The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has recently published Working Papers 52 and 58. These Papers represent a third phase in…

Im Ergebnis lässt sich feststellen, dass das GenDG im Vergleich zu der zuvor durch die Selbstverpflichtungserklärung geprägten Rechtslage weniger Änderungen…

The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) has recently published Working Paper 43, which is the fourth in a series of working…

Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) are a popular way to summarize the resolution power of a diagnostic test. ROCs plot…

A global financial crisis has been affecting the whole world since the 3rd quarter of 2008. Against the background of…

In the SEER database, it is relatively easy to identify secondary cancers that follow an initial diagnosis of cancer. However,…

A financial evaluation of the effectiveness of chronic disease health management programs would ideally take into account the health care…

The risk of a global avian flu or influenza A (H1N1) pandemic and the emergence of the worldwide SARS epidemic…

In this paper we employ the theory of real option pricing to address problems in the area of operational risk…

Chronic diseases account for 75% of U.S. national health care expenditures as estimated by the Centers for Disease Control. Many…

In the SEER database, it is relatively easy to identify secondary cancers that follow an initial diagnosis of cancer. However,…

Life table analysis and other mortality methods apply well to end points other than mortality. This paper demonstrates the application…

Adult Polycystic Kidney Disease (APKD) is a single-gene autosomal dominant genetic disorder leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD, meaning kidney…

The purpose of this article is to provide a technical discussion of capital loading that ‘‘micro health insurance units’’ (MIUs)…

Between 1992 and 2001 significant reserves increase announcements were made by several major property/liability insurers. These reserves increases were for…

Metabolic syndrome and its association with mortality have not been studied in insured lives populations. The Swiss Re Study evaluated metabolic…

In Part I we construct a model for the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) or stroke that either incorporates,…

We fit a linear mixed model and a Bayesian hierarchical model to data provided by an insurance company located in…