The National Education Information System (NEIS), initiated by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Korea, is an electronic system that manages diverse administrative and academic affairs of all the nation's schools and students through the Internet. In 2003, NEIS touched off a fierce conflict...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate coexistence of multiple distribution systems in property-casualty (P/C) insurance industry in the USA. Design/methodology/approach -Stochastic frontier analysis is used to measure cost and revenue efficiencies of P/C insurance companies...

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of regional as well as inter-regional organizations dealing with a wide range of political, economic, security, and social issues. On balance, material interests and the need for balance of power amongst the states and the regions are often abetted...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate coexistence of multiple distribution systems in property‐casualty (P/C) insurance industry in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – Stochastic frontier analysis is used to measure cost and revenue efficiencies of P/C insurance...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate interest rate sensitivity of the US property/liability (P/L) insurers stock returns using various return generating process models incorporating different interest rate changes such as actual interest rate changes, unexpected interest rate...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of Korean insurers that have adopted enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to improve their efficiency. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with several inputs and outputs to...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is two‐fold. The first purpose is to properly measure the level of US property and liability (P/L) insurers liquidity creation, applying the liquidity creation measure developed by Berger and Bouwman. The second purpose is to identify factors affecting P/L...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, this paper measures how much liquidity is transformed by the US life insurance industry for the sample period; and Second, this study tests the “risk absorption” hypothesis and “financial fragility-crowding out” hypothesis to...