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Auswirkungen der anhaltenden Niedrigzinsen auf das Versicherungswesen

In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 64 (2015) 2, pp. 189-190

Abstract Helmut Gründl discusses in his paper the effects of the present low interest rate environment on the German life insurance industry. By referring to a recent study of the “International Center for Insurance Regulation”, he assesses insolvency probabilities for life insurers with...

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A Bayesian Comparison of Models for Changing Mortalities toward Evaluating Longevity Risk in Japan

Kogure, Atsuyuki; Kitsukawa, Kenji; Kurachi, Yoshiyuki - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 3 (2009) 2

We present a Bayesian approach to compare models for forecasting mortality rates under the framework of the Lee … marginal likelihoods for the model selection. The approach is applied to Japanese male mortality rates from 1970 to 2003. The … results show that the stochastic trend model is most appropriate for forecasting mortality rates both for the normal and the …

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Ritualism, opportunism and corporate disclosure in the New Zealand life insurance industry: field evidence

Adams, Mike - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 10 (1997) 5, pp. 718-734

Drawing a framework from Gibbins et al . (1990), uses information collected from field interviews to isolate those factors which influence the voluntary disclosure practices of New Zealand life insurance companies. Interview evidence suggests that voluntary disclosure is a multi‐dimensional...

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Attribute Priority Arrangement of Cancellations in the Life Insurance Using Rough Set

Elsafty, M.A.; Elkhawaga, Hamed Mohamed - In: International Journal of Customer Relationship … 9 (2018) 4, pp. 16-43

This article presents a method for the rough set which attributes priority arrangement of cancellations in the life insurance. The number of canceled documents on the rise plus they're oscillatory and also the rates of cancellations in constant fluctuation, which requires searching in the...

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Electronic and Traditional Word of Mouth as Trust Antecedents in Life Insurance Buying Decisions

Amron, Amron - In: International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR) 14 (2018) 4, pp. 91-103

This research was conducted to examine the effects of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) and traditional word of mouth (tWOM) on the level of consumers' trust in deciding to buy life insurance products in Indonesia. It involved 430 respondents who were online community members in two of Indonesia's...

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Incorporating Foreign Equities in the Optimal Asset Allocation of an Insurer with the Consideration for Background Risks: Models and Numerical Illustrations

Chang, Shih-Chieh Bill; Tsai, Chenghsien; Hung, Li-Chuan - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 1 (2005) 1

We analyzes the optimal asset allocation problem for life insurers that are required to cope with significant background risks originating from life insurance businesses among a set of stochastic investment opportunities including foreign equities. The insurer is assumed to maximize the expected...

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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Ethical Environments of the U.S. and South Korean Life Insurance Markets

Cooper, Robert W.; Lee, Bong-Joo; Lee, Kyung-Lyong; … - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 1 (2006) 2

Along with competence, ethical behavior is a key component of professionalism. In carrying out their duties, all life insurance professionals encounter a variety of ethical dilemmas as well as a number of factors that can present challenges to their efforts to resolve these dilemmas in an...

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Financial Instability and Life Insurance Demand

Okura, Mahito; Kasuga, Norihiro - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 2 (2007) 1

The purpose of this research is to discuss Japanese financial instability and both private life insurance and public life insurance (Kampo) demand. At the same time, we also consider Kampos main role and what Kampo should be as an insurance service provider in the future. From empirically...

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Insurance effect on economic growth – among economies in various phases of development

Mohy ul din, Sajid; Regupathi, Angappan; Abu-Bakar, Arpah - In: Review of International Business and Strategy 27 (2017) 4, pp. 501-519

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between insurance and economic growth for six (developed, emerging and developing) countries over the period of 1980 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach The study applies panel auto-regressive distributed lagged (PMG/ARDL) method...

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Mobilization advances life insurance’s march : Keeping the customer satisfied

In: Strategic Direction 20 (2004) 1, pp. 24-26

New technology shows human beings at their most innovative. As soon as a development is no longer adequate to serve a particular purpose, a refinement made possible by technology will bridge the gap. In the life assurance industry, e‐business implementation has played a major role in assisting...

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