Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrages steht die Frage, inwieweit die identitätsorientierte Markenführung in der Versicherungsbranche Einzug erhalten hat und wie sie umgesetzt werden sollte. Nach kurzer theoretischer Darstellung des Versicherungsmarktes, der identitätsorientierten Markenführung und...

It has long been recognized in the literature that the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies can complement each other fruitfully. So far, however, researchers have not been able to derive definitive conclusions on how to combine these methods; furthermore, there is little research on how to apply...

Purpose - This study investigated the impact of corporate ownership structure on agency costs in the insurance industry. Design/methodology/approach The study sample included 23 insurance companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) from 2010 to 2019. Panel regression was used to account...

Der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine bringt grundlegende Veränderungen mit sich. Nicht nur in politischer auch in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht ist der Krieg eine Zeitenwende, der kurz- und längerfristig erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Volkswirtschaften und Märkte haben wird. Dabei kommt der...

This study is intended to assess the introduction of increased capitalization requirements for Ukrainian insurance firms. To do so, we employ up-to-date frontier efficiency analysis The analysis suggests that an increase in size occurs not only because of the regulator?s requirements, but also...

There exist a vast number of studies on the banking industry. However, the insurance industry remains relatively unexplored. Increasingly, Austrian insurance institutions are becoming important as financial intermediaries in the domestic market, and - based on proximity advantage - also in the...

The integration of European services markets and the associated deregulation measures open up formerly segmented markets to competition from the Single Market. The purpose of this study is to propose a method of measuring the effects of liberalization on technical efficiency, the existence of...

This paper investigates the effect of the conventional and unconventional (e.g. Quantitative Easing - QE) monetary policy intervention on the insurance industry. We first analyze the impact on the stock performances of 166 (re)insurers from the last QE programme launched by the European Central...

We examine the impact of demutualization announcements by 13 life insurance companies during 1996-2000 on the value of existing stock-owned life insurance companies and companies in other segments of the insurance industry. Demutualization announcements are associated with negative stock price...

We introduce a new dynamic clustering method for multivariate panel data char- acterized by time-variation in cluster locations and shapes, cluster compositions, and, possibly, the number of clusters. To avoid overly frequent cluster switching (flickering), we extend standard cross-sectional...