Most important, we confirm the aggregate result for all tercile
subgroups, i.e., all reported differences in default prediction accuracy
are positive and economically significant. We also report zstatistics
from a bootstrap analysis. In line with Hypothesis H2a
we find that business credit information is significantly more valuable
for firms with limited liability since the difference in accuracy ratio with and without business credit information is almost six
percentage points higher for these firms (26.26 vs. 20.65). The default
risk of firms with unlimited liability largely depends on its
owner’s willingness and ability to let the firm survive, creating
more ambiguity about the likelihood of default.