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A simple formula for non-discriminatory insurance pricing is introduced. This formula is based on the assumption that … certain individual (discriminatory) policyholder information is not allowed to be used for insurance pricing. The suggested …
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We examine the long run performance of Mamp;A transactions in the property-liability insurance industry. We …
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developed an optimal audit policy for the scoring methodology. Our application is meant for the audit of insurance fraud but can … obtained with data from a large European insurance company. First, we are able to compute a critical suspicion index for fraud …
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beginning of modern economic analysis of insurance activity. This chapter reviews the main theoretical and empirical … contributions in insurance economics since that time. The review begins with the role of utility, risk, and risk aversion in the … insurance literature and then summarizes work on the demand for insurance, insurance and resource allocation, moral hazard, and …
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Decision-makers who usually face model/parameter risk may prefer to act prudently by identifying optimal contracts that are robust to such sources of uncertainty. In this paper, we tackle this issue under a finite uncertainty set that contains a number of probability models that are candidates...
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Changes in mortality rates have an impact on the life insurance industry, the financial sector (as a significant …. Thus, the pricing of financial, pension and insurance products that are contingent upon survival or death and which is … life insurance), and the actuarial reserve. Finally, several tables and figures illustrate the main findings of this paper …
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requirements, focused on banks as well as insurance sector, have been developed. These regulatory are concentrated essentially on … insurance industry. These requirements have influenced the asset allocation issue in insurance industry. This section is …
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Direct compensation or the direct reimbursement scheme is an indemnity insurance method that many European and American … countries use to manage motor liability claims in which the driver that suffers an accident is paid by his/her insurance company …
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Generalized linear models have the important property of providing unbiased estimates on a portfolio level. This implies that generalized linear models manage to provide accurate prices on a portfolio level. On the other hand, neural networks may provide very accurate prices on an individual...
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This paper identifies the risk and risk-adjusted return determinants of US insurers. We find that the significant firm-specific determinants for risk and risk-adjusted return vary slightly for the risk proxy and risk-adjusted return proxy used, and the types of insurers. We find that in general,...
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