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 …

establish an accurate risk-return ratio. The efficiency of banks involved in the shipping industry is particularly important … shipping companies. This paper presents an effort to assess the shipping banks’ efficiency, and the determination of those … factors which affect their technical efficiency, through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis. The results of this …

This study aimed to test five fundamental factors (growth, profitability, leverage, liquidity, and efficiency) and two … industries. Earning per share was the dominant influence variable in six industries, where profitability factors in farming …

success? Focusing on the Big Bang’s stated objectives of promoting profitability and efficiency, this study examines the … profitability and efficiency declines on the whole, and the main targets of the deregulation, the big city, trust and long …-term credit banks, exhibit statistically significantly lower profitability and efficiency than their smaller counterparts. …

deals with the integration between ecological efficiency and product value enhancement. The results of these studies lead to …