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Indifference fee rate for variable annuities

Chevalier, Etienne; Lim, Thomas; Roméro, Ricardo Romo - HAL - 2014

In this paper, we work on indifference valuation of variable annuities and give a computation method for indifference fees. We focus on the guaranteed minimum death benefits and the guaranteed minimum living benefits and allow the policyholder to make withdrawals. We assume that the fees are...

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Max-Min optimization problem for Variable Annuities pricing

Blanchet-Scalliet, Christophette; Chevalier, Etienne; … - HAL - 2014

We study the valuation of variable annuities for an insurer. We concentrate on two types of these contracts that are the guaranteed minimum death benefits and the guaranteed minimum living benefits ones and that allow the insured to withdraw money from the associated account. As for many...

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JOINT PRODUCTION WITHOUT FREE DISPOSAL: SUSTAINABLE ACTIVITY AND UNSUPPORTABLE PROCESSES

O'Connor, Martin; Andrew, Robbie - HAL - 2010

Investigations of long-run sustainability of joint ecological-economic systems highlight the pertinence of reconsidering "free disposal" assumptions that underpin Sraffian and von Neumann approaches to value and growth theory. We investigate joint-production time-paths for square systems A and B...

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Growth, Environment and Uncertain Future Preferences

Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2004

addressing here is: should uncertainty about future preferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment … environment than ours, but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability between consumption and environmental … (impatience, intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of the environment, relative preference for the …

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A note on the consequences of an endogenous discounting depending on the environmental quality

Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2007

the use of environmental services and so is a direct cause of environmental degradation. The environment is valued both as … marginal discount rate allows us to avoid the depletion of the environment. …

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The optimal carbon sequestration in agricultural soils : does the dynamics of the physical process matter ?

Ragot, Lionel; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2006

The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...

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SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER POLLUTION IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY OPTIONS

Adenuga, Ade; Ogujiuba, Kanayo; Ohuche, Friday - EconWPA - 2005

Severe environmental degradation appears to be threatening the long-term development prospects of countries all over the world, particularly the developing ones such as Nigeria. The paper reviews relevant literature and examines the process of environmental degradation via water pollution in...

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