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New additions to the Actuarial Profession's Libraries, December 2011

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Books

Economics and finance
Accounting and finance for non- specialists. - Atrill, Peter. - 7th ed. - Pearson, 2011. - 576 pages. - ISBN: 0273745964. [No: 74709]

At a glance, 2011-2012: essential court tables for ancillary relief. - Family Law Bar Association. 2011. - ISBN: 978-18595-933-6-3. [No: 33090]

Tolley's guide to retirement savings for high earners. - Ure, Alec. - 2nd ed. - LexisNexis, 2011. - 28 pages. - ISBN: 9780754542667. [No: 73662]

 

General insurance

Risk analysis in finance and insurance. - Financial mathematics series. - Melnikov, Alexander V. - 2nd ed. - Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2011. - x, 318 pages. - ISBN: 978-1-4200-7052-1. [No: 44513] 

 

General reference

Whitaker's Almanack 2012. - 144th ed. - Bloomsbury, 2010. - 1369 pages. - ISBN: 978-1-4081-3012-4. - 1 vols. [No: 44512]

 Who's who 2012: an annual biographical dictionary. - A & C Black, 2011. - 2560 pages. - ISBN: 978-1-4081- 4229-5. - 1 vols. [No: 11707]

 

Mathematics
Bayesian theory and methods with applications. - Savchuk, Vladimir; Tsokos, Chris P. - Atlantis Press, 2011. - 317 pages. - ISBN: 9789491216138. [No: 74707]

 

Risk management

The Basel III and beyond. - Cannata, Francesco; Quagliariello, Mario. - Risk Books, 2011. - 510 pages. - ISBN: 9781906348601. [No: 74705]

Corporate value of enterprise risk management: the next step in business management. -Segal, Sim. - Wiley, 2011. - xiii, 404 pages. - ISBN: 9780470882542. [No: 74706]

 

Social security
Social security programs throughout the world: Africa, 2011. - US Social Security Administration; International Social Security Association. - US SSA, 2009. - 189 pages. - ISBN: 978-0-16-089340-7. [No: 36618]

 

Journals

Anales del Instituto de Actuarios Españoles (Epoca 3a), vol. 17 (2011)

Applied Mathematical Finance, vol. 18 (5-6) (2011)

Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 67, 6 (Nov/Dec) (2011)

  • Active management in mostly efficient markets. - Jones, Robert C; Wermers, Russ. [No: 45510]
  • The impact of international institutional investors on local equity prices: Reversal of the size premium. - Jiang, Hao; Yamada, Takeshi. [No: 45512]
  • Most likely to succeed: Leadership in the fund industry. - Pozen, Robert C; Hamacher, Theresa. [No: 45509]
  • Trading relative performance with alpha indexes. - Sagi, Jacob S; Whaley, Robert E. [No: 45513]
  • When two anomalies meet: The post-earnings announcement drift and the value-glamour anomaly. - Yan, Zhipeng; Zhao, Yan. [No: 45511]

Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, vol. 36 (2) (2011)

  • The asymmetric information problem in Taiwan’s cancer insurance market. - Wang, Kili C; Peng, Jin-Lung; Sun, Yi-Yun; Chang, Yao- Chia. [No: 74790]
  • Innovation and information acquisition under time inconsistency and uncertainty. - Chemarin, Sophie; Orset, Caroline. [No: 74787]
  • On the underestimation of the precautionary effect in discounting. - Gollier, Christian. [No: 74785]
  • Optimal brokerage commissions for fair insurance: a first order approach. - Hau, Arthur. [No: 74789]
  • Properties of a risk measure derived from ruin theory. - Truffin, Julien; Albrecher, Hansjoerg; Denuit, Michel M. [No: 74788]
  • (S,s)-adjustment strategies and hedging under Markovian dynamics. - Agliardi, Elettra; Andergassen, Rainer. [No: 74786]

Journal of Asset Management, vol. 12 (6) (2011)

