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Table 5 Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the discount-rate in Switzerland (1892–1914)

From: Regulated free banking in Switzerland (1881–1907)

Period:

Free banking

SNB

Unregulated free banking

Regulated free banking

SNB

Sample:

January 1892–May 1907

June 1907–June 1914

January 1875–March 1881

April 1881–May 1907

June 1907–June 1914

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Standard deviation

0.836

0.751

na.

0.836

0.751

Levene test

6.08**

6.08**

  1. Geneva discount rate
  2. The discount rate is at a weekly frequency and refers to the data in Geneva. The standard deviation across the sample with T observations between the beginning of January 1875 and the end of June 1914 equals 0.786. The Levene test is based on an analysis of variance (ANOVA) across G groups of the absolute difference from the mean (Levene, 1960). The test statistic is F-distributed with the number of degrees of freedom in the numerator equal to G, and \(T-G\) in the denominator. The null hypothesis is that the subgroup variances are equal. A rejection at the 10% level is marked by *, at the 5% level by **, and at the 1% level by ***