irregular cash flows of poor households, who have been excluded in the commercial insurance system for a variety of reasons … households. The most prominent forms of microinsurance are life insurance and health insurance (carried out as part of an overall … health care package that links the health insurance to a health facility), which have been designed to be responsive to the …

productivity for the insurance industry. As an example we construct efficiency frontiers for the years 1992 through 1996 for the … Austrian insurance industry using a Data Envelopment Analysis. The results provide yardsticks for efficiency comparisons from a …

policy intervention on the insurance industry. We first analyze the impact on the stock performances of 166 (re)insurers from …

settings. The method is illustrated using a multivariate panel of four accounting ratios for 28 large European insurance firms …