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Competition, Efficiency, and Soundness in European Life Insurance Markets

Cummins, J David - 2017

to efficient ones,our results suggest that efficiency is the mechanism through which competition contributes to insurer …

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Does efficiency promote competitiveness of the insurance industry?

Hui Shan Lee; Cheng, Fan Fah; Nasir, Annuar Md.; Nazrul … - In: Journal of business economics and management 19 (2018) 4, pp. 566-591

This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful … insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P … to estimating provisions for outstanding claims, as this factor is negatively influencing the efficiency of Takaful …

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Performance of the Life Insurance Industry Under Pressure : Efficiency, Competition and Consolidation

Bikker, Jacob Antoon - 2012

supervisory data set, this paper investigates competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance market by estimating unused … scale economies and measuring efficiency-market share dynamics during 1995-2010. Large unused scale economies exist for …

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Does competition improve public school efficiency? A spatial analysis

Misra, Kaustav; Grimes, Paul W.; Rogers, Kevin E. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1177-1190

efficiency, as measured by the proficiency rates on high-stakes examinations. It is anticipated that the current results will …

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A Generalized Knowledge Production Function

Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency …

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Does Competition Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency

Markiewicz, K.; Rose, N.L.; Wolfram, C. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2004

This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry … were for the most part unaffected by restructuring, experienced the smallest efficiency gains over the past decade …

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Measuring Competitiveness

Neary, J. Peter - 2006

This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real effective exchange rates, but differ from standard measures in...

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Subnational Competitiveness and National Performance : Analysis and Simulation for Indonesia

Tan, Khee Giap; Amri, Mulya - 2013

The stable growth of Indonesia’s economy over the past eight years has provided momentum for investment in the country. One of the approaches taken by the central government is to allow healthy competition between its provinces. The Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) responds positively to...

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Information effect of entry into credit ratings market: The case of insurers' ratings

Doherty, Neil A.; Kartasheva, Anastasia V.; Phillips, … - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 2, pp. 308-330

The paper analyzes the effect of competition between credit rating agencies (CRAs) on the information content of ratings. We show that a monopolistic CRA pools sellers into multiple rating classes and has partial market coverage. This provides an opportunity for market entry. The entrant designs...

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Harmful competition in insurance markets

De Feo, Giuseppe; Hindriks, Jean - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 213-226

There is a general presumption that competition is a good thing. In this paper we show that competition in the insurance markets can be bad and that adverse selection is in general worse under competition than under monopoly. The reason is that monopoly can exploit its market power to relax...

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