This paper employs a stochastic frontier production function to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) and examines the determinants of frontier technological progress, technical efficiency, and TFP growth across 262 prefectural and higher level cities in China for 2001-2010. The econometric...

Efficiency and productivity measurement in the insurance industry has attracted great interest from academicians, practitioners, financial market analysts, insurance regulators, and researchers; however, the near absence of empirical work on the productivity changes of the life insurance...