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and scope. We use detailed survey data of German property-liability insurance companies that allows us to construct … continuous measures of ERM quality. We find that ERM quality positively moderates the size-scale efficiency relationship, and we … find that ERM positively moderates the diversification-revenue scope efficiency relationship, indicating that ERM …
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This research uses an indirect methodology to examine the effects of health insurance mergers and acquisitions by … analyzing the impact of insurers' scale of operations and group affiliation status on benefits, costs, and efficiency from the … scrutiny and regulations, and inform the public debate over mergers and acquisitions in the health insurance industry. We find …
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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 …
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The purpose of this study is to measure changes in efficiency and productivity over time in the German insurance … industry. These are important impacts of the liberalization and opening of the German insurance market. With the aid of the … Data Envelopment Analysis an efficiency frontier has been constructed which is used as a yardstick of productive efficiency …
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technical efficiency for 154 German higher education institutions from 2001 through 2007. Our results suggest that comprehensive … and Scope ; Technical Efficiency ; Stochastic Frontier Analysis ; Input Distance Function …
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supervisory data set, this paper investigates competition and efficiency in the Dutch life insurance market by estimating unused …A well-performing life insurance industry benefits consumers, producers and insurance firm stockholders alike … scale economies and measuring efficiency-market share dynamics during 1995-2010. Large unused scale economies exist for …
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The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry … firms, stock insurers, and insurance groups were more likely to achieve efficiency and productivity gains. Higher technology …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The …
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This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … London are grouped into Syndicates in order to undertake insurance liabilities. In this study, the Syndicate is regarded as … the counterpart of an insurance company in a regular insurance market. The analysis covers a period of eight years between …
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efficiency and productivity measurement in insurance …The objective of this paper is to discuss the use of modern frontier efficiency analysis to analyze firm performance in … the insurance industry. The objective is to provide the foundations for insurance economists to use in adapting their …
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