The determinants of efficiency and productivity in the Swiss insurance industry

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2015.07.055zbMath1346.91105OpenAlexW856107719MaRDI QIDQ320757

Christian Biener, Jan Hendrik Wirfs, Martin Eling

Publication date: 7 October 2016

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

Full work available at URL: http://ux-tauri.unisg.ch/RePEc/usg/sfwpfi/WPF-1502.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisinternationalizationOR in insurancetwo-stage double-bootstrap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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