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2012Feb
Young family at home

Meliyanni Johar and Shiko Maruyama

We estimate a sequential game to investigate externality and strategic interaction among adult siblings regarding their location choice relative to their elderly parents.
 

2012Jan
Young family walking along the beach

Loretti Dobrescu, Dimitris Christelis, Alberto Motta

Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life.

2012Jan
Constellations

Daniel Alai, Zinoviy Landsman and Michael Sherris

Systematic improvements in mortality results in dependence in the survival distributions of insured lives. This paper applies a multivariate gamma distribution to incorporate dependence.

2012Jan
Data graphs

Elena Capatina

This paper studies four channels through which health affects individuals: (1) productivity, (2) medical expenditures, (3) available time and (4) survival probabilities, and assesses their roles in determining labour supply, asset accumulation and welfare.

2012Jan
Elderly friends enjoying life

Dimitris Christelis and Loretti I. Dobrescu

Using micro data from eleven European countries, we investigate the impact of being socially active on cognition in older age.

2012Jan
Female researchers examining data

Elena Veprauskaite and Michael Sherris

This paper considers optimal reinsurance based on an assessment of the reinsurance arrangements for a large life insurer.

2012Jan
Financial independence

Maathumai Nirmalendran, Michael Sherris and Katja Hanewald

This paper provides a detailed quantitative assessment of the impact of solvency capital requirements on product pricing and shareholder value for a life insurer.

2012Jan
Financial prosperity

John Piggott and Rafal Chomik

Australia's retirement income provision system, comprising the 'three pillars' of a means-tested Age Pension, mandatory occupational superannuation and other, voluntary long term savings, is at the heart of understanding the fiscal implications of ageing.

2012Jan
Middle aged man researching online

Dominic Ho and Michael Sherris

This paper examines the application of two popular MCDM methods, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and ELECTRE III, to ILS portfolios.