Basic model, Measurement Approaches, Other major issues; Solvency II, Timing and other projects...

The important distinguishing characteristics of insurance contracts are quite relevant to much of the discussion regarding insurance standards for insurance contracts.

The preliminary views of the Steering Committee in its Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) indicate that there has been significant disagreement within the Steering Committee as to whether to reflect expected investment margins in estimates of future cash flows related to the valuation of...

The IASC Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) mentions in a number of places the concept of market expectations regarding the expected value and corresponding adjustments for risk associated with the experience factors used in measuring the value of the liabilities of insurance contracts....

Three elements mentioned in paragraphs 191 and 192 of the IASC Insurance Issues Paper (the IASC Paper) provide an appropriate framework to examine the issue of the determination of the proper period over which the liability of an insurance contract (this does not apply to the liability for...

In this paper we analyze the attractiveness of a so called mortality swap, which combines an immediate annuity and a whole life insurance contract, in the German insurance market. The analysis follows a methodology introduced by Charupat and Milevsky (2001). Using theoretical products based on...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, in die ökonomische Analyse des Versicherungsbetrugs einzuführenund einige grundlegende Determinanten für vertragswidriges Verhalten von Versicherungsnehmern aufzuzeigen. Dazu werden zunächst die strategischen Entscheidungsprobleme von Versicherungsneh-mern und...

Kahneman/Tversky 1979 haben das theoretische Konstrukt der Probabilistic Insurance Kontrakte in die Literatur eingeführt. Hiermit werden Versicherungsverträge bezeichnet, deren Erfüllung imLeistungsfalle aufgrund einer möglichen Insolvenz des Versicherungsunternehmens nicht gewährleistet...

Microfinance continues to play an ever increasing role in approaches topoverty alleviation around the world. Yet despite the attention paid tomicrofinance, the design of credit contracts for small uncollateralized loansremains a bit of a mystery. From its inception, microfinance generated agreat...