Insurance companies in Mozambique: a two-stage DEA and neural networks on efficiency and capacity slacks

Carlos Barros and Peter Wanke

Applied Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 29, 3591-3600

Abstract: This article analyses the efficiency of Mozambique insurance companies using a DEA model. Two DEA models are used and a bootstrap approach adopted. Furthermore, the efficiency scores are predicted based on neural networks. The results reveal that Mozambique insurance companies’ output-increasing potentials are severely constrained, particularly in terms of the ceded reinsurance increasing potentials. Policy implications are derived.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.934436

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