China’s Insurance Companies’ Efficiency: An Empirical Study Jiayan ZHU Thesis submitted as partial requirement for the conferral of the degree of Doctor of Management Supervisor: Prof. Álvaro Rosa, Associate Professor, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon Co-supervisor: Prof. Liping, Full Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Management and Economics Sep. 2019 China’s Insurance Companies’ Efficiency:An Empirical Study Jiayan ZHU - Spine Spine – China’s Insurance Companies’ Efficiency: An Empirical Study Jiayan ZHU Thesis submitted as partial requirement for the conferral of the degree of Doctor of Management Supervisor: Prof. Álvaro Rosa, Associate Professor, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon Co-supervisor: Prof. Liping, Full Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Management and Economics Sep. 2019 Statement of honor Submission of master's dissertation or project work or doctoral thesis I the undersigned state on my honor that: - The work submitted herewith is original and of my exclusive authorship and that I have indicated all the sources used. - I give my permission for my work to be put through Safe Assign plagiarism detection tool. - I am familiar with the ISCTE-IUL Student Disciplinary Regulations and the ISCTE-IUL Code of Academic Conduct. - I am aware that plagiarism, self-plagiarism or copying constitutes an academic violation. Full name: Jiayan ZHU Course:Doctor of management Student number: Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number:+86-18611661950 ISCTE-IUL, 15/5/2019 Signed Abstract Great achievements have been seen in China’s insurance industry in the past 20 years, however, inefficiency problems were prevailing as many insurance company only pursuing the expansion of the quantity, but not the increase of their key competitiveness.