This study investigates reasonable price bounds for mortality-linked securities when the issuer has only a partial hedging ability. The price bounds are established by minimizing the difference between the benchmark price and the replicating portfolio cost subject to the gain–loss ratio of...

This study analyses the determinants of corporate liquidity for the U.S. property–liability insurance industry from 2006 to 2010. Unlike previous studies using the ordinary least squares (OLS) approach, this study applies the quantile regression (QR) method. The QR method provides further...