This study is to analyze the impact of ownership concentration and of various types of shareholders on the risk-taking behavior of Vietnamese joint-stock commercial banks using a panel data of the period 2010-2017. | Ownership structure and bank risk-taking the case of Vietnam International Journal of Management Volume 11 Issue 03 March 2020 pp. 427-434. Article ID IJM_11_03_045 Available online at http ijm JType IJM amp VType 11 amp IType 3 Journal Impact Factor 2020 Calculated by GISI ISSN Print 0976-6502 and ISSN Online 0976-6510 IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE AND BANK RISK- TAKING THE CASE OF VIETNAM Long Hau LE College of Economics Can Tho University Vietnam Postal Address College of Economics Can Tho University Campus II 3 2 street Ninh Kieu district Can Tho city 900000 Vietnam . Thanh Hoang PHAM College of Economics Can Tho University Vietnam Tan Nghiem LE College of Economics Can Tho University Vietnam Corresponding Author ABSTRACT This study is to analyze the impact of ownership concentration and of various types of shareholders on the risk-taking behavior of Vietnamese joint-stock commercial banks using a panel data of the period 2010-2017. In line with the literature results from a panel regression with fixed effects show that as the ownership concentration increases the risk-taking behavior of the bank also increases. With regard to the impact of various types of shareholders the results show that the institutional and foreign shareholders ownership can reduce the bank risk-taking behavior. CEO and individual shareholder ownership also seem to have a negative impact on the bank risk-taking behavior however the statistical test does not support for this relation. Findings from this study are supported by the real situation of the Vietnamese economy. From these results a number of policy recommendations are put forward. Keywords Bank shareholders Risk-taking behavior Ownership concentration Vietnam. JEL Classifications G21 G38 G18 Cite this Article Long Hau LE Thanh Hoang PHAM and Tan Nghiem LE Ownership Structure and Bank Risk-Taking The Case of Vietnam International Journal of Management 11 3
