With the knowledge that we are living in dynamic time, the purpose of this introductory chapter is to depict a picture of the European life insurance market position and structure and to discuss its size, main features and most important factors, as well as the potential and development...

This paper provides cross-country evidence on the association between soundness and competition in the life insurance industry, where competition is measured by the Boone indicator. We analyze 10 European Union (EU) life insurance markets over the post-deregulation period 1999–2011. The...

This paper provides evidence of the role that financial market development and institutional quality play in the integration of European Union (EU) life insurance markets. It analyzes ten EU life insurance markets over a seventeen-year sample period. The meta-technology cost/revenue efficiency...

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