This article makes a bridge between the theory of optimal auditing and the scoring methodology in an asymmetric information setting. Our application is meant for insurance claims fraud, but it can be applied to many other activities that use the scoring approach. Fraud signals are classified...

This article makes a bridge between the theory of optimal auditing and the scoring methodology in an asymmetric information setting. Our application is meant for insurance claims fraud, but it can be applied to many other activities that use the scoring approach. Fraud signals are classified...

We test the efficiency associated with the role of memory in long-term contracting. Bonus-malus schemes in automobile insurance are examples of contracts that use memory. During the eighties different contributions showed how multi-period contracting under moral hazard improves resource...

Risk Management offers comprehensive coverage of the design and operation of a risk management system: its technical modeling and its interplay with the external regulations by which such a system is governed. More specifically, it provides a framework for viewing the policies, methodologies,...

Corporate finance theory predicts that firms' characteristics affect agency costs and hence their efficiency. Cummins et al (2006) have proposed a cost function specification that measures separately insurer efficiency in handling risk pooling, risk management, and financial intermediation...

In this paper, we estimate the impact of introducing a bonus-malus system on the probability of having automobile accidents, taking into account contract duration or the client mobility between insurers. We show that the new incentive scheme reduces accident rates of all policyholders when...

Risk Management offers comprehensive coverage of the design and operation of a risk management system: its technical modeling and its interplay with the external regulations by which such a system is governed. More specifically, it provides a framework for viewing the policies, methodologies,...

We use the maximum likelihood (ML) estimation approach to estimate the default barriers from market values of equities for a sample of 762 public industrial Canadian firms. The ML approach allows estimating simultaneously the asset's instantaneous drift, volatility and the barrier level, when...