This paper investigates the optimal design of weather bonds for reinsurance purposes. The motivation for this task … insurers ask for. Since reinsurance costs constitute a major cost component of insurance premiums, minimizing these costs could …

Essay One examines the asymmetric information problem between primary insurers and reinsurers in the reinsurance … selection exists in the reinsurance market between the affiliated insurers and non-affiliated reinsurers, and even between … reinsurance market.To address the issue of soaring property insurance premiums and coverage availability in states that are …

early effects address four causes of mortality and nine categories of morbidity. The models for early effects are based upon … analysis of both morbidity and mortality. The new models for genetic effects allow prediction of genetic risks in each of the …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …

censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The ….e. breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence; and a reduction in the level of sterility. As far as trends in mortality are concerned …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality …

two operations but strong evidence of delayed mortality from turbine passage. After tagging with a passive integrated … operations. Based on these differences, we estimated that delayed mortality comprised from 46% to 70% of total estimated … mortality. We reviewed the literature and concluded that delayed mortality was caused by sublethal impacts to fish sensory …