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2000
Data Quality (general or introductory); Written by a world expert in data resources, Data Resource Quality features the ten most fundamental and frequently exhibited bad habits that contribute to poor data quality, and presents the strategies and best practices for effective solutions.
2000
The country's workers' compensation system has faced crises before. It's about to face another unless states reduce their dependence on rating bureaus and develop their own improved and more timely databases to provide early warning of changes in the cost cycles and to better manage future cost increases.
2000
Credibility weighting is helpful in many insurance applications where sparse data crave information from other sources of data. In this paper we aim at estimating a hazard curve using the nonparametric kernel method, where a credibility weighting principle is used locally, so that areas of sparse data for one subgroup can be alleviated by available information from other subgroups.
2000
Cost/Benefit Analysis of Alternative Investment Strategies Using Dynamic Financial Analysis Tools: A
The focus of the 2000 Call for Papers, as put forth by the Casualty Actuarial Society’s Committee on Dynamic Financial Analysis, is the “evaluation of strategic alternatives and presentations of conclusions.” This paper presents such a study. The paper is laid out in much the same way the analysis was performed, as a journey of discovery, in which one set of conclusions would lead to another set of questions and so on and so forth.
2000
Effective in 2001, statutory accounting rules will change as a result of the NAIC's (National Association of Insurance Commissioner's) "codification" project. One of these changes will be the creation of a new statutory reserve requirement for property/casualty companies, the required calculation of a "premium deficient, reserve". Although these reserves have been required under US.
2000
This paper will discuss the use of a Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) model to assist a client company in determining the total capital required to support its underwriting activities, and the portion of that total required capital allocated to each operating
division. It will discuss issues related to risk measures, capital adequacy standards, and allocation techniques.
2000
No doubt, technology will irreversibly change the insurance industry and all related professions from underwriting to marketing to actuarial. Sure enough, there are (or will be) multiple publications that speculate on how good and profound these changes will be and try to describe bright digital future of the insurance industry.
2000
The author of Against the Gods takes a fresh look at the nature of risk, offering alternatives to the limited perspective of volatility and shedding new light on the function of risk management in the world of financial services.
2000
Winter 2000, Ratemaking Papers and Health and Managed Care Call Papers These files are in Portable Document Format (PDF), you will need to download the Acrobat Reader to view the articles. Table of Contents Download Entire Volume Ratemaking Discussion Papers
2000
Fall 2000, Including the Reserving Call Papers These files are in Portable Document Format (PDF), you will need to download the Acrobat Reader to view the articles. Table of Contents Download Entire Volume Reserving Call Papers
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Summer 2000, Dynamic Financial Analysis Call Papers These files are in Portable Document Format (PDF), you will need to download the Acrobat Reader to view the articles. Table of Contents Download Entire Volume Dynamic Financial Analysis Call Papers
2000
Kahneman/Tversky 1979 introduced the notion of so-called probabilistic insurance contracts. These are insurance policies involving a small probability that the consumer is not reimbursed because of a possible default of the insurance company.
2000
Catastrophe bonds, the payouts of which are tied to the occurrence of natural disasters, offer insurers and corporate entities the ability to hedge events that could otherwise impair their operations to the point of insolvency. At the same time, cat bonds offer investors a unique opportunity to enhance their portfolios with an asset that provides a high-yielding return that is uncorrelated with the market.
2000
Flood damages that occur worldwide remain largely uninsured losses despite the efforts of governmental programs that in many cases make insurance available at below fair market cost. The current study focuses on the financial experience of the United States' National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) from 1983 through 1993 to examine the hypothetical determinants of the flood insurance purchasing decision.
2000
Property claim services (PCS) provides indices for losses resulting from catastrophic events in the US. In this paper, we study these indices and take a closer look at distributions underlying insurance claims. Surprisingly, the lognormal distribution seems to give a better fit than the Paretian one. Moreover, lagged autocorrelation study reveals a mean-reverting structure of indices returns.
2000
This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work and on the trade-off between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor (SDF) that prices all assets in the economy.
2000
This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work, and on the tradeoff between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor (SDF) that prices all assets in the economy.
