This paper provides confidence intervals for the probability of bankruptcy through the control of financial accounting variables. Our analysis differs in several aspects from standard bankruptcy techniques studied in previous studies. This bankruptcy literature generally provides classification...

This paper examines the effect of wealth on the demand for deductibles both theoretically and empirically for the case of flood insurance. Our study provides a synthesis and empirical examination of the economic theory of deductibles and its relationship with wealth. Previous articles have not...

This paper presents an optimization model for maximizing the insurer’s underwriting profits in any particular line of insurance at a point in time. We propose the use of mathematical programming to maximize underwriting profits when the objective function is expressed as a nonlinear convex...