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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

On composite length-biased exponential-Pareto distribution: Properties, simulation, and application in actuarial science [PDF]

, 2023
Moulouk Halima Benchettah, Halim Zeghdoudi, Vinoth Raman   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Completeness and Quality of Data for Children in Medicaid Comprehensive Managed Care Compared to Fee‐for‐Service, 2001–2019

Health Services Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the data in national Medicaid research files for children enrolled in comprehensive managed care (CMC) vs. fee‐for‐service (FFS). Study Setting and Design This observational study utilized inpatient, other services, and pharmacy files in national Medicaid data from 2001 to 2019.
Kristen Lloyd, Sanika Rege, Stephen Crystal, Mark Olfson, Daniel B. Horton, Hillary Samples   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing Class Imbalance Problem in Health Data Classification: Practical Application From an Oversampling Viewpoint

Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
While analyzing health data is important for improving health outcomes, class imbalance in datasets poses major challenges to machine learning classification models.
Edmund Fosu Agyemang, Joseph Agyapong Mensah, Eric Nyarko, Dennis Arku, Benedict Mbeah-Baiden, Enock Opoku, Ezekiel Nii Noye Nortey   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Editorial for special issue on advances in Actuarial Science and quantitative finance. [PDF]

Methodol Comput Appl Probab, 2022
Feng R, Figueroa-López JE, Guo J, Lefèvre C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Faculty Positions in Actuarial Science and/or Mathematical Finance in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University [PDF]

, 2007
Shaoyu Wang
openalex   +2 more sources

Risk Measures [PDF]

The present review of (financial) risk measures, prepared for the Encyclopaedia of Actuarial Science, first distinguishes two conceptions of risk. Risk of the first kind conceives risk as the magnitude of (one- or two-sided) deviations from a target ...
Albrecht, Peter
core  

Longevity impact on life insurers in low interest rate environment [PDF]

, 2018
This paper aims at shedding some light on the interplay between two key risk factors affecting most life insurance products, namely biometric and investment risk. We enhance the pioneering model by Briys and de Varenne, featuring a stylized participating
Bacinello, A. R., Chen, A., Millossovich, P.   +2 more
core  

Index Creation, Information Changes, and Financing*

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how stock index inclusion affects corporate financing using a global sample of 198 index events—primarily new index launches—across 21 markets. Firms added to indexes issue more public debt but not equity, leading to a sustained increase in leverage.
VIDHAN K. GOYAL, DANIEL URBAN, WENTING ZHAO   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Multivariate Copula Models and Fuzzy Interest Rates in Assessing Family Annuity Products

JTAM (Jurnal Teori dan Aplikasi Matematika)
This research explores the development of a reversionary annuity product transformed into a family annuity covering three individuals: husband, wife, and children.
Kurnia Novita Sari, Ady Febrisutisyanto, Randi Deautama, Nursiti Azirah, Pida Mahani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source