The Single Market Project of the European Commission was supposed to change the financial service industry markedly. We 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...

The Single Market Project of the European Commission was supposed to change the financial service industry markedly. We 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...

The Single Market project of the European Commission was supposed to foster productivity growth in the financial service industry. We assess its consequences on productivity development in the German insurance industry, one of the largest insurance markets within the European Union, by applying...

The purpose of this study is to measure efficiency and economies of scale in the Austrian and German health insurance industry. These are important aspects of the competitiveness of the Austrian insurance companies in the light of the liberalization and opening of the insurance markets in the...

The purpose of this study is to measure technical efficiency and economies of scale and scope in the German insurance industry. These are important aspects of the competitiveness of the German insurance companies in the light of the liberalization and opening of the insurance markets in the...