| Financial Models of Insurance Solvency Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Cummins, J. David (Editor), Derrig, Richard A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9401076316 ISBN-13: 9789401076319 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Insurance - General - Business & Economics | Finance - General - Business & Economics | Management Science |
| Dewey: 368.01 |
| Series: Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.21 lbs) 364 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The First International Conference on Insurance Solvency was held at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania from June 18th through June 20th, 1986. The conference was the inaugural event for Wharton's Center for Research on Risk and Insurance. In atten- dance were thirty-nine representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The papers presented at the Conference are published in two volumes, this book and a companion volume, Classical Insurance Solvency Theory, J. D. Cummins and R. A. Derrig, eds. (Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988). The first volume presented two papers reflecting important advances in actuarial solvency theory. The current volume goes beyond the actuarial approach to encom- pass papers applying the insights and techniques of financial economics. The papers fall into two groups. The first group con- sists of papers that adopt an essentially actuarial or statistical ap- proach to solvency modelling. These papers represent methodology advances over prior efforts at operational modelling of insurance companies. The emphasis is on cash flow analysis and many of the models incorporate investment income, inflation, taxation, and other economic variables. The papers in second group bring financial economics to bear on various aspects of solvency analysis. These papers discuss insurance applications of asset pricing models, capital structure theory, and the economic theory of agency. |