Repeat sales indices are commonly used to estimate the trend in house prices. Two assumptions are made when estimating these indices: 1) that the house characteristics are unchanged between observed sales and 2) that the underlying shadow prices for those attributes are constant or change...

This paper explores the impact of capital adequacy requirements on the investment behavior of insurance companies from a new perspective. We specifically investigate one important feature of Risk-Based Capital (RBC) system, the square root rule in aggregating risk categories. We show that the...