Investigating of Factors Affecting on Life Insurance Demand in Iran with Emphasis on Organizational Internal and External Quantitative Factors

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting the life insurance demand of insurance companies in Iran. In this regard, eight factors include four intra-organizational quantitative factors (number of branches and agents, financial enrichment, average premium rate and payback loss), and four external factors (GDP, average interest rate, inflation rate, and stock market returns) Has been identified and investigated their effect on the insurance demand of insurance companies using multivariate regression model. This regression model was estimated using the data of 20 insurance companies during the year’s 2010 to 2016 using panel data with constant effects. The results of the model estimation indicate that among of internal organization factors, all factors, except the number of branches and agents, have a significant effect on the life insurance demands of insurance companies, so that the payback loss and financial empowerment have a positive and average premium rate has a negative effect on life insurance demand of insurance companies. In addition, all of the external organization quantitative factors have a significant effect on the life insurance demand of companies, so that GDP has a positive effect and interest rate, inflation rate and stock return rate have a negative effect on the life insurance demand of insurance companies.