Essays about: "insurance effect"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 89 essays containing the words insurance effect.

  1. 16. Increasing Retention in Insurtechs Through Churn Prediction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Innovationsteknik

    Author : John Rapp Farnes; Oskar Christiansen; [2021]
    Keywords : Non-life insurance; Property and casualty insurance; Customer retention; Churn prediction; Predictive analytics; Classification; Machine learning; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : Over the last decades, the Swedish insurance industry has seen decreased entry barriers due to deregulation and emerging new technologies, which have the potential to disturb the stagnated and consolidated competitive landscape of the industry. Initiated by newcomers like American insurance startup Lemonade, and later Swedish Hedvig among others, there is an increased push toward digitalization, transparency, and automation in the industry. READ MORE

  3. 17. The hot and cold cow : a stochastic production frontier analysis of the effect of temperature and income diversification in Swedish dairy farms.

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Sanae Sone Dy; [2021]
    Keywords : dairy farms; income diversification; diversification; Simpson’s index; temperature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines if Swedish dairy farms between 2005-2016, that diversify into unconventional income opportunities, can cushion a possible negative effect from increase in the mean temperature in Sweden. Dairy cows are sensitive to increases in temperature and could suffer from both heat and cold stress. READ MORE

  4. 18. Predicting Risk Exposure in the Insurance Sector : Application of Statistical Tools to Enhance Price Optimization at Trygg-Hansa

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för matematik och matematisk statistik

    Author : Daniel Dunbäck; Lars Mattsson; [2021]
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    Abstract : Knowledge about future customer flow can be very important when trying to optimize a business, especially for an insurance company like Trygg-Hansa since the customer flow is connected to the risk exposure for the company. In this thesis it is shown how customer volume for certain time periods can be estimated using stratification of data and univariate time series models. READ MORE

  5. 19. Logistic regression analysis of If’s car insurance market share : Purposeful selection of covariates benchmarked with elastic net, PCA and random forest

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI)

    Author : Alice Harting; [2021]
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    Abstract : This project aims to build a logistic regression model of the car insurance market share of If Skadeförsäkring AB. The model is constructed by producing a set of candidates with reduced multicollinearity, subjecting each to purposeful selection of covariates and comparing the resulting summary statistics. READ MORE

  6. 20. Feeling the Heat of Climate Change - How Sensitive Could It Be? 

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    Author : Gustav Kollberg; John Skantze; [2020-06-29]
    Keywords : Climate Sensitivity; Predictability of Stock Returns; Temperature Anomaly; Fama French Three-Factor Model; Carhart Four-Factor Model;

    Abstract : This thesis examines if climate sensitivity predicts stock returns and how well this measurement performs. The sample consists of the S&P 500 and the monthly stock return for the period between 1979 to 2019. The method is first to estimate the climate sensitivity for stock returns from temperature anomaly. READ MORE