of sickness by age, gender, education and employment status. Employed have a significantly better health record than the … health surveys, complemented by administrative data (morbidity rates of the employed and unemployed) and data from the …

provide a first attempt to assess its consequences on the insurance industry in Germany, the largest insurance market within … the European Union. For this purpose we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis on a panel of German insurance companies and …

productivity for the insurance industry. As an example we construct efficiency frontiers for the years 1992 through 1996 for the … Austrian insurance industry using a Data Envelopment Analysis. The results provide yardsticks for efficiency comparisons from a …

Farmers may use financial market instruments to hedge price risks. Moreover, various types of insurance products are on … the market to protect against production losses. An insurance that covers losses of both input and output prices was … recently introduced in the USA. We develop this concept further by proposing a prototype of an index-based margin insurance …

There are marked differences in health conditions of the Austrian population by socioeconomic status, gender, age … largely less skilled migrants but also of providing adequate health services not only for the ageing Austrian population but …