Cost efficiency and board composition under different takaful insurance business models

Autor: Hala Abdul Kader, W. Jean Kwon, Philip Hardwick, Mike Adams

Publikováno v: Abdul Kader, H, Adams, M, Hardwick, P & Kwon, W J 2014, ' Cost efficiency and board composition under different takaful insurance business models ', International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 32, pp. 60-70 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2013.12.008

This study examines the link between cost efficiency and board composition in non-life takaful insurance firms operating in 17 Islamic countries using panel data for 2004–2007. Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to compute cost e

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2013.12.008

The Cost Efficiency of Takaful Insurance Companies

Autor: Mike Adams, Philip Hardwick, Hale Abdul Kader

Publikováno v: The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice. 35:161-181

This study examines the cost efficiency of non-life Takaful insurance firms operating in 10 Islamic countries. Non-parametric data envelopment analysis is used to compute cost efficiency scores and a second-stage logit transformation regression model

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https://doi.org/10.1057/gpp.2009.33

Actuarial Surplus Management in United Kingdom Life Insurance Firms

Autor: Mike Adams, Philip Hardwick

Publikováno v: Journal of Business Finance Accounting. 30:891-904

This study uses 1991–99 data gathered from the United Kingdom's life insurance industry to test empirically the notion that the reported annual surplus of a life insurer may be influenced by four firm-specific characteristics: namely, reinsurance,

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5957.05505

Claims Estimation in Life Insurance Firms: United Kingdom and New Zealand Evidence

Autor: Mike Adams, Philip Hardwick

Publikováno v: Risk Management. 5:51-63

In the insurance industry, claims tend to constitute the major proportion of total annual outgoings across almost all product lines. This study develops a cost function of insurance claims and applies the model to 1988–93 data from the United Kingd

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https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.rm.8240139

Firm size and growth in Sweden's life insurance market between 1855 and 1947:a test of Gibrat's law

Autor: Mike Adams, Magnus Lindmark, Philip Hardwick, Lars Fredrik Andersson

Publikováno v: Adams, M, Andersson, L F, Hardwick, P & Lindmark, M 2014, ' Firm size and growth in Sweden's life insurance market between 1855 and 1947 : a test of Gibrat's law ', Business History, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 956-974 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.848341

Using data for the period from 1855 to 1947 and the two sub-periods, 1855-1902 and 1903-47, the article examines whether the organic growth rates of 38 Swedish life insurance firms are independent of size, as predicted by Gibrat's (1931) Law of Propo

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https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/files/138052065/Swedish_Gibrat_5_BH_Sept_2013_pre_Final_.pdf