Under pressure: how the business environment affects productivity and efficiency of European life insurance companies

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2016.08.070zbMath1394.90338OpenAlexW2514302804MaRDI QIDQ1751750

Philipp Schaper, Martin Eling

Publication date: 25 May 2018

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.08.070

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisOR in insurancemulti-stage DEA, uncontrollable variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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