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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from the Spanish Insurance Industry

Overview This paper provides new information on the effects of deregulation and consolidation in financial services markets by analyzing the Spanish insurance industry. Deregulation has led to dramatic changes in the Spanish insurance market; the number of firms declined by 35 percent and average firm size increased by 275 percent. We analyze the causes and effects of consolidation using modern frontier efficiency analysis to estimate cost, technical, and allocative efficiency, as well as using Malmquist analysis to measure total factor productivity change.

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Publisher	Wharton Financial Institutions Center	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	November 2001	Downloads	289
Format	White Papers
Topics	Currency Conversion, Actuarial Services, Policy Document Management

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