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Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 Efficiency and productivity measurement in the insurance industry has attracted great interest from academicians, practitioners, financial market analysts, insurance regulators, and researchers; however, the near absence of empirical work on the ...
Albert Ayi Ashiagbor +4 more
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Process landscape and efficiency in non-life insurance claims management [PDF]
The Journal of Risk Finance, 2016 Purpose In view of the fact that claim payouts account for about 70 per cent of annual direct costs in non-life insurance companies and that claims-handling staff sums up to 10-20 per cent of all employees, an optimal claims management environment is of strategic importance. The purpose of this paper is twofold, i.e.
Mahlow, Nils, Wagner, Joël
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Efficiency and scale economies in the Japanese non-life insurance industry
International Journal of Financial Services Management, 2012 This paper studies efficiency and scale economies in the Japanese non-life insurance industry using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with inclusion of input prices in the model. Japanese non-life insurers generally score quite high in technical efficiency but low in allocative efficiency, which implies that they are not good at using the best cost ...
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The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Efficiency Performance of the Thai Non-Life Insurance Industry [PDF]
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2010 This paper examines the relation between corporate governance and efficiency performance of public non-life insurance companies in Thailand over the period 2000–2007. Data envelopment analysis is used to compute an insurer's efficiency performance including technical, allocative, cost, and revenue efficiency.
Wen-Yen Hsu, Pongpitch Petchsakulwong
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EFFECTS OF CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION ON ITS PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF CROATIAN NON-LIFE INSURANCE INDUSTRY [PDF]
Ekonomska misao i praksa, 2010 Iako je izvjestan broj autora pokušao istražiti različite aspekte industrije osiguranja, ipak zanemarujući je broj istraživanja i dokaza o radnom učinku diverzifikacije u industriji životnog i neživotnog osiguranja. To se posebno odnosi na hrvatsku industriju osiguranja.
Pavić, Ivan, Pervan, Maja
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Insurance and economic growth nexus: New Evidence from OECD countries
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 This study tackles the debate on the relationship between insurance development and economic growth by providing new evidence on the insurance sector. Most of the existing empirical studies focus primarily on the banking sector.
Issa Dawd, Noureddine Benlagha
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The contribution of life and non-life insurances on ASEAN economic growth [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2019 ASEAN is one of the regions with great potential of the world economic power. Countries included in the association of Southeast Asian countries are predicted to show strong economic growth.
Karin Amelia Safitri
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Determinants of becoming an M&A acquirer or target: evidence from the US insurance industry [PDF]
Journal of Capital Markets Studies, 2022 Purpose – This paper explores which fundamental aspects of US insurance firms are significant factors in determining whether a firm will be a target or acquirer firm.
Gökhan Özer +2 more
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Development of Takaful Industry in Turkey: Challenges and Prospects
Journal of Islamic Economics, 2022 The takaful/Islamic Insurance industry is rapidly growing across the globe. However, still, the volume of this sector is very small worldwide as well as in Turkey. This study focuses on discussing the size of growth and investment of Islamic Insurance in
Monzer Kahf, Adem Aman Shıbu
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The economic crisis and the insurance industry: The evidence from the ex-Yugoslavia region [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2010 The paper analyses the impact of the economic crisis on the insurance industries of the ex-Yugoslavia region. The analysis encompasses five countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and FYR Macedonia.
Njegomir Vladimir +2 more
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