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Gender and Extended Actuarial Functions in Pension Insurance [PDF]

open access: yesStatistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2012
This paper brings analysis of the impact of a ban on the use of gender in insurance, with special stress on pension annuity, according to the requirements of the European Court of Justice. The paper brings a state-of-theart overview of known and extended
Jana Špirková, Mária Spišiaková
doaj  

Optimal Selection of the Diesel Generators Supplying a Ship Electric Power System

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
It is very common for ships to have electric power systems comprised of generators of the same type. This uniformity allows for easier and lower-cost maintenance.
Panayiotis Michalopoulos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endogenous coalition formation in policy debates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political actors form coalitions around their joint normative beliefs in order to influence the policy process on contentious issues such as climate change or population aging. Policy process theory maintains that learning within and across coalitions is a central predictor of policy change but has yet to explain how policy learning works ...
Philip Leifeld, Laurence Brandenberger
wiley   +1 more source

The Réseau Express Métropolitain as an Evolution of the Public‐Private Partnership

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This research note explores the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) as an exploratory case of partnership for public infrastructure procurement. It seeks to determine whether the REM represents an evolution of the P3 model that has significance for public governance, particularly as it relates to the delivery of public infrastructure. Our study
Michael A. O'Neill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience and learning from insurance firms: Dataset on British long-term insurance market performance

open access: yesData in Brief, 2018
This data article revealed data about the UK long-term insurance market performance for over a decade. The data was acquired from the ABI and contains important trading results (i.e. premiums generated) across different types of long-term insurance.
Oluwasoye P. Mafimisebi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

Annuities for an ageing world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Substantial research attention has been devoted to the pension accumulation process, whereby employees and those advising them work to accumulate funds for retirement.
Mitchell, Olivia S., McCarthy, David
core  

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj  

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