Excessive risk-taking could spell doom for the financial market and the economy as a whole as evidenced by the recent global financial crisis of 2007/08. In this study, we document the impact of corporate governance on bank risk-taking behaviour whilst accommodating the moderating effect of forms of ownership on the relationship in a regulated environment as banks ...

This paper finds, consistent with Lopes and de Alencar (2010), that the strength of association between corporate information disclosure and cost of capital depends on the corporate disclosure environment. This paper finds that in an environment where disclosure requirement is not rich, the higher variation from the disclosure practices of firms leads to significan...