Assessing the marketing and investment efficiency of Taiwan’s life insurance firms under network structures
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Taiwan’s life insurers; Network SFA; Copula methods; Disaggregate data; Simultaneous equations; The maximum likelihood; Technical efficiency score; Technical change; Scale economies;All these keywords.
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- C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
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