We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …

We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables, using the example of age-specific mortality in the … their dynamics jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a … for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …

may either choose to receive annuity payouts, calculated based on a mortality table agreed to at contract inception, or … receive the accumulated capital as a lump sum. Considering stochastic mortality improvements, such an option could be of … substantial value. Whenever mortality improves less than originally expected, the policyholder will choose the lump sum and buy an …

Motivated by a recent demographic study establishing a link between macroeconomic fluctuations and the mortality index … company. Liabilities in our stochastic simulation framework are driven by a GDP-linked variant of the Lee-Carter mortality … stochastic process. Our results show that insolvency probabilities are significantly higher when the reaction of mortality rates …

settler mortality instrument of Acemoglu et al. (2001) and father's education's instrument used by Hoogerheide et al. (2012a …