The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice

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The Chinese Insurance Market: Estimating its Long-Term Growth and Size

Wei Zheng, Yongdong Liu and Gerry Dickinson

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Table 1. Estimates of world life and non-life insurance growth model

  Life insurance Non-life insurance
C 1 24.37*** (16.59)35.45*** (47.53)
C 2 111.03*** (12.83)62.72*** (19.93)
C 3 0.8671*** (68.14)0.8276*** (51.46)
   
R 2 0.53620.8115
Adjusted-R 2 0.53560.8112
Number of observations2,0522,071
GDP per capita at the inflexion (1990 US$)10,6353,015
Maximum income elasticity of premium1.7541.425
GDP per capita at the maximum elasticity (1990 US$)12,4387,531

  Note: Robust t-statistics is in parentheses. The term of "***" means that the level of significance is 1 percent.

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