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 … insurance markets. Since the Boone indicator measures competition based on the reallocation of profits from inefficient insurers …

integration of European Union (EU) life insurance markets. It analyzes ten EU life insurance markets over a seventeen-year sample … market development and institutional quality enhance cost performance and integration of EU life insurance markets. Results … also show that in countries where bancassurance is the main life insurance distribution channel, banking sector development …

of the European life insurance market position and structure and to discuss its size, main features and most important … development of the European life insurance sector is also considered. Finally, the new risks and challenges for life insurance …

protection, restructure financial capital, stabilize insurance and pension markets, and improve solvency. The Solvency II … framework introduced in the European Union applied these principles to insurance companies. This study attempts to predict the … solvency of an insurer within a set of European insurers. The dataset consists of 29 insurance groups that operate across the …