divesting firms have higher CARs. Research limitations/implications – The findings are consistent with insurance acquisitions … insurance managers. Originality/value – This is one of only a few papers that relate frontier efficiency to market values and is … the first paper to do this for the insurance industry. It is also one of only two existing papers that analyze the value …

Purpose – Recapitalization, mergers, and acquisitions are the most crucial issues confronting the Nigerian Insurance … insurance underwriters towards the recapitalization exercise in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Stratified sampling was … applied in segregating listed insurance companies on the Nigeria Stock Exchange into top‐, middle‐, and lower …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interface between the banking and insurance sectors. Using … capital market data, the paper aims to discover any significant equity returns around the announcement date of these bank‐insurance … compatible with the general banking philosophy of “fast growth within short‐term horizons.” Based on equity returns, the bank‐insurance …

insurance-specific tasks, ERP systems and their data need to be considered in a sector-specific context with the need for …

Purpose – Aims to address a number of issues related to the use of spectral analysis in the study of insurance cycles …. Design/methodology/approach – Spectral analysis has seldom been used in the study of insurance cycles. This may be due to the … insurance‐cycle research.  …