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Mortality forecasting in Colombia from abridged life tables by sex
Genus, 2018 Background An adequate forecasting model of mortality that allows an analysis of different population changes is a topic of interest for countries in demographic transition.
Gisou Diaz +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular supply chain management (CSCM) practices are seen as a solution for addressing society's many significant environmental challenges. Although existing studies recognise the importance of reverse engineering in combating poverty, there is limited knowledge about its effectiveness in shaping CSCM practices to address climate change and ...
Yaw Agyabeng‐Mensah +2 more
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DemografieThis article discusses the use of the Lee-Carter model, one of the most widely used methods for mortality forecasting. It also discusses its modified versions, namely the cohort and coherent variants, which were developed to improve the forecast accuracy
David Morávek
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Investigating Mortality Uncertainty Using the Block Bootstrap
Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2010 This paper proposes a block bootstrap method for measuring mortality risk under the Lee-Carter model framework. In order to take account of all sources of risk (the process risk, the parameter risk, and the model risk) properly, a block bootstrap is ...
Xiaoming Liu, W. John Braun
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Race and life expectancy in the USA in the Great Depression
Genus, 2019 Prior work has highlighted increases in life expectancy in the USA during the Great Depression. This contradicts the tenet that life expectancy is positively correlated with human welfare, but it coheres with recent literature on mortality and recessions.
Tim A. Bruckner +3 more
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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Supply Chain Sustainability: A Systematic Literature Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In increasingly volatile global markets, firms must cultivate entrepreneurial and adaptive capabilities to sustain competitiveness and advance sustainability objectives. This study systematically reviews the intersection of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), Supply Chain Management (SCM) practices, and sustainability performance through the ...
Olivia Finnerty +4 more
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Risks, 2017 In this study we develop a multi-factor extension of the family of Lee-Carter stochastic mortality models. We build upon the time, period and cohort stochastic model structure to extend it to include exogenous observable demographic features that can be ...
Dorota Toczydlowska +3 more
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Mortality forecasting with lee-carter model.
, 2021 New models of mortality forecasting are being developed or existing ones are being modified, but theLee-Carter model remains the most popular for many years. In this work, we will apply this model forLithuania, Poland and Russia mortality data. The paper
Rinkūnas, Ugnius,
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CEO Compensation and the ESG Activities of Compensation Peers
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between executive compensation at focal firms and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of compensation peer (CP) firms. Despite the growing integration of ESG metrics into executive compensation design, and the mandatory disclosure of CP groups, no prior research has examined ...
Jamshed Iqbal +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability is widely framed as strategic, yet its relationship with financial brand value remains contested. We explain why prior research reports divergent results by distinguishing between activity‐based ESG metrics and customer perception‐based sustainability metrics and by theorising how each activates different value‐creation ...
Gabriela Salinas, Carmen Abril
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