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Does higher capital maintenance drive up banks cost of equity? Evidence from Bangladesh

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  • Md Shah Naoaj
  • Mir Md Moyazzem Hosen

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This paper assesses whether the higher capital maintenance drives up banks cost of equity. We investigate the hypothesis using fixed effect panel estimation with the data from a sample of 28 publicly listed commercial banks over the 2013 to 2019 periods. We find a significant negative relationship between banks capital and cost of equity. Empirically our baseline estimates entail that a 10 percent increase in capital would reduce the cost of equity by 4.39 percent.

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  • Md Shah Naoaj & Mir Md Moyazzem Hosen, 2023. "Does higher capital maintenance drive up banks cost of equity? Evidence from Bangladesh," Papers 2302.02762, arXiv.org.
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