Insurance companies can leverage the regulatory requirement of a "Risk Management Own Risk and Solvency Assessment" (RMORSA) to improve risk-to-reward decision-making in general, and business planning in particular. This paper profiles several RMORSA-based improvements and explains how those...

The authors of the article point out that the theory of economics has failed to yield a solid theoretical background in such critical situations as the transformational period of post-communist economies and the period of the current financial and economic crisis. While classical liberal or...

In this paper we focus on optimal insurance contracts when the insured person is forced to bear a risk of wrong estimation of his loos made by the insurer. We extend the scope of the existing models by taking simultaneously into account non-linear administrative costs and prudence.

We assess the ability of different risk profiling measures to predict risk taking along a multi-stage decision process. The latter involves decisions under ambiguity, decisions under risk, decisions after gaining experience and decisions after receiving outcome information on previous decisions....

It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...