Recently in the insurance sector, efficiency measurement of insurance firms has attracted
great interest from investors, financial market analysts, insurance regulators, and …

This chapter reviews the modern frontier efficiency and productivity methodologies that have
been developed to analyze firm performance, emphasizing applications to the insurance …

Deregulation and widespread economic changes have fundamentally affected the business
environment of European life insurance companies over the last decades. We apply multi …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the regulatory-driven market
structure on firm pricing behaviour by testing the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is is to identify the main determinants of insurance
profitability on life and non-life segments to obtain which variables affect in each market of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the performance of the Indian non-life
(general) insurance sector in terms of efficiency, productivity and returns-to-scale …

In recent years, competition in the insurance sector has increased due to the number of
players added by the emergence of takaful. This paper examines the impact of competition …

Purpose In China, engineering insurance has been questioned as not being beneficial as
expected. This paper seeks to further understand how China's engineering insurance …

This study focuses on the analysis of the determinants of Spanish cooperatives' profitability.
We inspect several variables, whose influence on firms' profitability has been verified by …

The life insurance industry plays a crucial role in the economy as it serves as one of the
channels through which countries mobilize long-term savings, promote the development of …