Economics depends on the economic scale of planning. Economists study the characteristics of the production function, while community operating management focuses on demand realization, so that loss of sales or inventory prevents cost reductions and maximizes profits. However, companies with a lack of capacity need to achieve economies of scale and demand to realize them simultaneously, especia...

The prospects of Congress permitting bank expansion into insurance continues to concern bankers, insurers and investors. Based upon event study methods, abnormal returns to investors of banks engaging in currently permitted insurance activities are found to be significant over the 1974-1990 period. Further, disaggregated results suggest that there were significantly higher returns to more recen...

The diagnosis, management, and implications of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remain areas of controversy. The International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (1) suggested new diagnostic criteria based on the results of the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Study (2). These criteria have been adopted by the World Health Organization (3), but the National Ins...

Talking to insurance brokers can be like coming to this planet from a different place and time. Their language is strange and unintelligible. Why is this so? First, most insurance companies don ' t unde r s t and landscape contractors and aren't interested in learning about the green industry. The insurance industry, for the most part, views a landscape contractor as something smaller than a sm...

Electronic commerce is causing fundamental changes in the insurance industry. The New Zealand insurance industry is well positioned to benefit from electronic commerce due to the high level of online access technology, high Internet usage, the high number of websites and the fact that New Zealanders are usually quick to embrace new technology. However, despite the emergence of e-commerce in the...

The objective of most US institutions with assets to invest is to fund some sort of liability, as is the case with banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and so forth. As a result, asset/liability management (ALM) should be the investment focus and the basis for selecting the core portfolio. Insurance companies may be the birthplace of ALM and certainly have been the model of ALM discipline...

this paper attempts to develop a method for readiness assessment of potential electronic commerce (e-commerce) success of iran’s insurance industry. this method can expand in other industries. key factors impacting e-commerce are identified from wells, d. and thomann, j. (2006) researches. this model is a two-dimension 3*4 matrix. each dimension consists of variables that influence on insurance...

This article provides a case study that analyzes national macroprudential insurance regulation in Switzerland. We consider an insurance market that is based on data from the Swiss private insurance industry. We stress this market with several scenarios related to financial and insurance risks, and we analyze the resulting risk capitals of the insurance companies. This stress-test analysis provi...