Growth of the Insurtech Industry: A Quantitative Study with Reference to Private Non-Life Insurers
The insurance business is a big economic entity that contributes to global growth. Insurance promotes commerce and it is play a key role in growth of service industry. It is one of the traditional and conventional sector along with banking that is promoting business globally.
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Consolidation and Efficiency in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions, efficiency, and scale economies in the US life insurance industry. We estimate cost and revenue efficiency over the period 1988-1995 using data envelopment analysis (DEA).
J. David Cummins +2 more
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Single- versus multi-channel distribution strategies in the German life insurance market: A cost and profit efficiency analysis [PDF]
Until its liberalisation in 1994 exclusive agents dominated the distribution of products in the German life insurance industry. Since then, their importance has been declining for the benefit of both distribution via direct distribution channel and ...
Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda
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Agricultural Injuries With Dementia: Double Whammy?
ABSTRACT Background Nearly 40% of US farmers are over 65 years old. Some emerging evidence links agricultural occupational exposure to increased dementia risk. However, little is known about dementia and injury outcomes in agricultural settings. Methods We employed data from the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Programs Participant Use File (
Kanika Arora +3 more
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Modeling Non-Life Insurance Price for Risk without Historical Information
How should an insurer price a risk for which there is no history? This work intends to show, step by step, which main mechanisms are needed to capture the tariff model of another insurance company minimizing the risk involved.
Filipe Charters de Azevedo +2 more
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Product Innovation and Population Dynamics in the German Insurance Market [PDF]
Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies
Andreas Pyka +3 more
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Institutional investors in Germany : insurance companies and investment funds [PDF]
This chapter focuses on institutional investors in the German financial markets. Institutional investors are specialized financial intermediaries who collect and manage funds on behalf of small investors toward specific objectives in terms of risk ...
Maurer, Raimond
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Integrating Occupational Health and Safety Into the Artificial Intelligence System Life Cycle
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly transforming the workplace, performing tasks once limited to human intelligence such as decision‐making, prediction, and pattern recognition. While AI adoption offers opportunities to improve productivity, it can also create new occupational hazards and alter working conditions in ways that may ...
Jared Bierbrier, Arif Jetha
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EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF THE INSURANCE SECTOR IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
We analyzed the efficiency of the insurance industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the period from 2015 to 2019 in order to identify good and bad practices, sources of inefficiency and to propose guidelines for the necessary efficiency improvements
Mirza Šikalo, Almira Arnaut-Berilo
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Recent Competition in the Japanese Life Insurance Industry [PDF]
This paper examines a change in the level of competition in the Japanese life insurance industry over the last 17 years. We estimate the first order condition for profit-maximizing insurance oligopolies to obtain the degree of non-competition and ...
Toshiyuki Souma, Yoshiro Tsutsui
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