (22.70%). The average asset growth rate for the combined Asian
market is about 22.80%, relative to 26.30% for the U.S. market.
Following Cooper et al. (2008), a firm's asset growth rate (AG) for year t is defined as the percentagechange in total assets from fiscal year t−2 to fiscal year t−15:AGt = Total Assetst1−Total Assetst2Total Assetst2ð1ÞTotal assets is variable BAL9 in the PACAP and PACAP-CCER Databases, field 02999 (total assets) inDataStream for Asian markets, and data item 6 in Compustat for the U.S. market. To compute asset growthrate, we require a firm should not have zero or negative total assets in fiscal year t−2 and t−1. We furtherwinsorize asset growth rate at the top and bottom 1% in each year, for Asia and for the U.S. separately, tocontrol for the influence of outliers.Panel B of Table 1 reports descriptive statistics of the asset growth rates across Asian and U.S. stockmarkets. Japan has the lowest equal-weighted mean (median) annual asset growth rate of 8.40% (6.10%)while Malaysia has the highest of 38.60% (22.70%). The average asset growth rate for the combined Asianmarket is about 22.80%, relative to 26.30% for the U.S. market.
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