ARCH Table of Contents - 2004.1

38th Actuarial Research Conference

 

• Sponsored by:
• AERF Committee of The Actuarial Foundation
• American Academy of Actuaries
• American Society of Pension Actuaries
• Canadian Institute of Actuaries
• Casualty Actuarial Society
• Colegio Nacional de Actuarios, A.C.
• Conference of Consulting Actuaries
• Society of Actuaries
• and
• University of Michigan Department of Mathematics
• Michigan Actuarial Society

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List of Participants | Program

Table of Contents

Topic/Title/Author(s)

Actuarial and Statistical Models

• Actuarial Computing via Recurrence Relationships in the Classroom
• N.D. Shyamal Kumar (Complete Article)

• An Empirical Study of Hattendorff's Theorem
• A. Asimit

• Bayesian Implementations of Chain Ladder Reserving Models
• D. Scollnik

• Favorable Estimators for Fitting Pareto Models: A Study Using Goodness–of–Fit Measures with Actual Data
• V. Brazauskas and R. Serfling 

• Non-Parametric Regression with a Functional Independent Variable
• C. Fuhrer (Complete Paper)

• On a Formula of Nesbitt
• E. Shiu (Formula)

• Survival Analysis with Disinformation
• E. Portnoy (Complete Paper)

Education

• Task Force on Academic Infrastructure
• R. London

Financial Mathematics

• A Trinomial Lattice Approach to Equity Index Annuity
• R. G. Reyes

• Discrete–Time Models for an Individuals Life Insurance Purchase and Lapsing, Consumption and Stock Purchase Decisions
• Y. Zhu 

• Market Forecasting and Trading Rules based on Soft Computer Technologies
• A. Shapiro (Complete Paper)

• Modeling of Economic Series Coordinated with Interest Rate Scenarios: A progress report on research sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries
• R. Gorvett, K. Ahlgrim and S. D'Arcy (Complete Paper)

• Modeling Stock Market with Financial Signal Processing
• J. Jeng (Complete Paper )

• Pricing American Options without Expiry Date
• C. Yu (Complete Paper)

• Quasi–Monte Carlo Approach to Pricing American Options on Foreign Assets under a Stochastic Interest Rate Economy
• A. Kolkiewicz

• Regime Switching of Stocks and Interest Rates
• B. Jiang

• The Continuous–Time Portfolio Problem
• M. Wilhelm

• The Bootstrap Method for Calibrating Equity Models
• M. Hardy 

Life and Health Insurance

• Adverse Selection in Term Life Insurance Purchasing Due to the BRCA ½ Genetic Test and Elastic Demand
• K. Viswanathan, J. Lemaire, K. Withers, K. Armstrong, A. Baumritter, J. Hershey, M. Pauly and D. Asch (Complete Paper)

• Bayesian Methods in Modeling Health Care Cost Data
• M. Rosenberg

• Further Analysis of Future Canadian Health Care Costs
• R. Brown and U. Suresh (Complete Paper)

• Projecting the Needs and Costs of Long Term Care in Australia
• E. Leung (Complete Paper)

• The Distribution of Total Life Insurance Claims
• T. Edwalds (Complete Paper)

• Optimal Insurance
• S. D. Promislow and V. Young 

• Optimal Insurance in Continuous Time
• K. Moore

Retirement and Pension Issues

• Exploring Risk Factors for Retirement Mortality
• H. Kwon (Complete Paper)

• Own–Company Stock in Pension Plans
• P. Boyle

• Pension Accounting and Earnings Implications
• P. Joss

• Pension Plan Turnover
• E. Frees 

• The 1/n Pension Investment Puzzle
• H. Windcliff and P. Boyle (Complete Paper)

• Securitization of Mortality Risks in Life Annuities
• Y. Lin and S. Cox (Complete Paper)

Risk Theory

• Guaranteed Benefits in Incomplete Markets and Risk Analysis
• G. Argesanu (Complete Paper)

• Iterated CTE: A Dynamic Risk Measure
• J. Wirch

• Modeling Political Risk Insurance: Utility Maximization Perspective
• M. Wen and C. Leng (Complete Paper)

• On the Variance of Estimators of Tail–VaR and other Distortion Risk Measures
• J. Rioux

• Stochastic Control Theory in Managing Insurance Risks
• M. Castillo and G. Parrocha (Complete Paper)

• Volatility Risk for Regime Switching Models
• A. Kolkiewicz

Ruin Theory

• Actuarial Applications of Some Lundberg Type Bounds
• K. Pavlova and G. Willmot 

• An Application of Extreme Value Theory in Pricing Catastrophic Losses
• A. Milidonis

• Numerical Ruin Probabilities in General Discrete Time Risk Models
• E. Marceau

• Ruin Probabilities with a Markov Chain Interest Model
• J. Cai