We consider an entrepreneur looking for external financing who may face two types of independent financial risks: a risk associated with its activity and a risk associated with an environmental accident. Using a costly state verification model, we characterize the optimal two-period financial...

The objective of this paper is to present the role and importance of internal control systems in good risk management practice, with a particular emphasis on the internal audit and compliance functions within such a framwork. Our focus is on the Life and Health Insurance industry in Canada.

There are numerous links, both direct and indirect, betwwen real estate markets and insurance products. One of the diract links that has been the focus of much attention recently in the US is homeowners insurance, especially in hazard prone areas. Another direct link not receiving as much...

This paper proposes bonus-malus systems for fleets of vehicules, by using the individual characteristics of both the vehicules and the carriers.

The goal of this paper id to test whether the threat of regulating (or more stringent regulation of) automobile liability insurance as portrayed in the population and industry press induces insurers to change the way they price their policies.

Le but de cette recherche etait d'evaluer l'effet de changement de tarification de 1992 sur la securite routiere au Quebec. Nos resultats indiquent que le changement de tarification a reduit les nombres d'infractions et les nombres d'accidents, deux variables qui mesurent directement la non...

Le processus de "gentrification"que traversent les arrondissements Plateau Mont-Royal-Centre Sud et Sud-Ouest, ainsi que la ville de Verdun s'accompagne d'une hausse des incendies, en particulier des incendies criminels. Les programmes publics qui favorisesnt le renouveau urbain dans certains...

It is well known that modern governments are unwilling to use poll taxes because it corresponds to political suicide. Still, poll taxes are allegedly the most efficient form of taxation. Building on Eaton and Rosen (1980) and Peck (1989), the goal of this paper is to show a case where an excise...

This paper deals with the economic and technical impact of the insurance constraint on the optimal insurance contracts. We show that restricting the set of admissible indemnity fucntions to those that do not allow fo indemnities larger than the damage does not invalidate the Pareto-optimality of...

The goal of this study is to develop a tool to aid insurance company adjusters in their decision making and to ensure that they are better equipped to fight fraud.