This paper is concerned with the optimal form of reinsurance from the ceding company point of view, when the cedent seeks to maximize the adjustment coefficient of the retained risk. We deal with the problem by exploring the relationship between maximizing the adjustment coefficient and...

In this article, we use the bootstrap technique to obtain prediction errors for different claim-reserving methods, namely, the chain ladder technique and methods based on generalized linear models. We discuss several forms of performing the bootstrap and illustrate the different solutions using...

We revisit the optimal bonus scales introduced by Norberg (Norberg, R., 1976, "Scandinavian Actuarial Journal" (2): 92-107), Borgan, Hoem, and Norberg (Borgan, O., J. Hoem, and R. Norberg, 1981, "Scandinavian Actuarial Journal" (2): 165-178), and Gilde and Sundt (Gilde, V., and B. Sundt, 1989,...