This paper investigated the structure of market, efficiency and performance (profitability) general insurance industry in Ghanaian economy. The overriding objective was to evaluate impact that regulatory informed market would have on pricing behaviour; examining hypothesis Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) for market. Using data comprising a panel 29 firms from 2008–2019, used Herfindahl Hirs...

The aim of the research is to determine impact COVID-19 pandemic (and subsequent state aid) on selected financial indicators tour operators operating Slovakia’s market. article analyses changes in market between 2018 and 2020 (market concentration, insolvency insurance). For purposes describing position operators, medians were processed. At same time, a two-sample t-test was used test hypothese...

Abstract The topic of this study has been the examination and comparison competitive balance Spanish English first leagues soccer, called La Liga Santander Barclays Premier League. basis for research project provided by a database sixteen hundred elements, containing data two starting from 2014/2015 season up to 2017/2018 season. When choosing time period study, we intended avoid having deal wi...

This study examines the influence of competition on the financial stability of the commercial banks of Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) over the 1990 to 2014 period. Panzar-Rosse H-statistic, Lerner index and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) are used as measures of competition, while Z-score, non-performing loan (NPL) ratio and equity ratio are used as measures of financial stabili...

Conventional wisdom indicates that economic specialization can promote economic growth, whereas economic stability is theoretically associated with diversified economies. This conflicting relationship between specialization and diversity has been questioned, as regional scientists have suggested that specialization and diversity can coexist in a regional economy and proposed the concept of dive...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the possible relationship between industrial structure and economic development in rural areas South Korea. Accordingly, uses Herfindahl–Hirschman Index a two-step cluster analysis method conduct an empirical Chungcheongbuk-do as research object. results show that among 11 regions with concentrated structures, 2 changed from decentralized low employment 2...

Our objective is to establish whether the level of assets, liabilities, and income diversification Mexican banks related their profitability risk levels. Using financial information 15 key banks, between 2010 2021, along with Herfindahl-Hirschman Index a series polynomial regression analyzes, we calculated each bank. We also computed inflection points suggesting that need adopt an asset special...

Theories of the hospital market view hospitals as competing for patients, physicians and third-party payers simultaneously. The competition involves such elements as price, quality, convenience, technology and innovation and the effects of the competition in the market affect the quality of care, clinical outcomes, cost of services, access as well as patient satisfaction. The purpose of the pap...

Owing to a long-term, extensive development model and inadequate industrial planning, cases of atmospheric environment pollution frequently occur in Hebei province. By using such approaches as the Spatial Gini Coefficient, Herfindahl–Hirschman Index location entropy, this paper analyzes spatial-distribution characteristics pollution-intensive industries thermal power industry As shown, industri...