Our study analyses the extent of integration of the EU market for life and non-life insurance. The main integration … even less advanced for life than for non-life insurance and that mergers and acquisitions are the dominant strategy to … access a foreign market. Besides summarising the liberalisation history of the European insurance sector and discussing …

used throughout the literature and relate these to productivity growth. Moreover, where possible, the indicators and … productivity growth are calculated at both the firm and industry level. This enables us to investigate differences in competition … and in its relation with productivity for both aggregation levels. Our results indicate that contemporaneous competition …

This study analyzes the total factor productivity of 1,067 Japanese manufacturing firms. In production estimation, we … employ the directional distance function and Luenberger productivity indicator. Research and development strategy survey data … are used to analyze the determinant factors related to improvements in innovation and productivity. Our results indicate …

This paper applied the Malmquist Productivity Index in order to estimate total factor productivity growth and its … reforms on the productivity growth of paper and paper products industry was negative. It was evident in the study that the … factor for productivity change in Indian paper and paper products industry. Among similar trends were observed at the sub …

The purpose of this paper was to study the productivity where renewable energy resources and non-renewable resources … the total factor productivity of Bioeconomy for the generation of electricity from plants using sugarcane bagasse (biomass …) as a renewable resource and petroleum. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index were used to measure …

purchase price can be presented as the increase in the willingness to pay for insurance or the willingness to pay for consumer … credit. The optimal consumer decision represents the trade-off between the propensity to search for beneficial insurance or … consumer credit, and marginal savings on insurance policy or consumer credit. Under price dispersion the indirect utility …

This paper provides empirical evidence of advantageous selection in insurance markets. By using a novel insurance … inability to distinguish moral hazard from selection. In the US market for area yield crop insurance, payouts are based on … average county yields. Moreover, area yield insurance is only offered in counties where no farmer is large enough to affect …

agricultural insurance program on household level production, borrowing, and saving. The empirical strategy includes both … difference-in-difference and triple difference estimations. I find that, first, introducing insurance increases the production … area of insured crops by around 20% and decreases production diversification; second, provision of insurance raises the …