The Single Market project of the European Commission was supposed to foster productivity growth in the financial service industry. We assess its consequences on productivity development in the German insurance industry, one of the largest insurance markets within the European Union, by applying...

The purpose of this study is to measure technical efficiency and economies of scale and scope in the German insurance industry. These are important aspects of the competitiveness of the German insurance companies in the light of the liberalization and opening of the insurance markets in the...

The purpose of this study is to measure changes in efficiency and productivity over time in the German insurance industry. These are important impacts of the liberalization and opening of the German insurance market. With the aid of the Data Envelopment Analysis an efficiency frontier has been...