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Continuous Chain Ladder: Reformulating and generalizing a classical insurance problem [PDF]
, 2013 The single most important number in the accounts of a non-life insurance company is likely to be the estimate of the outlying liabilities. Since non-life insurance is a major part of our financial industry (amounting to up to 5% of BNP in western ...
Martinez-Miranda, M. D. +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A lack of standard approaches for testing and reporting the performance of metal halide perovskites and organic semiconductor radiation detectors has resulted in inconsistent interpretation of performance parameters, impeding progress in the field. This Perspective recommends key metrics and experimental details, which are suggested for reporting in ...
Jessie A. Posar +8 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review explores the evolving role of microneedle systems in psoriasis management, highlighting their potential for enhanced drug delivery, diagnosis, and disease monitoring. It also discusses unmet clinical needs for psoriasis management and technical challenges, while outlining strategic directions to advance microneedle integration into routine ...
Fatma Moawad +3 more
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Efficiency and scale economies in the Japanese non-life insurance industry
International Journal of Financial Services Management, 2012 This paper studies efficiency and scale economies in the Japanese non-life insurance industry using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with inclusion of input prices in the model. Japanese non-life insurers generally score quite high in technical efficiency but low in allocative efficiency, which implies that they are not good at using the best cost ...
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Analysing the Determinants of Credit Risk for General Insurance Firms in the UK [PDF]
, 2016 This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK. Compared to earlier studies, it uses a much larger sample including 30 years of data for 515 firms, and also considers a much wider ...
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria +2 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Detecting proteins secreted by a single cell while retaining its viability remains challenging. A particles‐in‐particle (PiPs) system made by co‐encapsulating barcoded microparticles (BMPs) with a single cell inside an alginate hydrogel particle is introduced.
Félix Lussier +10 more
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JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2014 This paper examines the relationship between profitability, reinsurance and leverage level of private sector non-life stock insurers of Pakistan. The value and significance of reinsurance and leverage levels is analyzed by observing their nature and ...
Hafiza Tahoora Iqbal +2 more
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THE 2008-2009 GLOBAL CRISIS: IMPACT ON BANKING AND INSURANCE [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2022 This paper studies the impact of the 2008-2009 global crisis on banking and insurance industry, using relevant variables obtained from the Global Financial Development Database, including bank private credit, deposit money bank assets, deposit money ...
HALIL D. KAYA, ENGKU N. ENGKUCHIK
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International Journal of Financial Studies, 2022 This paper attempted to apply an EVT-based pairwise copula method for modelling risk interaction between foreign exchange rates and equity indices of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and to model the dependence structure of the underlying assets ...
Joel Hinaunye Eita +1 more
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Ultrasound in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Applications, and Emerging Opportunities
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.As healthcare moves toward decentralization, ultrasound technologies are evolving from strictly imaging tools in clinical settings into versatile diagnostic and therapeutic platforms, with growing roles addressing women's health needs. This review highlights how ultrasound's underlying physical mechanisms can be harnessed to reduce disparities in women'
Sarah B. Ornellas +7 more
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