This paper investigates the optimal design of weather bonds for reinsurance purposes. The motivation for this task … insurers ask for. Since reinsurance costs constitute a major cost component of insurance premiums, minimizing these costs could …

Essay One examines the asymmetric information problem between primary insurers and reinsurers in the reinsurance … selection exists in the reinsurance market between the affiliated insurers and non-affiliated reinsurers, and even between … reinsurance market.To address the issue of soaring property insurance premiums and coverage availability in states that are …

early effects address four causes of mortality and nine categories of morbidity. The models for early effects are based upon … analysis of both morbidity and mortality. The new models for genetic effects allow prediction of genetic risks in each of the …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …