It is well known that the overall insurance sector in India has been undergoing a series of reforms from time to time … collected from the Insurance Regulatory Authority of India (IRDA) Annual Reports. The sample size for this study is twelve … determine the efficiency of the non-life sector and the insurers using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The empirical research …

The aim of the present paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the Indian general insurance companies and to find out … the reason for their inefficiency. The paper intends to rank these companies on the basis of their efficiency. 12 general … is based on secondary data collected from annual reports of insurers and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority …

Many prior studies on Indian banking efficiency have typically regressed non-parametric estimates of production … efficiency on environmental variables in a two-stage process. However, Simar and Wilson (2007) have demonstrated that the studies … efficiency. Using the data envelopment analysis bootstrap procedure suggested by these authors, for the first time, we analyse …

the impact of ownership of banks in India. The public and private sector banks were evaluated under homogeneous and … increasing the efficiency of banks. Due to the ownership, the public sector banks experienced more input losses as compared to … heterogeneous environments. The results reveal that the heterogeneous environment (ownership) played a significant role in …

Using state-of-the-art frontier efficiency methodologies, we study the efficiency and productivity of Swiss insurance … insurance sector. We find that productivity and efficiency in the Swiss insurance market have improved for the property … insurance business has a positive impact on insurer efficiency. We also illustrate the importance of analyzing nonlinear and …

efficiency and productivity measurement in insurance …The objective of this paper is to discuss the use of modern frontier efficiency analysis to analyze firm performance in … the insurance industry. The objective is to provide the foundations for insurance economists to use in adapting their …

first English language study in the literature to address the efficiency issue of the Chinese insurance sector, and presents …ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. China's insurance market - development issues -- ch. 3. Review of efficiency studies in … the insurance sector -- ch. 4. Efficiency concepts and DEA measures -- ch. 5. DEA applications to insurance companies in …