The demise of the mutual organizational form: An investigation of the life insurance industry

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1011-1036

  Erhemjamts, Otgontsetseg ^a   Leverty, J Tyler ^b  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demutualization; Efficiency; Insurance; Organizational form; Tax

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955792949     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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