The lasso is applied in an attempt to automate the loss reserving problem. The regression form contained within the lasso is a GLM, and so that the model has all the versatility of that type of model, but the model selection is automated and the parameter coefficients for selected terms will not...

The paper reviews the development of loss reserving models over the past, classifying them according to an elementary taxonomy. The taxonomic components include (1) the algebraic structure of the model, (2) the form of its parameter estimation, (3) whether or not it is explicitly stochastic, and...