Single Market effects on productivity in the German insurance industry

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1540-1548

  Mahlberg, Bernhard ^a,b   Url, Thomas ^a,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b Institute for Industrial Research (IWI)   (Austria)

^c AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bootstrapped data envelopment analysis; Productivity growth; Single Market

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952744963     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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