This study introduces a new family of distributions (FoD) called type I heavy-tailed odd Burr III-G (TI-HT-OBIII-G) distribution. Several statistical properties of the family are derived along with actuarial risk measures. The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach is adopted in the...

There is growing concern that climate change poses a serious threat to the sustainability of the insurance business. Understanding whether climate warming is a cause for an increase in claims and losses, and how this cause-effect relationship will develop in the future, are two significant open...

We demonstrate that regression models can be estimated by working independently in a row-wise fashion. We document a simple procedure which allows for a wide class of econometric estimators to be implemented cumulatively, where, in the limit, estimators can be produced without ever storing more...

The study extends the literature on the nexus between cryptocurrency and uncertainty. This study proxied the cryptocurrencies and global uncertainty, respectively, with the seven most significant and variationally susceptible cryptos and the comprehensive world uncertainty in measuring the...

This study aimed to examine the macroeconomic and firm-specific determinants of financial performance using 121 listed non-life insurance companies from 48 African countries for the period 2008–2019. Panel data of 1452 observations were examined using both ordinary least squares and two-step...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet has become a key player in the daily lives of most people. We investigate the relationship between mental health and internet use frequency and purpose, 6 months after the first lockdown in the UK, in September 2020. Using data from the UK Household...