Empirical studies on asymmetric information have mainly focused on primary insurance markets, but comparatively little attention has been given to reinsurance markets. This study investigates the existence of asymmetric information by testing for a positive correlation between coverage and ex...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test for the existence of residual moral hazard in the three largest US reinsurance markets over the period 1995-2000 and examine the effectiveness of retention limit, experience rating and long-term contracting relationship in controlling for moral...

This article presents two new elementary derivations of the expectation of the geometric distribution. I also review six existing approaches. I hope that this article will benefit instructors and students in an introductory probability course.

We investigate the effectiveness of a well-known global regulatory agency, the Basel Committee, on a major sector of the US financial market. The Basel Committee's recommendations are implemented in the US following a plan set forth by the Federal Banking Agencies (FBAs). The information content...

Students in their first course in probability will often see the expectation formula for nonnegative continuous random variables in terms of the survival function. The traditional approach for deriving this formula (using double integrals) is well-received by students. Some students tend to...

The Fifteenth Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attracted worldwide attention by announcing its adoption of "controlling big while releasing the small strategy in reforming its 354,000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), 240,000 of which are small-sized SOEs. A shareholding system...

Because of the stringent nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions legislation for heavy-duty diesel engines, the SCR (selective catalytic reduction) has been investigated by many researchers. The objective of these studies is to investigate the reasons why the temperature downstream of the SCR catalyst...