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Integration and convergence in efficiency and technology gap of European life insurance markets
Cummins, J. David Rubio-Misas, María
Cummins, J. David
Rubio-Misas, María
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2022-04-23
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Risk, Actuarial Science, and Legal Studies
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04672-w
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This paper applies the meta-frontier Data Envelopment Analysis and the main concepts of convergence from the economic growth literature (β-convergence and σ-convergence) to analyze integration and convergence both in efficiency and in technology gap of European Union (EU) insurance markets. We evaluate 10 EU life insurance markets over the 17-year-period 1998–2014. Results show convergence in cost/revenue efficiency among major EU life insurance markets during the sample period. These findings indicate that the least efficient countries in 1998 have shown a higher improvement in cost/revenue efficiency than the most efficient countries in the same year as well as that the dispersion of the mean efficiency scores among EU life insurance markets decreased over the sample period. We also find convergence in cost/revenue technology gap among these markets, suggesting that they become more technologically homogeneous during the sample period. However, results show that the global financial crisis has led to a slowdown in the progress of integration and convergence in efficiency and technology gap of EU life insurance markets in terms of cost efficiency but not in terms of revenue efficiency.
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Cummins, J.D., Rubio-Misas, M. Integration and convergence in efficiency and technology gap of European life insurance markets. Ann Oper Res 315, 93–119 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04672-w
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Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 315
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