Efficiency and productivity change of non-life insurance companies in Japan

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 129-146

  Fukuyama, Hirofumi ^a   Weber, William L ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0035120458     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0106.00122     Document Type: Article

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