WTO and the chinese insurance industry

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 440-465

  Leverty, J Tyler ^a   Lin, Yijia ^b   Zhou, Hao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Allianz General Representative Office   (China)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Insurance; Productivity; WTO

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349100163     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2009.12     Document Type: Article

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