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Table 2 Construction of financial development index with principal components

From: Growth, bank credit, and inflation in Mexico: evidence from an ARDL-bounds testing approach

(a) Tests for factorability

 Determinant of the matrix of correlation

0.64

 Bartlett’s test for sphericity

17.896

(0.000)*

 Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure

0.628

Number

Value

Difference

Proportion

Cumulative value

Cumulative proportion

(b) Principal component analysis

 Eigenvalues: (sum = 3, average = 1)

  1

1.779808

1.058529

0.5933

1.779808

0.5933

  2

0.721279

0.222366

0.2404

2.501087

0.8337

  3

0.498913

0.1663

3.000000

1.0000

Variable

PCA 1

PCA 2

PCA 3

 Eigenvectors

  Private credit, PC

0.592926

−0.477843

−0.779316

  Bank assets, BA

0.517591

0.842761

0.255323

  Liquid liabilities, LL

0.616878

−0.582972

0.572257

  1. Source: authors’ calculation
  2. * Statistically significant at 1 % level
  3. P value is in parentheses