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Bias in Peak Flood Discharges: Are Our Bridges and Culverts Undersized?
River Research and Applications, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 929-942, May 2026.ABSTRACT Reliable methods for peak discharge predictions at ungaged locations are required for infrastructure design and floodplain management. For decades, a standard practice in the United States has been to utilize US Geological Survey regional regression equations (StreamStats) as a singular method. However, implementation of multiple methods, such
Steven E. Yochum, Tyler Wible
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Forecasting The Pricing Kernel of IBNR Claims Development In Property-Casualty Insurance [PDF]
A new method of forecasting the pricing kernel, i.e., stochastic claim inflation or link ratio function, of incurred but not reported (IBNR) claims (in property casualty insurance) from residuals in a dynamic claims forecast model is presented. We employ
Cadogan, Godfrey
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Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 307-323, May 2026.ABSTRACT We study the effect of royal status—a historically rooted legal privilege enjoyed by hereditary monarchs and their families—on human longevity, a proxy of individuals' health capital. We disentangle the effect of royal status that encompassed serving as heads of state from that of other royal family members and compare it to their contemporary
Alberto Batinti +2 more
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Flexible Rate Filing Insurance Rate Regulation as Alternative to Incentive Incompatibility in Prior-Approval [PDF]
Competition can be an effective regulator of rates in property-casualty insurance markets. While many states have moved to file-and-use or use-and-file provisions, some have adopted flexible rate-filing regulations (flex-rating) as a means of combining ...
Strauss, Jason
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Modeling the Inter-Arrival Time Between Severe Storms in the United States Using Finite Mixtures
RisksWhen inter-arrival times between events follow an exponential distribution, this implies a Poisson frequency of events, as both models assume events occur independently and at a constant average rate. However, these assumptions are often violated in real-
Ilana Vinnik, Tatjana Miljkovic
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Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals [PDF]
One unusual feature of the U.S. property-casualty insurance industry is the coexistence of stock and mutual companies. This paper explores the performance of these forms in the industry through a dynamic assessment of how mutual and stock insurance ...
Patricia Born +3 more
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An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Impact of Federal Terrorism Reinsurance [PDF]
This paper examines the role of the federal government in the market for terrorism reinsurance. We investigate the stock price response of affected industries to a sequence of thirteen events culminating in the enactment of the Terrorism Risk Insurance ...
Christopher M. Lewis +3 more
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Special Libraries, May 1925 [PDF]
, 1924 Volume 16, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1925/1004/thumbnail ...
Special Libraries Association
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Economic Review, 2013 In addition to premiums, investment income is one of the two main sources of capital for property-casualty (P/C) insurance companies. This study investigates short-term equity trading behavior of P/C insurers in the United States in 2007 and 2008, and ...
Jin Park, Tim Query
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Safey in Transportation: The Role of Government [PDF]
, 1968 Stora samhällsförändringar och ökande komplexitet inom välfärdsområdet ställer allt högre krav på verksamhets- och kunskapsutveckling. Denna utveckling tillsammans med krav från staten om samverkan mellan forskning och samhälle (Högskoleverket 2003 ...
Lave, Lester B.
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