会议专题

If Gibrat”s laws applicable to China”s Life Insurance Companies? --the influence factors of Life insurance company size and growth

  According to Gibrat?s law the growth of firms is independent of the size of firms.Based on the theory of industrial organization,competition strategy and externalities this paper discusses the applicability of Gibrat?s law to Chinese life industry,the relation between size and growth of life insurance companies and the main influence factors to size and growth.The findings imply: (1) Gibrat?s law is not consistent in Chinese life industry; (2)there is a convergence effect in the growth rate of premium and capital of life industry; (3)the Industry characteristic,business structure and externalities have a significantly effect to the size and growth of life companies.

Gibrat”s law size growth influence factors

SHAO quanquan

Nankai University,Tianjing,300071

国内会议

2011中国保险与风险管理国际年会

北京

英文

212-222

2011-07-24(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)