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Assessing the efficiency of an insurance provider : a measurement error approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507834
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Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider - A Measurement Error Approach
Jametti, Mario; von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315676
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Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider - A Measurement Error Approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - CESifo - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181391
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Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider—A Measurement Error Approach
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas - In: The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 30 (2005) 1, pp. 15-34
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the public … insurance providers are about 20% more cost efficient than their private counterparts. Copyright The Geneva Association 2005 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005722862
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Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider - a Measurement Error Approach
Jametti, Mario - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the public … insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786077
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Agency Costs in Law-Firm Selection : Are Companies Under-Spending on Counsel?
de Fontenay</!>, Elisabeth - 2016
A growing body of literature examines whether corporate clients derive sufficient value from the law firms that they engage. Yet little attention has been paid to whether clients optimally select among law firms in the first place. One entry-point is to identify discrepancies in the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986994
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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions
Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013
This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560011
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Building a career : labour practices and cluster reproduction in Dutch architectural design
Kloosterman, Robert Christian - In: Regional studies 44 (2010) 7, pp. 859-871
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003993274
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State intervention on the market for natural damage insurance in Europe
Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
In this paper we briefly summarise the results of our studies of the property insurance market in 5 countries, Britain …, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. We then draw conclusions, how the market for insurance against natural disasters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511057
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Audit Markets, Fees and Production : Towards an Integrated View of Empirical Audit Research
Causholli, Monika - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on audit markets, fees and production. We present a model of the components that determine audit fees and production [hours]. We observe that, overall, knowledge is concentrated on certain aspects of the model and it is not well-integrated. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093819