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Economies of Scale in the Australian General Insurance Industry

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  • Peter Praetz
  • Murray Beattie

    (Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.)

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This paper finds very strong evidence of economies of scale for a sample of 143 private sector companies from the 1979–80 Insurance Commissioner's Report.

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  • Peter Praetz & Murray Beattie, 1982. "Economies of Scale in the Australian General Insurance Industry," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 7(2), pages 117-124, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ausman:v:7:y:1982:i:2:p:117-124
    DOI: 10.1177/031289628200700202
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    1. Allen, Robert F, 1974. "Cross-Sectional Estimates of Cost Economies in Stock Property-Liability Companies," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 56(1), pages 100-103, February.
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    ECONOMIES OF SCALE; GENERAL INSURERS;

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