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Scale economies and performances in the French Insurance Industry
Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne; Kessler, D.; Pestieau, Pierre et al.
1991In Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, (60)
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Abstract :
[en] The purpose of this paper is to provide for both life and non life insurance a measurement of economies of scale and an assessment of productive performance of French companies. We use a translog cost function to check the presence of scale economies and a parametric approach to construct our yardstick of productive efficiency. Our panel data covers 84 life and 243 non life companies for the period 1984–89. The main findings indicate both the existence of increasing returns to scale and a wide dispersion in the rates of inefficiency across companies. Those two results are shown to be closely linked to a number of characteristics of the companies studied, particularly their institutional form.
Research center :
CREPP - Centre de Recherche en Économie Publique et de la Population - ULiège
Disciplines :
Economic systems & public economics
Author, co-author :
Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie politique et économie de la santé
Kessler, D.
Pestieau, Pierre  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion > HEC-Ecole de gestion
Perelman, Sergio  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie publique appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
Scale economies and performances in the French Insurance Industry
Publication date :
1991
Journal title :
Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice
ISSN :
1018-5895
eISSN :
1468-0440
Publisher :
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom
Issue :
60
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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