mortality, including longevity selection, mortality improvements, and unexpected systematic shocks. Using longitudinal micro … risk or the impact of mortality improvements …

Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that …

After years of general progress in reducing Australia's road death toll, road deaths increased in 2015 and 2016 … in late 2014. This study uses monthly data to model the number of road deaths in Australia. Our estimates suggest that … low fuel prices have contributed to knocking Australia off track for meeting its 2020 road safety target. The paper also …

Heterogeneity in mortality rates is known to exist in populations, undermining the use of age and sex as the only … on an assumption that lives will self select and price the longevity risk with an annuity mortality table that assumes … in population mortality is required. This paper applies well established frailty models and more recently developed …

the government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia has much better data on drug utilization than most other …

Recently we developed a new framework in Hirz et al. (2015) to model stochastic mortality using extended CreditRisk … methodology which is very different from traditional time series methods used for mortality modelling previously. In this … portfolios or between death events in population. This framework can be used to construct life tables based on mortality rate …

The ageing of Australia's population and the maturing of the Australian Superannuation Guarantee Levy system means that … unlikely a sustainable lifetime annuity market will develop in Australia …

This paper proposes a method of deriving a quality indicator for hospitals using mortality outcome measures. The method … aggregates any number of mortality outcome measures observed over several years into a single indicator. We begin with the … supposition that there exists an abstract quality index which drives all observed mortality outcomes in each hospital. This …