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This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial Stagewise Aggregation procedure and Support Vector Machines. Both techniques are convenient for the application to corporate bankruptcy analysis, in terms of calculation of...
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Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....
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-based contracts as a substitute for the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA). The contract we analyze here is a Group Revenue Contract … suggests that this reinsurance tool would eliminate most though not all of the systemic risk associated with this product. The … insurance company would have to purchase supplemental reinsurance to complement the exchange-based product, but the level of …
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This paper investigates the optimal design of weather bonds for reinsurance purposes. The motivation for this task … insurers ask for. Since reinsurance costs constitute a major cost component of insurance premiums, minimizing these costs could …
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occurrence of a naturaldisaster, the reconstruction can be financed with catastrophe bonds(CAT bonds) or reinsurance. This paper … sidesof the contract, the reinsurance and the capital markets, and from the historicaldata. The results demonstrate that …, under specific conditions, thefinancial strategy of the government, a mix of reinsurance and CAT bond, isoptimal in the …
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reinsurance. For insurers, reinsurers and other corporations CAT bonds provide multi year protection without the credit risk … present in reinsurance. For investors CAT bonds offer attractive returns and reduction of portfolio risk, since CAT bonds …
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Essay One examines the asymmetric information problem between primary insurers and reinsurers in the reinsurance … selection exists in the reinsurance market between the affiliated insurers and non-affiliated reinsurers, and even between … reinsurance market.To address the issue of soaring property insurance premiums and coverage availability in states that are …
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. Two different empirical studies are donewith data sets from Australian companies: 1) one study on reinsurance demand;and 2 …
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Kapitalstruktur wählen. Allerdings ist die Kapitalstrukturtheorie trotz intensiver Forschung über fast fünf Jahrzehnte immer noch … Manager im Detail dabei welchen Einfluss auf die Entscheidungen für die Kapitalstruktur haben, ist bisher allerdings empirisch … der Kapitalstruktur eine relevante Rolle spielen. Im Speziellen kann durch die Berücksichtigung der Overconfidence des …
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Kapitalstruktur, die dynamische Steuerung des Unternehmensrisikos und die nicht normale Verteilung der Firmenrendite. Im zweiten …
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