With the gradual deepening of aging, the medical and pension problems of the half-disabled and disabled elderly will become increasingly prominent. Policymakers, academics, and the public at large shed extensive concerns about the cost of aging societies. Although long-term care (LTC) insurance...

The mobile Internet has profoundly changed people's lifestyles. While the contribution of the Internet sales strategy to the sales performance of physical goods has been well studied in the retailing and marketing fields, there are few academic researches investigating the impact of the mobile...

The topic of insolvency risk in connection with life insurance companies has recently attracted a great deal of attention. In this paper, the question is investigated of how the value of the equity and of the liability of a life insurance company are affected by the default risk and the choice...

This paper compares two different types of private retirement plans from the perspective of a representative beneficiary: a defined benefit (DB) and a defined contribution (DC) plan. While salary risk is the main common risk factor in DB and DC pension plans, one of the key differences is that...