  • Dynamic equity asset allocation with liquidity-adjusted market risk criterion: Appraisal of efficient and coherent portfolios. - Al- Janabi, Mazin A M. [No: 45514]
  • Impact of investment horizon on the performance of value versus growth styles and style allocation. - Wang, Jia. [No: 45519]
  • Information spillovers between size and value premium in average stock returns. - Anheluk, Tobias E; Simlai, Pradosh. [No: 45515]
  • Momentum change, industry group rotation and portfolio returns. - Islam, Muhammad M Gomes, Lawrence. [No: 45518]
  • new asset allocation technique to reduce financial portfolio risk. - Gandolfi, Gino; Sabatini, Antonella; Rossolini, Monica. [No: 45517]
  • Style investing and momentum investing. A case study. - de Moerloose, Sandrine; Giot, Pierre. [No: 45516]

Journal of Risk and Insurance, to vol. 78 (4) (2011)

  • Asymmetric information and countermeasures in early twentieth-century American short-term disability microinsurance. - Murray, John E. [No: 74847]
  • Can Micro Health Insurance Reduce Poverty? Evidence From Bangladesh. - Hamid, Syed Abdul; Roberts, Jennifer; Mosley, Paul. [No: 74845]
  • Canonical valuation of mortality-linked securities. - Li, Johnny Siu-Hang; Ng, Andrew Cheuk-Yin. [No: 74875]
  • CEO turnover and ownership structure: evidence from the U.S. property–liability insurance industry. - He, Enya; Sommer, David W. [No: 74869]
  • The characteristics of firms that hire Chief Risk Officers. - Pagach, Donald; Warr, Richard. [No: 74850]
  • Chief Executive officer incentives, monitoring, and corporate risk management. Evidence from insurance use. - Adams, Mike; Lin, Chen; Zou, Hong. [No: 74865]
  • Claims-made and reported policies and insurer profitability in medical malpractice. - Born, Patricia; Boyer, M Martin. [No: 74848]
  • Commitment and lapse behavior in long-term insurance: a case study. - Pinquet, Jean; Guillén, Montserrat; Ayuso, Mercedes. [No: 74880]
  • Consumer response to a national marketplace for individual health insurance. - Parente, Stephen T; Feldman, Roger; Abraham, Jean; Xu, Yi. [No: 74859]
  • Corporate governance and efficiency: evidence from U.S. property–liability insurance industry. - Huang, Li-Ying; Lai, Gene C; McNamara, Michael; Wang, Jennifer. [No: 74864]
  • Corporate governance and issues from the insurance industry. - Boubakri, Narjess. [No: 74863]
  • Crop price indemnified loans for farmers: a pilot experiment in rural Ghana. - Karlan, Dean; Kutsoati, Ed; McMillan, Margaret; Udry, Chris. [No: 74844]
  • Defined benefit or defined contribution? A study of pension choices. - Cocco, João F; Lopes, Paula. [No: 74878]
  • Disease-specific moral hazard and optimal health insurance design for physician services. - Koç, Cagatay. [No: 74860]
  • Do U.S. insurance firms offer the “wrong” incentives to their executives? - Milidonis, Andreas; Stathopoulos, Konstantinos. [No: 74868]
  • Does insurance help to escape the poverty trap?—a ruin theoretic approach. - Kovacevic, Raimund M; Pflug, Georg Ch. [No: 74890]
  • Earnings smoothing, executive compensation, and corporate governance. Evidence from the property-liability insurance industry. - Eckles, David L; Halek, Martin; He, Enya; Sommer, David W; Zhang, Rongrong. [No: 74872]
  • The efficiency of categorical discrimination in insurance markets. - Rothschild, Casey G. [No: 74853]
  • An empirical examination of stakeholder groups as monitoring sources in corporate governance . - Cole, Cassandra R; He, Enya; McCullough, Kathleen A; Semykina, Anastasia; Sommer, David W. [No: 74870]
