Barry, Thierno Amadou; Lepetit, Laetitia; Tarazi, Amine - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 35 (2011) 5, pp. 1327-1340
Using detailed ownership data for a sample of European commercial banks, we analyze the link between ownership structure and risk in both privately owned and publicly held banks. We consider five categories of shareholders that are specific to our dataset. We find that ownership structure is...