This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

mechanisms and capital regulations are the determinants of the bank performance …

We investigate the effects of bank control over borrower firms whether by representation on boards of directors or by … the holding of shares through bank asset management divisions. Using a large sample of syndicated loans, we find that … banks are more likely to act as lead arrangers in loans when they exert some control over the borrower firm. Bank …

stakes or institutional holdings. We investigate the effects of these bank-firm governance links on the global syndicated … the endogeneity of the bank-firm governance link. Our findings suggest that the benefits of bank involvement in firms …

SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though different bank ownership types apply different …

We empirically examine whether bank lending corruption is influenced by the ownership structure of banks, a country … curtail bank lending corruption if induced by family-controlled ownership, but not if induced by state-controlled ownership …