The robustness of output measures in property-liability insurance efficiency studies

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1510-1524

  Leverty, J Tyler ^a   Grace, Martin F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Frontier efficiency; Insurance; Range Adjusted Measure (RAM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952674527     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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