background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a … these factors into account, costs vary across providers because of differences in efficiency. Such differences offer clues … about good practice that can lead to improvements in the system as a whole. The role of efficiency is illustrated by …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

A numbers of studies focusing on the determinant of the insurance market efficiency haveincreased in the last decade …. In fact, many factors, like the CEO's power, can influence the efficiency in the insurance firm. The purpose of this … research is to analyze the relationship between efficiency, measured by the cost function using the stochastic frontier …

This study investigates whether the capital market values the efficiency of firms. After tracing stock returns and … efficiency changes of 399 listed insurance firms in 52 countries during the 2002-2008 period, the paper reports a positive and … statistically significant relationship between profit efficiency change and market adjusted stock returns. However, there is no …

This paper reviews the operational efficiency of the Nigeria insurance industry from a historical perspective. Our … that despite the long history of insurance industry in Nigeria, the sector's operational efficiency has remained sub … strategies to attain operational efficiency in the Nigerian insurance industry. -- insurance industry ; operational efficiency …

This study investigates whether the capital market values the efficiency of firms. After tracing stock returns and … efficiency changes of 399 listed insurance firms in 52 countries during the 2002-2008 period, the paper reports a positive and … statistically significant relationship between profit efficiency change and market adjusted stock returns. However, there is no …

We estimate economies of scale and scope as well as cost efficiency to explain the structure of the global reinsurance … high cost efficiency; small reinsurers exhibit superior efficiency only when they are specialized. The evidence is in line …

In an attempt to enrich the literature of the efficiency of financial services sector with holistic perspective, this … study aims to empirically investigate the input efficiency of banking and insurance sectors with further probe into Islamic … show that, on average, the allocative efficiency of the overall Islamic financial services sector has increased during the …

confront underwriting loss. The purpose of this paper is to assess underwriting efficiency of non-life insurance industry in … in India over a period of five years from 2011-12 to 2015-16. Findings: Underwriting efficiency of non-life insurance … on the VRS frontier. With regard to scale efficiency issues, four (21 per cent) to eight (42 per cent) companies have …