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Abstract Local and Indigenous Peoples steward and protect a significant proportion of biologically diverse ecosystems globally. This fact is increasingly acknowledged by researchers and international organizations, offering both opportunities and challenges at the intersection of Indigenous and western knowledge production in the context of ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong +5 more
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International practice of the bonus-malus system
Purpose of the research – evaluation of the eff ectiveness of the "bonus-malus" in the class of compulsory insurance of civil liability of vehicle owners and the identification of the conceptual foundations of compulsory insurance of civil liability inherent in the experience of foreign countries, as well as the development of proposals to improve ...
A. O. Bazarbayev +2 more
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Bonus-Malus System Using Finite Mixture Models
There is a vast literature on Bonus-Malus System (BMS), in which a policyholders responsible for positive claims will be penalised by a malus and the policyholders who had no claim will be rewarded by a bonus. In this paper, we present an optimal BMS using finite mixture models.
Saeed MohammadPour +2 more
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Abstract While much work has looked at how governments responded to the Corona pandemic, little consideration has been given to how the crisis affected party competition and what positions political actors took during this period. How were political actors' positions on COVID‐19 portrayed in daily newspapers? And how can we explain these patterns?
Katja Demler
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Collusion Between Retailers and Customers: The Case of Insurance Fraud in Taiwan
This study analyzes how the insurance distribution channel can affect insurance fraud. It uses econometric models that confirm the existence of claim manipulation as a form of insurance fraud, whereby policyholders circumvent the bonus–malus system and ...
Pierre Picard +2 more
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Experiments with a novel CCD stellar polarimeter [PDF]
Experiments and observations have been undertaken with "bread-board" equipment to explore the potential of a "ring" stellar polarimeter with a CCD camera, rather than photographic plates used in Treanor's (1968) original instrument.
Clarke +6 more
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A Comparison of Several Bonus Malus Systems
AbstractThe paper deals with the automobile third party liability insurance and several bonus malus system are compared in it on the basis of Loimaranta efficiency. Very important task for actuary is creating rating system that will fairly distributed the burden of claims among policyholders. For these purposes, most insurance companies use generalized
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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany [PDF]
This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income ...
Beblo, Miriam +2 more
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Optimal claim behaviour for third-party liability insurances with perfect information [PDF]
In this paper we analyse the optimal claim behaviour of a policy holder having a third-party liability insurance in which one is allowed to decide at the end of an insurance year which damages occurred during that year should be claimed.
Dellaert, N.P. +2 more
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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany [PDF]
This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income ...
Beblo, Miriam +2 more
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