Data for: Corporate Governance, Home Country Governance, and MNE CSR: Evidence from Ghana
Description
This dataset is related to a sample of 360 firm-year observations pertaining to 44 subsidiaries of foreign MNEs operating in Ghana from 2010 to 2018. It includes data on corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditure, corporate governance, and financial information of the sample firms, retrieved from their annual reports. Additionally, the dataset contains data on the home country of these MNEs from various sources, including 1) national governance of the home country, gathered from the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) dataset, 2) national competitiveness, quality of infrastructure, and quality of financial system in the home country, obtained from Global Competitiveness Report, and 3) gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and GDP per capita growth of the home country, obtained from the World Bank. The industry classification for the subsidiary is obtained from the Refinitiv business classification (TRBC) available in Eikon. The dataset is composed of the following files: (1) reg_data.dta: provides all input data for all variables used in the analyses. (2) reg_code.do: contains STATA codes for all the analyses. (3) files contained in a folder named “output”: includes all the output from the statistical analyses using STATA. (4) replicable_guide.docx: outlined the methodology used in gathering and analyzing the data.