Market structure and the efficiency of European insurance companies: A stochastic frontier analysis

Keyphrases

• Cost Efficiency 50%
• Cost Function 50%
• Domestic Market 50%
• Economies of Scale 50%
• Error Term 50%
• European Countries 50%
• European Insurance Companies 100%
• European Insurance Markets 50%
• European Insurers 50%
• Financial Reports 50%
• Firm Size 100%
• Fourier 50%
• Heteroscedasticity 50%
• Increasing Returns to Scale 50%
• Insurance Business 50%
• Large Firms 50%
• Market Share 100%
• Market Structure 100%
• Maximum Likelihood Method 50%
• Size Structure 50%
• Stochastic Frontier Analysis 100%
• X-efficiency 100%

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

• Corporate Insurance 50%
• Cost Function 50%
• Firm Size 100%
• Insurance Company 100%
• Large Firm 50%
• Market Share 100%
• Market Structure 100%
• Returns to Scale 100%
• Technical Efficiency 100%