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

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview on frontier efficiency measurement in the
insurance industry, a topic of great interest in the academic literature during the last several …

Using state-of-the-art frontier efficiency methodologies, we study the efficiency and
productivity of Swiss insurance companies in the life, property/casualty, and reinsurance …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of efficiency and productivity in the German
property-liability insurance industry, a market that has experienced significant change in …

This paper employs cross-frontier analysis, an innovative tool based on data envelopment
analysis, to provide new insight into the relationship between organization and efficiency in …

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is the approach of managing all risks faced by a firm in
an integrated, holistic fashion. This research analyzes factors that influence a firm's decision …

The performance of non-life insurers is essential to the economy because of their role in
mitigating the risks firms and households face. This study provides a comprehensive …

This paper investigates whether the organizational form of a property-liability insurer
influences its risk-taking. We investigate the investment and underwriting behavior of 62 …

This study investigates the relationship between home market performance and the choice
of foreign market entry mode using survey data and financial statement data for German …

This thesis reviews the UK life insurance industry comprehensively in terms of performance
and business behaviour. One major contribution of the thesis is to challenge the …