Profitability, Growth and Efficiency in the US Life Insurance Industry

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: SEGAL, Dan, Greene, William H.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• الموضوعات: stochastic frontier; cost inefficiency; profitability; life insurance; organizational form; Accounting; Corporate Finance; Insurance
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/810; http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:PROD.0000022092.70204.fa

This study explores the relationship between cost inefficiency and profitability in the U.S. life insurance industry. Earnings have particular importance to life insurance companies because earnings and capital determine the viability of the insurer. Since the life insurance industry is mature and h...