The results in Tables 3 and 4 provide strong support for the agency hypothesis, though
the traditional variables, ROE and Sales, do not perform as well as before. For the regressions
with the MB average salary, ROE has a positive but non-significant coefficient while Sales is
positive and significant in half of the equations but negative and significant in the other half of
the equations. The bank influence variable however, has a negative and significant coefficient in
all four equations in which it is included. As expected, the more highly concentrated ownership
categories 3-5 have negative coefficients in all but one case and many of the coefficients are
significant. All of the ownership dummies are negative as expected and all are statistically
significant.