Climate change is likely to increase the future risk of weather-related damage to buildings worldwide. This challenge is faced by society in general, but the insurance industry is particularly important in the management of the anticipated increase in future risk. In addition to adjusting...

Preference data occur when assessors express comparative opinions about a set of items, by rating, ranking, pair comparing, liking, or clicking. The purpose of preference learning is to ( a) infer on the shared consensus preference of a group of users, sometimes called rank aggregation, or ( b)...

Contracts for Difference (CfDs) are forwards on the spread between an area price and the system price. Together with the system price forwards, these products are used to hedge the area price risk in the Nordic electricity market. The CfDs are typically available for the next two months, three...

We consider the problem of estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses, "π"₀, in a multiple-hypothesis set-up. The tests are based on observed "p"-values. We first review published estimators based on the estimator that was suggested by Schweder and Spjøtvoll. Then we derive new...