The determinants of steel industry performance in China - Dataset

This dataset is collected for investigating the determinants of steel industry performance in China. Using the panel data of 26 listed companies for the period 2007 to 2017, along with various estimators, such as the firm’s stock price, management quality, long term development strategy and external economic environment. In addition, the data include 8 financial indexes of the 26 companies for the period 2007 to 2017. These financial data were collected manually or calculated based on the balance sheet, income statement sheet, and cash flow sheet of the sample firms’ quarterly financial reports, which are downloadable from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange websites. Meanwhile, other macro-economic level data were collected from the Chinese Mysteel organization and Chinese Wind database.

本数据集旨在探究中国钢铁行业经营绩效的决定因素。本研究采用2007年至2017年26家上市企业的面板数据，并结合多种估计方法，所考察的变量涵盖企业股价、管理层质量、长期发展战略以及外部经济环境等维度。此外，该数据集还包含2007年至2017年间上述26家企业的8项财务指标。上述财务数据或通过手动采集获取，或根据样本企业季度财务报告中的资产负债表、利润表及现金流量表计算所得，该类季度报告可从上海证券交易所与深圳证券交易所官网下载。与此同时，其余宏观经济层面的数据取自中国我的钢铁网（Mysteel）与万得（Wind）数据库。