Author/Authors :
Mousavi، Maryam نويسنده Master’s Student, Department of Management and Accounting, Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch, Tehran, Iran , , Jafari، Seyedeh Mahboubeh نويسنده Faculty member, Department of Management and Accounting, Islamic Azad University, Tehran South Branch, Tehran, Iran ,
Abstract :
Measuring the relative efficiency in insurance industry plays essential role for productivity improvement in insurance industry. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to measure the relative efficiency of some insurance firms listed on Tehran Stock Exchange using data envelopment analysis (DEA) over the period 2011-2013. The proposed study of this paper uses four inputs namely; total assets, price to earnings ratio, beta and sigma and four outputs namely; net earnings, one-year, two-year and three-year returns. The study uses two methods of input and output oriented DEA to measures the relative efficiencies of 9 banks and the results indicate that most insurance firms perform well in terms of efficiency.
