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The measurement of efficiency in life insurance estimates of a mixed normal-gamma error model

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  1. Dev Vencappa & Paul Fenn & Stephen Diacon, 2013. "Productivity Growth in the European Insurance Industry: Evidence from Life and Non-Life Companies," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 281-305, July.
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  36. Norma & Saad & M. Shabri Abd. Majid & Salina Kassim & Zarinah Hamid & Rosylin Mohd. Yusof, 2010. "A comparative analysis of the performance of conventional and Islamic unit trust companies in Malaysia," International Journal of Managerial Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 6(1), pages 24-47, February.
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  43. Mohammad Nourani & Qian Long Kweh & Irene Wei Kiong Ting & Wen-Min Lu & Anna Strutt, 2022. "Evaluating traditional, dynamic and network business models: an efficiency-based study of Chinese insurance companies," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 47(4), pages 905-943, October.
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  45. Bojani, Antonio N. & Caudill, Steven B. & Ford, Jon M., 1998. "Small-sample properties of ML, COLS, and DEA estimators of frontier models in the presence of heteroscedasticity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 108(1), pages 140-148, July.
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