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This book condenses several theoretical, methodological, empirical, and philosophical issues in conceptualizing, measuring, and empirically operationalizing the economic output of the banking and insurance industries. The analytical focus is on both Global and Emerging Markets perspectives.
List of contents
1. Setting the Analytical Background
Part I - Survey of Evidences: Theoretical and Empirical issues 2. Qualitative and quantitative aspects of the survey of literature 3. Review of evidence on banking output measurement: Global perspective 4. Review of evidence on insurance output measurement: Global perspective 5. Extended notes on the banking and insurance output measurement problem
Part II - Expert opinions and contributions: Emerging Markets Perspective 6. Method and rationale 7. Expert perspectives on output measurement in banking and insurance
Part III - Empirical Case Studies: A BRIICS perspective 8. Empirical case studies for the banking industry on implications of using alternative output definitions 9. Testing the Empirical Sensitivity of major performance indicators of the insurance industry under alternative output definitions: Selected Exercises
Part IV: Extended notes and concluding remarks 10. Inputs measurement issues 11. Limitations, future scope and concluding remarks
About the author
Bhagirath Prakash Baria is Assistant Professor at the Department of Banking and Insurance, Faculty of Commerce, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. The broad areas of his interest include macroeconomics of banking, agricultural productivity, and performance analysis of banking and insurance industries. The author strongly believes in pluralism in both teaching and research. He has a Masters' Degree in Business Economics with two Gold Medals, has published in several reputed national and international journals, won a Young Researcher Award, founded a non-profit educational initiative called The Cafe Economics (TCE), and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the area of International Finance.
Summary
This book condenses several theoretical, methodological, empirical, and philosophical issues in conceptualizing, measuring, and empirically operationalizing the economic output of the banking and insurance industries. The analytical focus is on both Global and Emerging Markets perspectives.
