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Ambiguity Aversion, Portfolio Choice, and Life Expectancy

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how wealth and aging affect portfolio choices in a life‐cycle model with ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity aversion implies wealthier and older agents are endogenously more optimistic about risky asset returns, relative to poorer/younger agents. As life expectancy grows, old agents become even more optimistic, while young agents
Alistair Macaulay, Chenchuan Shi
wiley   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

The decomposition of disease and disability life expectancies in England 1992-2004 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
ISBN 978-1-905752-23-2 www.cass.city.ac.uk "This paper originated in an independent report for the Department of Health. Any opinions expressed in this paper are my/our own and not necessarily those of my/our employer or anyone else I/we have ...
Mayhew, L., Rasulo, D., Rickayzen, B. D.
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The Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing in the Public Sector

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the United States, occupational licensing is about twice as prevalent in the public sector as in the private sector. However, the influence of occupational regulation for public sector workers and how it compares with that of private sector workers has not been analyzed in detail.
Morris M. Kleiner, Wenchen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Lower glycemic status was associated with pancreatic cancer risk in prediabetes, but not in diabetes: A nationwide cohort study

open access: yesJournal of Diabetes Investigation, EarlyView.
In a nationwide Korean cohort of nearly 3 million adults, higher fasting blood glucose within the prediabetic range—but not glycemic control among people with diabetes—was associated with increased pancreatic cancer risk, highlighting the importance of optimal glucose control in nondiabetic populations.
Dong‐Hoe Koo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Similarities in the mathematics of demography and the theory of interest : an honors thesis (HONRS 499) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
The study of demography is an area of actuarial science that many students do not have an opportunity to study as an undergraduate. The study of a population and its characteristics, particularly its growth, is vital to the actuary.
Pyle, Edward L.
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Financial Time Series Uncertainty: A Review of Probabilistic AI Applications

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Probabilistic machine learning models offer a distinct advantage over traditional deterministic approaches by quantifying both epistemic uncertainty (stemming from limited data or model knowledge) and aleatoric uncertainty (due to inherent randomness in the data), along with full distributional forecasts.
Sivert Eggen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new two-parameter Rayleigh distribution: Statistical properties, actuarial measures, regression analysis, and applications

open access: yesHeliyon
This paper presents a novel two-parameter distribution derived from the Rayleigh distribution, thoroughly investigating its essential mathematical properties.
Ahmed M. Gemeay   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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