Table 3. The relationship between the future earnings of the shipping industry and the shipbuilding industry

E a r n i n g s t + 1 = α 0 + β 1 E a r n i n g s t + ε t
Variables Shipping industry Shipbuilding industry
Coefficient (t-value) Coefficient (t-value)
Constant –2,041.7 (-0.644) 406.7 (0.334)
β 0.196 (1.879)* 0.793 (10.072)***
Adj R2 0.038* 0.576***
F-Statistics 3.528 101.442
p <0.10,
p <0.05,
p <0.01.
Earnings, earnings per share; β , earnings persistence coefficients.