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Hultkrantz, Lars; Svensson, Mikael - In: Nordic economic policy review (2022), pp. 114-141

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St.-Amour, Pascal - 2022

$ and a Value of Statistical Life (VSL) close to 6.0M$. It identifies symmetric willingness to pay (WTP) and to accept (WTA …

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Promoting equity through equitable risk tradeoffs

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 14 (2023) 1, pp. 8-34

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Air pollution and willingness to pay for health risk reductions in Egypt : a contingent valuation survey of Greater Cairo and Alexandria households

Ghanem, Samar; Ferrini, Silvia; Di Maria, Corrado - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 172 (2023), pp. 1-14

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Valuing life over the life cycle

St.-Amour, Pascal - In: Journal of health economics 93 (2024), pp. 1-31

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Promoting equity through equitable risk tradeoffs

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022

equity for mortality risk policies should be the symmetric application of the value of a statistical life (VSL) to all groups … in an understanding of the differentials already provided through application of a uniform VSL. Targeting government … and the implicit tradeoff rate ratio relative the average VSL needed to support the redistributive policy. Here we propose …

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Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reduction and Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Morisugi, Masafumi; Sao, Hiroshi; Ohno, Eiji - 2013

Global Warming will cause severe decline of water quality over the world in near future, and mortality risk due to water pollution causing diseases of diarrhea or digestive organs has been one of serious problems especially for Asian developing countries. Generally speaking, implementation of...

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Life insurance demand under health shock risk

Kraft, Holger; Schendel, Lorenz S.; Steffensen, Mogens - 2014

This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk of a health shock that significantly increases his probability of dying. The family can buy term life insurance with realistic features. In particular, the available contracts...

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Longevity risk management and the development of a value-based longevity index

Chang, Yang; Sherris, Michael - In: Risks 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20

The design and development of post-retirement income products require the assessment of longevity risk, as well as a basis for hedging these risks. Most indices for longevity risk are age-period based. We develop and assess a cohort-based value index for life insurers and pension funds to manage...

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Endowment Assurance Products: Effectiveness of Risk-Minimizing Strategies under Model Risk

Chen, An; Mahayni, Antje B. - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 2 (2008) 2

This paper analyzes and discusses the effects of model misspecification associated with both interest rate and mortality risk on the hedging decisions of insurance companies. We consider hedging strategies in different instruments (zero bonds) which are risk- (variance-) minimizing with respect...

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