Agostino, Mariarosaria; Leonida, Leone; Trivieri, Francesco - In: Applied Economics 37 (2005) 14, pp. 1615-1621
The hypothesis that ownership structure affects persistence of profits in the Italian banking industry is tested. The time-invariant components of ROA and ROE are regressed against ownership concentration and the fraction of shares held by the major shareholders. The results show that abnormal...