insight into cost and profit efficiency levels of German life insurance firms for the period 1997-2005, and delivers …. (1997) we estimate cost and profit efficiency for three groups of life insurance firms differing in their distribution …

changes in technical cost and profit efficiency levels since the liberalization, as well as a measurement of technological … (Greene, 2005). Non-standard profit efficiency is derived in a second step following Kumbakhar (2006). According to our … mainly driven by substantial positive technological change. Technical cost efficiency and profit efficiency remained stable …

innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and profitability. Such business ventures, however, might be associated with huge … international R&D activities boost profitability. We employ a large data set of about 1300 firms from the German Community … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …