Dependent Variable Performance of firm i as measured by:

ROA (%)

Return on assets = net income/total assets

ROE (%)

Return on equity = net income/total equity

TOBIN’S Q

Market value of a company divided by its assets’ replacement cost

Independent variables

CSR_dummy

Dummy variable equals to 1 for companies which report CSR activities and 0 otherwise

Size

The natural logarithm of total assets

Leverage

Total debt/total assets

Sales annual growth (%)

sales2017/sales2016

Year

The examined year

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