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Disclosure of medical information in health insurance

Rahkovsky, Ilya - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 183-205

disclosure plan having a lower premium than a non disclosure plan. Furthermore, I find that if health plans have few employees … sorting of employees according to their health status more pronounced. -- health insurance ; disclosure ; information …

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El coste de los cuidados de larga duración en la población española : análisis comparativo entre los años 1999 y 2008

Alcañiz Zanón, Manuela; Alemany Leira, Ramón; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 111-131

This paper analyzes the cost of long-term care (LTC) associated to individuals in dependence situation. The economic cost of care per unit of service is linked to the expected time of needed care and the intensity of required services. We have estimated the expected lifetime cost of LTC in...

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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income

O’Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...

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Erfolgreich Altern : Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit haben großen Einfluss

Brandt, Martina; Deindl, Christian; Hank, Karsten - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 11-14

-life health ; childhood conditions ; social inequality ; SHARELIFE …

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Menschen mit hohem Einkommen leben länger

Kroh, Martin; Neiss, Hannes; Kroll, Lars; Lampert, Thomas - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 38, pp. 3-15

statistical correlation between income and life expectancy presents a challenge to those responsible for health policy in the … those from affluent households, reform of occupational safety standards and improvements in the promotion of health in the … workplace would make sense, as would behavior-related preventive measures and tailored health information campaigns that focus …

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. -- health inequality …

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Medición del riesgo de renta variable mediante modelos internos en Solvencia II

Durán Sontomil, Pablo; Otero González, Luis A.; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 1, pp. 53-68

This work focuses on developing an internal model for equity risk under Solvency II. We have used monthly data for the series of Ibex 35, Cac 40, FTSE 100 and Dax in the period between January 1992 and December 2008. This work fits by maximum likelihood method the model of normal returns, based...

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The use of capital market instruments in investment of European insurance companies

Wolski, Rafał - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 92-99

The financial and the insurance markets are increasingly penetrating each other, accounting for the fact that insurers are more and more often seen as major institutional investors of capital markets. The capital market offers a range of new opportunities, although it is not devoid of faults,...

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Estimación de reservas en una compañía aseguradora : una aplicación en Excel del método Chain-Ladder y Bootstrap

Álvarez-Jareño, José Antonio; Coll-Serrano, Vicente - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 14 (2012), pp. 124-136

Insurance companies have to estimate reserves and provisions to cover the payment of either unreported claims or unsettled claims. In this paper, we apply the Chain-Ladder method to obtain a point estimate of reserves, and then we use the bootstrap technique to estimate the margin of error and...

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Credit risk analysis : reflections on the use of the logit model

Barual, Concepción; García, Fernando; Giménez, Vincente - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 1-13

The present economic and financial crisis has underlined the importance to financial institutions and investors of having access to efficient methods of quantifying credit risk, or the probability of default. The logit models are among the techniques commonly used by large organizations and...

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