This article investigates the relationship between firm specific factors and macroeconomics on profitability in Taiwanese property-liability insurance industry using the panel data over the1999 through 2009 time period. Using operating ratio and return on assets (ROA) for the two kinds of profitability indicators to measure insurers’ profitability. The results show that underwriting risk, reins...

This study aims to examine the effect of capital structure and company growth on value, test value moderated by profitability, profitability. type research is quantitative descriptive research. The sample used was 52 companies listed Indonesian Sharia Stock Index (ISSI) in 2016-2020 using a sampling technique that purposive sampling. data this secondary data. analysis classical assumption T MRA...

The focus of this study is on the extent to which IAS 18 is applied by Jordanian industrial companies. Specifically, the objectives of this study are: 1) to investigate the extent of application of IAS 18 in selected Jordanian industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE); 2) to investigate the impact of certain corporate characteristics such as company size, profitability, liqu...

The paper studies the impact of bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors affecting profitability of Indian Banks in a dynamic model framework. The persistence of bank profits and endogeneity of the factors have been accounted for using Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) as suggested in Arellano & Bond, 1991.The panel data for the study have been obtained from 42 Indian Schedu...

Multiple-trait selection indexes should include all of the economically-relevant traits that influence the profitability of beef cattle production. They provide an economic evaluation of the genetic differences among sires, and an objective way to determine likely differences in the profitability of progeny from different sires. In contrast to the swine, poultry, sheep, and dairy cattle industr...

OBJECTIVE Day hospitals are an alternative to conventional hospital care. We analyzed the functioning and profitability of the day hospital of Hospital Clínico de Valladolid, Spain, in 2009. Profitability is expressed as the provision of identical health coverage at a lower cost than that generated by conventional hospital care and with adequate quality indicators. METHODS We performed a retr...

This study investigates the firm-specific factors affecting the profitability of non-life insurance companies operating in Turkey. For this purpose, data of 24 non-life insurance companies operating in Turkey from the period 2006–2013 were brought together to obtain 192 observed panel data sets. In this study, profitability is measured by two different variables: technical profitability ratio a...

Monte Carlo simulation is used to develop a flexible framework to measure the profitability, risk, and competitiveness of any insurance product. A genetic algorithm is then used to seek the optimum asset allocations that form the profitability-risk-competitiveness frontier and to examine the profitability, risk, and competitiveness trade-off's. We also show how to select the appropriate asset a...

The research investigates the effect of financial leverage on firm performance: reference to investment trust companies listed in All Share Price Index (ASPI) Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). Data for study were collected period through annual reports and analyzed data using multiple linear regressions. Profitability, Liquidity, Asset Management efficiency performance firms are measured respective...

In summary, I think the industry is doing the right things to return to profitability. Rates are increasing, underwriting and products are tightening, claim administration is becoming more proactive, and reserves are being strengthened. I think this will lead to future profitability, and future profitability will attract some new companies into the marketplace. The real long-term question is, o...