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Download or read book Efficiency and Productivity Analyses of Public Sector General Insurance Firms in India written by Joy Chakraborty and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the rising presence of private players after the enactment of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) Act in 1999, the four major public sector general insurance firms in India, namely, the National Insurance Company Limited, Oriental Insurance Company Limited, New India Assurance Company Limited and the United India Insurance Company Limited continued to dominate the Indian general insurance sector with a collective market share of 50.24% at the end of the FY 2014-15. However, the significant decline in the market shares of the state-owned general insurers, with an abrupt rise in the footfall of private players, has eventually raised concerns about their operational efficiency and productivity growth in the country's general insurance sector. The present study addresses the efficiency and productivity issues of the four major public sector general insurance firms in India against the backdrop of the US financial crisis of 2007-08. The study applies the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the technical and scale efficiency scores along with total factor productivity changes of the four public sector non-life insurance companies during the post-deregulation study period from 2008-09 to 2014-15. The results of the study show United India Insurance Company as the most technically and scale efficient player, whereas the National Insurance Company was found to be the most productive player among the public sector general insurance firms during the period.