The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between ownership structures and cost of equity capital. Independent variables namely; family ownership, managerial ownership, institutional ownership, government ownership, and foreign ownership are used in this study. Also, cost of equity capital which is measured from CAPM model is used as a dependent variable. Furthermore, firm sizes and return on asset ratio are applied as control variables. The research methodology contains the descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship among factors. The results of this study reveal that family ownership is negatively associated with cost of equity capital. This result suggests that family shareholders have a strong power to influence company. This is because shareholders that come from the same family are likely to work as a team in order to enhance firm performance and have a better monitoring function which consequently reduce cost of equity capital of the firm. This study also finds that government ownership is also negatively associated with cost of equity capital. This result suggests that investors trust government and their monitoring process which are reducing in cost of equity capital. Apart from these, managerial ownership, institutional ownership and foreign ownership have no relationship with cost of equity. |
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