efficiency and in technology gap of European Union (EU) insurance markets. We evaluate 10 EU life insurance markets over the … period 1998-2014. Results show convergence in cost/revenue efficiency among major EU life insurance markets during the sample … global financial crisis has led to a slowdown in the progress of integration and convergence in efficiency and technology gap …

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

A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … research is to analyze the relationship between efficiency, measured by the cost function using the stochastic frontier …

reject one of these approaches. The unified formulation allows us to develop useful related concepts of efficiency and …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …