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You are investing in the stock market. You are considering stocks of companies in three major industries: Mining, Manufa

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You are investing in the stock market. You are considering stocks
of companies in three major industries: Mining, Manufacturing and
Tech. While the industry of each stock is an independent variable,
the dependent variable is return (Return, measured in
percentage points) and an additional independent variable is the
market capitalisation of each stock (MarketCap, measured
in dollars). You would like to investigate how industry determines
the return while controlling for market capitalisation. The data
are given by
The dummies are defined as follows:
Run a regression model of Return on both
dummies and on MarketCap. Which of the following
interpretations are correct? Select ALL answers that apply.
Group of answer choices
We estimate that the expected Return is 2.42
percentage points higher for Manufacturing stocks compared to
Mining stocks holding MarketCap constant.
We estimate that the expected Return is 2.42
percentage points higher for Manufacturing stocks compared to Tech
stocks holding MarketCap constant.
We estimate that the expected Return is 2.26
percentage points lower for Mining stocks compared to Manufacturing
stocks holding MarketCap constant.
We estimate that the expected Return is 2.26
percentage points lower for Mining stocks compared to Tech stocks
holding MarketCap constant.
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