Bank Ownership and Governance Quality in Four Post-Crisis Asian Economies

This paper analyzes recent corporate governance structures and the performance of 59 banks in four Asian economies heavily impacted by the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.

It has been found that banks with concentrated control in the hands of family or the state - unlike widely-held or foreigner-controlled banks - tend to have more western-style boards and other governance structures. The authors find no significant relationship between bank performance or efficiency and governance structures, although they do find that relationship in a few sub-samples.

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