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Interlocking directorates as a thrust substitute: The case of the Italian non-life insurance industry

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  • Carbonai, Davide
  • Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni

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This paper investigates the market structure of the insurance business by analyzing the (interlock) linkages among companies created by their directors. We focus on the non-life business since this is a sector relatively closed with respect to the competition with other financial activities; an absence of industry competition cannot thus be compensated by other agents. We apply the graph theory to describe the network and the principal component analysis to summarize information and verify the correlation between direct interlocking and companies’ market shares.

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Keywords: Non-life insurance; antitrust; competition; interlocking directorates; network economics;

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Cited by:

  1. Di Bartolomeo, Anna & Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni, 2007. "Integration of migrants in Italy: A simple general and objective measure," MPRA Paper 4421, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Giovanni Bartolomeo & Paolo Canofari, 2015. "Interlocking Directorates and Concentration in the Italian Insurance Market," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 15(4), pages 351-362, December.
  3. Davide Carbonai & Carlo Drago, 2015. "Positive Freedom in Networked Capitalism: An Empirical Analysis," Working Papers 2015.75, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.

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