We propose a model for stock price dynamics that explicitly incorporates random waiting times between trades, also known as duration, and show how option prices can be calculated using this model. We use ultra-high-frequency data for blue-chip companies to motivate a particular choice of...

Las compañías aseguradoras deben calcular la cuantía de las reservas y la dotación de provisiones para hacer frente al pago de siniestros que o bien no han sido comunicados o bien no han sido cerrados. En este trabajo, se aplica el método Chain-Ladder para la estimación puntual de las...

In order to handle past and future liability taken by insurance contracts concluded, any insurance company must constitute and maintain technical reserves. Substantiating technical reserves is done through actuarial methods and its over-evaluation or under-evaluation influence solvency and...

This paper introduces a novel approach to making inference about the regression parameters in the accelerated failure time (AFT) model for current status and interval censored data. The estimator is constructed by inverting a Wald type test for testing a null proportional hazards model. A...

In the analysis of dependence of bivariate correlated failure time data, a popular model is a gamma frailty model proposed by Clayton and Oakes. An alternative approach is using a Plackett distribution, whose dependence parameter has a very appealing odds ratio interpretation for dependence...

A natural choice of time scale for analyzing recurrent event data is the ``gap" (or soujourn) time between successive events. In many situations it is reasonable to assume correlation exists between the successive events experienced by a given subject. This paper looks at the problem of...

In this paper, we discuss Bayesian inference of unobserved heterogeneity for unemployment duration data in the presence of right and interval-censoring, and non-proportionality. We employ accelerated failure time models with three different distributional assumptions: log-logistic, log-normal,...