Essays about: "thesis on economics of insurance"

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  1. 1. Double Machine Learning for Insurance Price Optimization

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Jakob Kristiansson; [2023]
    Keywords : DML; Double Machine Learning; Price Optimization; Insurance Pricing; DML; Dubbel Maskininlärning; Prisoptimering; Försäkringsprissättning;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how recent advances in debaised machine learning can be used for estimating price elasticities of demand within the automotive insurance field. Traditional methods such as generalized linear model (GLM) to estimate demand has no way of ensuring there are no biases in the underlying data selection, especially when the confounding variables are many. READ MORE

  3. 2. Is China Really Socialist?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Alessandro Maffei; [2023]
    Keywords : China - Political Economy - Economic History - Socialism; Business and Economics; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates if China is a socialist economy or not. The topic, which has triggered many leading scholars, is highly interesting since institutions are pivotal to understanding a country’s economic performance. Previous studies have neglected the classic socialist literature, giving ambiguous interpretations of what is socialism. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Impact of Financial Crises and Natural Disasters on the US Catastrophe Bond Market

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Martina Scaroni; Felicitas Gesa Lore Elisabeth Schulze-Steinen; [2022]
    Keywords : Catastrophe Bond; Atlantic Hurricanes; Natural Disasters; Financial Crisis; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Catastrophe (CAT) bonds bring the needs of (re)insurance companies and investors together: They insure against natural disasters by transferring risk to the capital market while at the same time promising high returns and a certain detachment from financial markets. Being an alternative investment class that has been on the rise only in recent years, academic research on CAT bonds is comparatively limited. READ MORE

  5. 4. Fire insurance in Sweden from an individual owner’s perspective : a cost benefit analysis

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Economics

    Author : Ludvig Andersson; Axel Nilsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Climate change; Fire probability; Forest fire; Insurance.;

    Abstract : Forest insurance is seen as a management tool for preventing losses in a business. 48 percent of the forest landscape are owned by Individual owners (IO´s) and are divided into 222 000 user units. A large share of them are insured today. READ MORE

  6. 5. Does Ethnic Origin matter for Health Inequalities in Bolivia? An Assessment of the Effect of Ethnicity on Health Care Access and Health Outcomes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Brianna Gerlach; [2022]
    Keywords : Health inequalities; ethnicity; Bolivia; health outcomes; indigenousness; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Good health is of utmost importance to individuals and economic growth. Nevertheless, inequalities concerning health services and conditions are observed in developed as well as developing countries. Often such disparities are related to ethnicity, with indigenous populations exhibiting lower health performance. READ MORE