This paper examines the impact of the concentration of the property insurance industry on economic growth in China. We first compute the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) for the Chinese property insurance industry and establish a two-step system of generalized methods of moments (Two-Step SYS-GMM) estimation to compute the economic effect using a unique data set from the years 1980 to 2014. The...

the inssurance industry is one of the service industries has significant competition and innovation. with regard to importance of innovation issue for top managers of iranian insurance companies, a conceptual model has been developed for corporate innovation capability concept. in this paper, after describing the research problem, innovation concept with comparative review of recent theories of...

While other industries within the financial sector have vigorously embraced the Internet to obtain sustainable competitive advantage, the insurance industry has been slow to fully adopt ecommerce. This article examines the barriers as well as the success factors involved in making the transition to a Web-enabled insurance model. Emerging standards and technologies that will make possible the ne...

This article analyzes the organizational model of the dental health industry. The main organizational leaders in this industry are the professional cooperatives and group dental insurance companies. The theoretical basis of the article is the organizational theory developed by Di Maggio and Powell. The dental health industry consists of a great number of small and very dynamic companies, howeve...

This study aims to probe into the analysis of online word-of-mouth in the insurance industry of Taiwan. By treating the top four insurance companies as key words, the researcher extracts users’ learning from blogs and online forums between January 1, 2010 and July 5, 2011. After eliminating improper samples, there are 914 valid articles. The research findings demonstrate that, the characteristi...

Private health insurance benefit payments are an integral component of estimates of national health expenditures. Recent analyses indicate that the insurance industry has undergone significant changes since the mid-1970's. As a result of these study findings and corresponding changes to estimating techniques, private health insurance estimates have been revised upward. This has had a major impa...

insurance industry is one of the effective factors of developing sustainable agriculture. natural resources that are more pone to influence than other phenomenon such as: drought, there are limited areas under insurance. from 86.4 million hectares of country ranges, there are nearly 3 million hectares under insurance. semnan province are compared to other areas has more range insured. therefore...

The challenging market condition for insurance carriers has become intense so that insurance companies look for all the feasible options for survival including consolidation with other insurance carriers, agent and broker networks and even non-insurance financial institutions. Using event study methodology, our study investigates whether the mergers and acquisitions of US insurers create value ...

Fraud is widespread and very costly to the healthcare insurance system. Fraud involves intentional deception or misrepresentation intended to result in an unauthorized benefit. It is shocking because the incidence of health insurance fraud keeps increasing every year. In order to detect and avoid the fraud, data mining techniques are applied. Frauds blow a hole in the insurance industry. Health...