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 …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

This paper investigates economies of scope in the US insurance industry over the period
1993–2006. We test the conglomeration hypothesis, which holds that firms can optimize by …

In this study, productivity growth in 35 Australian universities is investigated using non-
parametric frontier techniques over the period 1998–2003. The five inputs included in the …

This paper provides new information on the effects of deregulation and consolidation in
financial services markets by analyzing the Spanish insurance industry. The sample period …

The Classroom Companion series in Economics features fundamental textbooks aimed at
introducing students to the core concepts, empirical methods, theories and tools of the …

This paper provides cross-country evidence on the association between soundness and
competition in the life insurance industry, where competition is measured by the Boone …

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 …