of industries, such as telecom, information services, insurance and electronics, and show how supply and demand are not …

the South African non-life insurance market in a three-stage analysis. Design/methodology/approach Using annual firm level … data on 80 non-life insurance companies from 2007 to 2012, the authors first employ the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA …) to estimate cost and profit efficiency scores. In the second stage, the authors measure insurance market competition …

compliance mission to detect fraud in crop insurance, using corn as the crop studied and percentage of acres harvested as the key …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the management of consumer insurance fraud in the US property … defining and measuring consumer insurance fraud, then models the system of factors now in place in redress. Findings – Little … agreement was found for a common definition of consumer insurance fraud and this was explained in part due to the …

Purpose – Insurance fraud as a global economic problem threatens the financial strength of insurers and threatens the … survival of the insurance institution. The purpose of this paper is to explore the magnitude of the problem including the ….e. insurance contract design and auditing and the perception of fraud by customers in the insurance market. A survey is conducted …

refers to the amount of an actual loss compared to the premium level) and insurance coverage on customer acceptance of … insurance claim frauds, based on Adams’ equity theory. Customer perceptions of insurance frauds have been studied in recent …) × 2 insurance coverage (the loss is covered or not covered by the insurance policy) experimental design in a claim …

insurance companies in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Data on 36 life and non-life insurance companies from 2007 to 2011 are … relevance of IC for management of insurance companies in Ghana and other emerging insurance markets in Africa. Originality …/value This appears to be the first study to examine the impact of IC on profitability of a developing insurance market in Africa.  …

insurance-specific tasks, ERP systems and their data need to be considered in a sector-specific context with the need for …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess readiness of Iranian micro‐finance institutes (MFIs) to perform micro‐insurance …