Concentration in the U.S. insurance industry's market shares and ownership, coupled with a network interlocking …

Purpose This study investigated the impact of corporate ownership structure on agency costs in the insurance industry …. Design/methodology/approach The study sample included 23 insurance companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from … determinants of agency costs from a frontier market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on the insurance …

and, specifically, on the insurance companies as hospital dominant shareholders with respect to other types of …. Specifically, this paper analyses empirically the effects of insurance companies as controlling shareholders on the financial … insurance companies as controlling shareholders are less profitable and have a lower operating margin than do those controlled …

The state statutes that regulate the organization of insurance companies in the United States define a “mutual” company … assets. The courts – and the insurance companies themselves – have often been reluctant to accept this argument but have had …

This paper compares board determinants of publicly-traded and privately-owned property-liability insurance firms and … constraints on board structure of insurance firms, we find strong evidence that both public and private insurance firms …-power hypothesis for public insurance firms and evidence in support of the scope-of-operation hypothesis and the managerial …

the Netherlands. Our within country analysis generates two key results. First, the role of investor protections emphasized …

, insurers, government policy makers, practitioners, shareholders and consumers of insurance products by raising their awareness …