“…System-GMM reduces the effect of high persistence of corporate governance variables thereby improving the power of estimations (Blundell & Bond, 1998;Nguyen, et al, 2015). In addition, system-GMM appears to be the best-performing estimator for the data which is characterized by moderate length of time, low within firm variations in corporate governance variables, possibility of fixed effects driven dependent variable, some variables are endogenous and a dynamic relationship exists between variables (Filatotchev et al, 2013;Nguyen, et al, 2015;Zhou et al, 2014).…”