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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Insurance premium"”.
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A comparison of automobile insurance premium savings under selected policy regimes: A simulation model
The major goal of the study is to estimate insurance premium savings for three policy options related to restraint systems in automobiles. It uses a simulation model to estimate savings.
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Flooded with Possibilities: Analyzing Flood Insurance as a Catalyst for Development in Southeast Florida
… market immune to the decisions made by insurance companies and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)? These uncertainties form the basis of this thesis, which delves into the factors influencing insurance premium rates in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, with a specific focus on …
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Three essays on wage inequality and health insurance coverage
… population-- wage inequality and wage health insurance-- are studied. This thesis consists three chapters. In the first chapter, we (co-authored) examine the effects of corporate restructuring on wage patterns and inequality in a Fortune 500 firm. We show that the restructuring, including …
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… amount of literature on how Unemployment Insurance (UI) affects unemployed workers' job search behavior, there has been no previous study on how the health insurance premium subsidy affects this behavior. To fill the gap in previous studies, this paper analyzes the impact of the …
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Essays on regulatory control of deposit insurance and dual trading
… directly its effect on the pricing of deposit insurance. It derives values of deposit insurance with both deterministic and stochastic charter values. It is shown that significant charter value can be a main cost to exploit the FDIC's guarantee at a given level of regulatory control. …
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LOG-SUPERMODULARITY OF WEIGHT FUNCTIONS AND THE LOADING MONOTONICITY OF WEIGHTED INSURANCE PREMIUMS
… by a problem concerning the monotonicity of insurance premiums with respect to their loading parameter: the larger the parameter, the larger the insurance premium is expected to be. This property, usually called loading monotonicity, is satisfied by premiums that appear in the literature. The …
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Risk management in crop farming
… impacts caused by natural hazards, crop insurance is an appropriate tool (Di Falco et al., 2014). In addition to crop insurance purchase, to maximize agriculture’s mitigation potential regarding to weather-related risks, there is a need for investments in technological innovation and …
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An application of an option pricing model to evaluate the cost of a government loan guarantee : an hypothetical case based on Eskom
… intervention in credit assistance and insurance programmes. The main reason for this intervention was that there was a general desire to rescue individuals and businesses which were unable to repay their debts when due. Considerable debate has focused on the determination of the …
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FORMALIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERALIZED CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE FOR REALIZATION OF COMPUTING WITH WORDS
… case study is developed to compute the auto insurance premium based on an imprecise knowledge base. The alpha version of CWSHELL along with the case study and documentation is available for download at http://cwjess.cs.siu.edu/.
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Provable and practical location privacy for vehicular and mobile systems
… tolling, congestion pricing, traffic statistics, insurance pricing, location-based social applications), which promise tremendous benefits to users. Unfortunately, most such systems pose a serious threat to the location privacy of users because they track each individual's path. A question that …
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Essays on banking
… risk, (iii) capital regulation, and (iv) deposit insurance. The optimal bank interest margin is shown to be increasing with the variability of the short-term money market rate, but decreasing with either a stiffer capital requirement or an increase in the flat-rate deposit insurance premium.
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An actuarial approach to motor insurance rating
… structure for the practical analysis of motor insurance premium rating. An underlying theme emphasises that judgements are being made taking into account many factors e.g. economical, statistical and technical, therefore it is necessary to bring into the decision process a group of interested …
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Patients' choice between the National Health Service and the private sector in the United Kingdom
… modeled for the case where there is no private insurance available. The model takes into account the different rationing mechanisms used by National Health Service (NHS) and private hospitals to allocate surgery among patients. Private hospitals charge a price and ration on the basis of …
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The imposition of punitive damages: a comparative analysis
… damages, such as, the methodology of anti-insurance where the punitive damages awards would be paid to a third-party instead of the plaintiff, the effects of punitive damages imposition on the insurance premium, the analysis of whether punitive damages can only be applied in jurisdictions …
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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment
… they signal risk to homeowners and mandate insurance take-up. How these information and risk transfer mechanisms affect homeowner relocation decisions remains unknown. Combining real estate transaction data and historical FEMA flood maps, I exploit geographic and temporal variation in flood …
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The Application Of Insurance As A Risk Management Tool For Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Implementation In Construction Disputes
… is no longer considered economical. While many insurance policies cover the settlement of a dispute, such as professional liability insurance, no specific insurance policy is dedicated to cover the ADR implementation costs such as fees and expenses that are paid to the owner/contractor's …
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Essays in Environmental and Supply Chain Topics in Finance
… transaction-level data on payments, credit, and insurance to examine how Brazilian farmers responded to the severe frost of July 2021, a shock that affected coffee, a perennial crop whose plants are a major component of farm value. The frost shock reduced both output and the pledgeable value of …
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Analisis penerapan asuransi dalam pembiayaan kredit pemilikan rumah (KPR) pada PT. Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero), Tbk. Kantor Cabang Syariah Malang
… a transfer of risk to another party through insurance. In this study, BTN Syariah insured mortgage loan types in the mortgage life insurance and fire insurance. The method used is descriptive qualitative method. The data of this study include the primary data and secondary data. Primary data …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… their specific governance needs. Chapter 2, “D&O Insurance and IPO Performance: what can we learn from insurers?”, co-authored with Martin Boyer, provides new insights into the ability of directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurers to price risk, and in particular risk related to governance …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Health in Developing Countries
… first two chapters study Ghana's social health insurance program, the National Health Insurance Scheme. Many developing countries have recently instituted social health insurance schemes (SHIs) to ease financial barriers to utilization of healthcare services and help mitigate the effects of …