Download or read book An Exploration Into Competition and Efficiency in the Dutch Life Insurance Industry written by Jacob A. Bikker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competition and Efficiency in the Dutch Life Insurance Industry written by Jacob A. Bikker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies direct observation. Therefore, this article investigates competition by analysing several factors which may affect the competitive nature of a market and various indirect measurement approaches. After discussing various supply and demand factors which may constitute a so-called tight oligopoly, we establish the existence of scale economies and the importance of cost X-inefficiency, since severe competition would force firms to exploit available scale economies and to reduce X-inefficiencies. Both scale economies and X-inefficiencies turn out to be substantial, although more or less comparable to those found for insurers in other countries and to other financial institutions. Further, we apply the Boone indicator, a novel approach to measuring the effects of competition. This indicator points to limited competition in comparison to other sectors in the Netherlands. Furt

Download or read book The Dutch Insurance Industry written by Jalal Mrabti and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving competition is an ultimate goal of any government policy. Since competition is considered as a guarantee for a stable market, a fair game and welfare creation. However, measuring competition directly in the service industry is still a problematic issue due to either the lack of prices' data or the huge variety of the available products in the insurance market. In this context, this empirical research paper will investigate the degree of competition in the Dutch life and non-life insurance markets using indirect measures. For this purpose, a panel data from internal database of the De Netherlands Bank (DNB) will be used so as to calculate competition measures such as Boone indicator of competition and scale economies over the time period between 1995 and 2009. As a consequence, our research has revealed that the non-life insurance market enjoys a moderate degree of completion whereas the life insurance market operates under low degree of competition. Therefore, some regulatory measures are needed in order to improve competition and so stability in the life insurance market.

Download or read book Performance of the Dutch Non life Insurance Industry written by Jacob Bikker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Efficiency and Competition in the Dutch Non life Insurance Industry written by Jacob A. Bikker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Competition in Markets for Life Insurance written by Netherlands. Centraal Planbureau and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness written by Nigel Davies and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by life insurers appears to be the key systemic vulnerability. Building on this experience and the experience gained under the FSAP, the paper proposes key indicators that should be compiled and used for surveillance of financial soundness of insurance companies and the insurance sector as a whole.

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