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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

Investigating the market potential for customised long term care insurance products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Previous economic research into long-term care (LTC) has mainly been focussed on one issue: the reasons why the LTC insurance market has not been successful.
Karlsson, M.   +2 more
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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

Evaluating key predictors of breast cancer through survival: a comparison of AFT frailty models with LASSO, ridge, and elastic net regularization

open access: yesBMC Cancer
Background Frailty models are extensively utilized in survival analysis to address unobserved heterogeneity among individuals. However, selecting the most robust model for survival prediction, especially in the context of high-dimensional data, continues
Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Breaking the Mortality Curve: Investment-Driven Acceleration in Life Expectancy and Insurance Innovation

open access: yesRisks
Capital investment in longevity science—research targeting the biological processes of aging through interventions like cellular reprogramming, AI-driven drug discovery, and biological age monitoring—may create significant divergence between traditional ...
David M. Dror
doaj   +1 more source

The Health Insurance Provisions of the 2009 Congressional Health Reform Bills: Implications for Coverage, Affordability, and Costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Analyzes the House and Senate healthcare reform bills for the number of people likely to gain coverage and the implications for federal financing, families' insurance premium and out-of-pocket costs, employers, and the potential for price ...
Jennifer L. Nicholson   +4 more
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Broken Telephone Communication

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The existing literature on corporate voluntary disclosures largely focuses on studying direct information transfers from publicly traded firms to capital market investors, ignoring the presence of information intermediaries (such as auditors, audit committees, appraisers, actuaries, and legal experts) in the communication process.
Eti Einhorn
wiley   +1 more source

Gender convergence in human survival and the postponement of death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It has been a long accepted demographic maxim that females outlive males. Using data for England and Wales, we show that life expectancy at age 30 is converging and continuation of this long-term trend suggests it could reach parity in 2030.
Mayhew, L., Smith, D.
core   +1 more source

Industrial Policy in Disguise: The French Treasury and the Reregulation of the European Insurance Sector

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In December 2023, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement to revise the Solvency II Directive, aiming to unlock €100 billion in private investment through a series of deregulatory measures. This marks a significant departure from the stringent insurance supervision framework that has shaped European policy since the ...
Cyril Benoît
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Hierarchical/Multilevel Models and Quality of Reporting (2010–2020): A Systematic Review

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal
Introduction. Multilevel models have gained immense popularity across almost every discipline due to the presence of hierarchy in most data and phenomena.
Killian Asampana Asosega   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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