Fundamental changes in the market environment force insurance intermediaries to redefinetheir roles. This article … review of existingliterature concerning insurance intermediation, this article presents the results of 20in-depth interviews … customers of insurance brokers.The findings highlight four main functions insurance brokers are expected to fulfilfor their …

This paper analyzes price competition in the German motor insurance market since 1994 and looks for evidence to back up … in 1996–1999, the second in 2005–2006. In a first step, we analyze development of the German motor insurance market and … found in the marketing literature to the German motor insurance market is checked. In a third step, a comparison to …

the insurance industry, a topic of great interest in the academic literature during the last several years. In the first … step, we review 87 studies and put them into a joint evalu-ation of efficiency measurement in the field of insurance. In … technical and cost efficiency growth in international insurance markets from 2002 to 2006, with large differences across …

finds that the impact of a minimum solvency capital on insurance market competition needs further examination. Furthermore …, the economic justification for insurance market regulation needs to be evaluated in detail. …

insurance on risk-neutral pricing and shortfall risk. In general,these feedback mechanisms affect the contract’s payoff and …