ÍNDICE DE BASILÉIA NO BRASIL: BANCOS PÚBLICOS X PRIVADOS

The article aims at verifying if the Basel Index of national private and public banks has a different demeanor whether the equity control in banks is private or state. The work uses the non-parametric statistic test by Mann-Whitney as methodology in order to explain this matter. Through this test, it was verified if the Basel Index that corresponds to the type of (public or private) banks’ equity control would be a differentiation factor, i.e. if there is a significant difference between the median value of public and private bank indexes in the period between 2001 and 2006. The empiric results revealed it is not possible to reject the hypothesis that the median Basel index of public banks is equivalent to the one in private banks