TY - JOUR
T1 - The influence of liberalization on innovation, performance, and competition level of insurance industry in indonesia
AU - Suryanto, Tulus
AU - Dimasqy, Darul
AU - Ronaldo, Reza
AU - Ekananda, Mahjus
AU - Dinata, Teuku Heru
AU - Tumbelaka, Indra
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: The Indonesia Financial Service Authority supported this work (grant no SP−2/MS.4210/PENG/2020).
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The authors thank and extend their appreciation to the management department of the Research in Financial Service Sector, Indonesia Financial Service Authority for support project, and to Sekolah Tinggi Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam (STEBI) Lampung University for helping explore this subject by inviting experts from related fields, providing map data, and support funding for this work of research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12/2
Y1 - 2020/12/2
N2 - This study aims to reveal the impact of liberalization on innovation, performance, and the level of competition for insurance industry players in Indonesia based on insurance data from 2006 to 2018. The research method used is quantitative with the support of panel data. The analysis technique to explain the findings uses an aggregate model and Threshold Regression analysis. Descriptive and econometric research types were chosen to make it easier to explain the findings. From the results of data analysis using three experimental models, it shows three findings. First, in the aggregate, there is a significant negative relationship between liberalization and innovation. In the Threshold Regression model, a negative impact occurs on companies with low premium income, whereas in high premium income companies, the result is positive. This is due to the availability of resources to large companies to optimize the adaptation of liberalization in terms of innovation. Second, higher liberalization can encourage insurance companies to perform more efficiently and increase net premium income. Third, the negative impact of liberalization on competition shows that the higher the deregulation, the lower the game. These findings indicate that in the aggregate, global insurance financial liberalization has had a significant impact on the development of the insurance industry sector in Indonesia. However, liberalization can be different for groups of small companies and groups of large companies. The expected implication is that the government needs to adopt a long-term policy strategy that can encourage the sustainability of insurance companies: both high-income companies and low-premium-income companies. Besides this, it is hoped that insurance companies pay more attention to innovation, significantly improving the quality of human resources as a competitive advantage in facing global competition.
AB - This study aims to reveal the impact of liberalization on innovation, performance, and the level of competition for insurance industry players in Indonesia based on insurance data from 2006 to 2018. The research method used is quantitative with the support of panel data. The analysis technique to explain the findings uses an aggregate model and Threshold Regression analysis. Descriptive and econometric research types were chosen to make it easier to explain the findings. From the results of data analysis using three experimental models, it shows three findings. First, in the aggregate, there is a significant negative relationship between liberalization and innovation. In the Threshold Regression model, a negative impact occurs on companies with low premium income, whereas in high premium income companies, the result is positive. This is due to the availability of resources to large companies to optimize the adaptation of liberalization in terms of innovation. Second, higher liberalization can encourage insurance companies to perform more efficiently and increase net premium income. Third, the negative impact of liberalization on competition shows that the higher the deregulation, the lower the game. These findings indicate that in the aggregate, global insurance financial liberalization has had a significant impact on the development of the insurance industry sector in Indonesia. However, liberalization can be different for groups of small companies and groups of large companies. The expected implication is that the government needs to adopt a long-term policy strategy that can encourage the sustainability of insurance companies: both high-income companies and low-premium-income companies. Besides this, it is hoped that insurance companies pay more attention to innovation, significantly improving the quality of human resources as a competitive advantage in facing global competition.
KW - Competition
KW - Innovation
KW - Insurance
KW - Liberalization
KW - Performance
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U2 - 10.3390/su122410620
DO - 10.3390/su122410620
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098153850
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 25
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 24
M1 - 10620
ER -