This article examines the interrelations among five ownership and board characteristics in a sample of 260 banks and Savings-and-Loan Holding Companies (SLHCs). These governance characteristics, designed to reduce agency problems between shareholders and managers are insider ownership,...

Using a sample of publicly traded banks from 56 countries over the 2000-2017 period, we examine the impact of government ownership on banks’ cost of equity. We find that banks with a larger share of government ownership suffer a higher cost of equity. Our empirical analyses also suggest that...