distribution channels. This paper aims to critically evaluate the liberalisation process of India's insurance sector and the impact … increasing foreign participation, we compare the liberalisation approach taken up by the BRICS countries for their own insurance … it has had on the sector, both life and non-life segments. As India is in the process of opening its insurance sector to …

India's insurance sector has been growing dynamically in the last couple of years. Despite the suite of reforms that … have been implemented to stoke the sector's growth, it still has a long way to go, as its share in the global insurance … market remains abysmally low. In this paper, we analyse the Indian insurance sector and trace its evolution and growth. We …

The German insurance market was liberalized in 1994 by the introduction of the "single passport" allowing European … insurers to operate throughout the entire European Union. The European directive put also an end to price and insurance … contract terms regulation. These measures were meant for removing the obstacles to competition within and between the insurance …

In this study, we focused on analysing and differentiating the determinants of conventional insurance and Takāful … conventional insurance and Takāful over the period 2005–2014. We applied fixed and random effect regression models to assess the … impact of macroeconomic and demographic factors on conventional insurance and Takāful demand. Income and financial sector …

deregulation and the succeeding changes on efficiency of the Japanese life insurance industry using a Stochastic Input Distance …Deregulation and the succeeding changes, such as forming group affiliation, demutualization, and new entry from foreign … countries, are widespread and worldwide phenomenon in the life insurance industry. This study examines impacts of the …

Insurance serves the dual role of savings and investment. Life insurance primarily is a tool to mitigate the financial … risk arising because of death of the insured. The capital pool arising from collection of life insurance premium is … around 3 billion are a prosperous market for life insurance business. All BRIC nations having liberalized their insurance …

We study how risk management through hedging impacts firms and competition among firms in the life insurance industry …

. Exploiting (a) the contractual-level data of automobile insurance, and (b) a unique institutional reform that gives more pricing …