Purpose This study investigated the impact of corporate ownership structure on agency costs in the insurance industry …. Design/methodology/approach The study sample included 23 insurance companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from … determinants of agency costs from a frontier market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a focus on the insurance …

Mutual insurance companies and stock insurance companies are different forms of organized risk sharing: policyholders … necessary for a stock insurer to offer insurance at a fair premium, but not for a mutual. In the presence of an owner …