  • Flood insurance coverage in the coastal zone. - Landry, Craig; Jahan-Parvar, Mohammad R. [No: 74858]
  • Forecasting in an extended chain-ladder-type model. - Kuang, Di; Nielsen, Bent; Nielsen, Jens Perch. [No: 74857]
  • The impact of CEO turnover on property–liability insurer performance. - He, Enya; Sommer, David W; Xie, Xiaoying. [No: 74866]
  • Institutional ownership stability and risk taking: evidence from the life–health insurance industry. - Cheng, Jiang; Elyasiani, Elyas; Jia, Jingyi. [No: 74867]
  • Introduction to the 2011 symposium issue of JRI on Microinsurance. - Churchill, Craig; Phillips, Richard D; Reinhard, Dirk. [No: 74842]
  • Longevity risk management in Singapore's national pension system. - Fong, Joelle H Y; Mitchell, Olivia S; Koh, Benedict S K. [No: 74879]
  • Managerial discretion and corporate governance in publicly traded firms . Evidence from the property-liability insurance industry. - Miller, Steve M. [No: 74871]
  • Mossin's theorem given random initial wealth. - Hong, Soon Koo; Lew, Keun Ock; MacMinn, Richard; Brockett, Patrick. [No: 74855]
  • Multidimensional screening in insurance markets with adverse selection. - Crocker, Keith J; Snow, Arthur. [No: 74854]
  • A new premium principle for equity-indexed annuities. - Gaillardetz, Patrice; Lakhmiri, Joe Youssef. [No: 74852]
  • Participation in micro life insurance and the use of other financial services in Ghana. - Giesbert, Lena; Steiner, Susan; Bendig, Mirko. [No: 74843]
  • The performance of microinsurance programs: a data envelopment analysis. - Biener, Christian; Eling, Martin. [No: 74846]
  • Reinsurance and capital structure: evidence from the United Kingdom non-life insurance industry. - Shiu, Yung-Ming. [No: 74862]
  • Restructuring of the Dutch nonlife insurance industry: consolidation, organizational form, and focus. - Bikker, Jacob A; Gorter, Janko. [No: 74849]
  • Securitization of longevity risk using percentile tranching (pages) - Changki Kim and; Yangho Choi. [No: 74876]
  • State dependent unemployment benefits. - Andersen, Torben M; Svarer, Michael. [No: 74856]
  • Understanding the death benefit switch option in universal life policies. - Gatzert, Nadine; Schmitt-Hoermann, Gudrun. [No: 74874]
  • Valuation of catastrophe equity puts with markov-modulated poisson processes. - Chang, Chia-Chien; Lin, Shih-Kuei; Yu, Min-Teh. [No: 74861]
  • The value of enterprise risk management. - Hoyt, Robert E; Liebenberg, Andre P. [No: 74873]
  • Valuing the longevity insurance acquired by delayed claiming of social security. - Sun, Wei; Webb, Anthony. [No: 74877]
  • What makes a better annuity? - Scott, Jason S; Watson, John G; Hu, Wei-Yin. [No: 74851]

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 43 (3) (2011)

  • Controlling for initial endowment and experience in binary choice tasks. - Fatás, Enrique; Jiménez, Francisca; Morales, Antonio J. [No: 45530]
  • Does nurture matter: Theory and experimental investigation on the effect of working environment on risk and time preferences. - Nguyen, Quang. [No: 45531]
  • Risk attitudes in a social context. - Rohde, Ingrid M T; Rohde, Kirsten I M. [No: 45529]
  • Viewing the future through a warped lens: Why uncertainty generates hyperbolic discounting. - Epper, Thomas; Fehr-Duda, Helga; Bruhin, Adrian. [No: 45528]

North American Actuarial Journal, to vol. 15 (3) (2011)

South African Actuarial Journal, vol. 11 (2011)

Variance, vol. 5 (1) (2011)