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Point and interval forecasts of age-specific life expectancies: A model averaging approach

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2012
BACKGROUND Any improvement in the forecast accuracy of life expectancy would be beneficial forpolicy decision regarding the allocation of current and future resources.
Han Lin Shang
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Hierarchical Lee-Carter model estimation through data cloning applied to demographically linked countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Some groups of countries are connected not only economically, but also social and even demographically. This last fact can be exploited when trying to forecast the death rates of their populations. In this paper we propose a hierarchical specification of
Albarrán Lozano, Irene   +3 more
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Mathematical Models for the Longevity Risk in the Annuity Market [PDF]

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The markets for longevity derivatives are starting to develop. In last years, many companies have closed the defined benefit retirement plans that they used to offer to their employees. In addition, some governments increased the retirement age by 2 or 5
Iulian MIRCEA
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Bayesian Demographic Modeling and Forecasting: An Application to U.S. Mortality [PDF]

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We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U.S., building on the Lee-Carter approach and extending it in several dimensions.
Samad Sarferaz, Wolfgang Reichmuth
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Adoption of projected mortality table for the Slovenian market using the Poisson log-bilinear model to test the minimum standard for valuing life annuities [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic and Business Review, 2015
With the introduction of Solvency II a consistent market approach to the valuation of insurance assets and liabilities is required. For the best estimate of life annuity provisions one should estimate the longevity risk of the insured population in ...
Darko Medved   +3 more
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A unified approach to mortality modelling using state-space framework: characterisation, identification, estimation and forecasting

open access: yes, 2016
This paper explores and develops alternative statistical representations and estimation approaches for dynamic mortality models. The framework we adopt is to reinterpret popular mortality models such as the Lee-Carter class of models in a general state ...
Fung, Man Chung   +2 more
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A Comparison between General Population Mortality and Life Tables for Insurance in Mexico under Gender Proportion Inequality || Una comparación entre la mortalidad de la población general y las tablas de vida de los seguros en México ante porcentajes desiguales de género [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa, 2013
We model the mortality behavior of the general population in Mexico using data from 1990 to 2009 and compare it to the mortality assumed in the tables used in Mexico for insured lives.
Ornelas, Arelly, Guillén, Montserrat
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The role of longevity risk in Hungary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper, I analyze the role of longevity risk in Hungary in the public pension system and the life annuity segment of the life insurance market, which are two primary financial sectors of relevance to this special type of actuarial risk, using ...
Vékás, Péter
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Research on time factor prediction in the Lee-Carter model—the combined model based on Lp-norm

open access: yesResearch in Statistics
For longevity risk, this paper focuses on accurately predicting mortality rates and proposes an improved time-factor prediction model to enhance the accuracy of mortality rate forecasting.
Xueru Yang, Yue Hu, Wei Zhang, Kuan Xu
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