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Interlocking Directorates as a Trust Substitute: The Italian Non-Life Insurance Industry
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009This paper investigates the Italian insurance system by analyzing the (interlock) linkages among companies created through their directors. This approach defines interlocking directorates as the tie created between two companies when a person is a member of both boards of directors; each case of administrators’ co-presence is thus a connection between ...
Davide Carbonai, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo
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Mergers, coordinated effects and efficiency in the Portuguese non-life insurance industry
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2013We evaluate the impact on market power and efficiency of a series of mergers on three Portuguese non-life insurance markets. We specify and estimate, with a panel of firm-level data, a structural model which includes: preferences, technology, and a market equilibrium condition. Firms' demand curves are not very elastic.
Brito, Duarte +2 more
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A Study on Financial Performance of Indian Non-Life Insurance Industry
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008Study involves an analysis of financial performance of the Non-Life insurance sector in India using financial ratios such as claims ratio and combined ratio. It also involves assessment of compliance with IRDA regulations - Solvency margins and Rural and Social Sector Obligations - by the existing insurers.
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Economies of scale and scope in the Finnish non-life insurance industry
Journal of Banking & Finance, 1997Abstract Economies of scale and scope in Finnish non-life insurance are studied. The production process is separated into cost and portfolio management functions. Firms expand their branch network to either gain market power or informational advantages.
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Impact of Mobile Broadband on Non-life Insurance Industry in Thailand and Singapore
2014This study investigates whether the non-life insurance industries in Thailand and Singapore are growing by the usage of mobile broadband technology. It examines the impact of the third generation (3G) mobile phone in Thailand and compares the same to the impact in Singapore as a benchmark.
Niwattisaiwong Seksiri, Komsan Suriya
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Capital Gains, Losses, and Financial Results in the Non-Life Insurance Industry
The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1975The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of 1956-72 capital gains and losses upon the risk/return and solvency positions of randomly selected samples of stock and mutual nonlife insurers. The results indicate that for most of the insurers the risk/retum relationships deteriorated when capital gains and losses were included in earnings. If the
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The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2019
Abstract This study empirically analyzes the degree of competition in the insurance industry segmented in life and non-life market in Ecuador from 2001 to 2016, we use the Panzar and Rosse methodology to assess the competitive conditions, we apply POLS, year fixed effects, firm fixed effects and random effects, then we determine if the market is in ...
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Abstract This study empirically analyzes the degree of competition in the insurance industry segmented in life and non-life market in Ecuador from 2001 to 2016, we use the Panzar and Rosse methodology to assess the competitive conditions, we apply POLS, year fixed effects, firm fixed effects and random effects, then we determine if the market is in ...
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A Study on Financial Performance of Non-life Insurance Industry in Japan
The Korean-Japanese Economic and Management AssociationPurpose: This study examines financial performance of the Japanese non-life insurance industry comparing USA and Korean non-life insurance industry by using the A.M. Best’s rating technique. We also aim to contribute to an improved understanding of the relationship between growth, efficiency, profitability, safety, and liquidity in Japanese non-life ...
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Corporate Controversies and Financial Stability in the Non-Life Insurance Industry
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021María PILAR Giráldez-Puig +1 more
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Change and strategic responses in the life and non-life Swiss insurance industry
2019The Swiss insurance industry notifies a trend towards more technology-driven solutions, new regulations, and changing customer expectations. Start-ups, today called InsurTechs, took their chance and entered the market by exploiting opportunities offered by technology.
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