This dissertation consists of four essays on insurance economies. It aims to answer questions in the fields of … insurance transactions (Essays I and IV) as well as insurance operations and strategies (Essays II and III). These questions are … relevant both to the insurance academic community and to the insurance industry. The methodologies explored in the dissertation …

the insurance industry, a topic of great interest in the academic literature during the last several years. In the first … step, we review 87 studies and put them into a joint evalu-ation of efficiency measurement in the field of insurance. In … technical and cost efficiency growth in international insurance markets from 2002 to 2006, with large differences across …