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New Additions to the Actuarial Profession's Libraries, June 2011

June 2011

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Books

 

Actuarial and insurance history
The theory that would not die: how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy. - Bertsch McGrayne, Sharon. - Yale University Press, 2011. - xiii, 320 pages. - ISBN: 9780300169690. [No: 45124]

Economics and finance
The future of the UK financial services industry. - Chetham, Jacqui. - Pearson Professional, for FT, 1995. - x, 144 p. pages. - ISBN: 1853343005. [No: 45358]

General insurance
Butterworths insurance law 2011. - 12th ed. - LexisNexis Butterworths, 2011. - 3228 pages. - ISBN: 9781405755825. [No: 63520]
Reinsurance. - Paine, Christopher. - Ane Books Pvt. Ltd. 2009. - vii, 294 pages. - ISBN: 9788180522994. [No: 45360]

General reference
The Scottish Law Directory 2011: (The White Book). - LexisNexis UK, 2011. - 1240 pages. - ISBN: 9781405755801. [No: 61796]

Life assurance ; Risk management
Life insurance risk management essentials. - EAA series. - Koller, Michael. - Springer-Verlag, 2011. - xxi, 334 p. pages. - ISBN: 9783642207204. [No:45278]

Miscellaneous
Tolley's guide to salary sacrifice. - Moffatt, Gavin. - Lexis Nexis, 2011. - 72 pages. - ISBN: 9780754542636. [No: 45277]

 

Journals

 

ASTIN Bulletin, vol. 41 (1) (2011)

Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 67, 3 (May/Jun) (2011)

  • Another clue to volatility. - Fridson, Martin S. [No: 45315]
  • Capturing credit spread premium. - Ng, Kwok-Yuen; Phelps, Bruce D. [No: 45319]
  • International diversification works (eventually) - Asness, Clifford S; Israelov, Roni; Liew, John M. [No: 45316]
  • Liquidity level or liquidity risk? evidence from the financial crisis. - Lou, Xiaoxia; Sadka, Ronnie. [No: 45318]
  • The margin of safety and turning points in house prices: observations from three developed markets. - Mizuno, Mitsuru; Tabner, Isaac T. [No: 45320]
  • Practitioner portfolio construction and performance measurement: evidence from Europe. - Amenc, Noel; Goltz, Felix; Lioui, Abraham. [No: 45317]

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

  • Assessing adequacy of retirement income for U.S. households: a replacement ratio approach. - Yuh, Yoonkyung. [No: 45335]
  • Demutualisation, control and efficiency in the U.S. life insurance industry. - Xie, Xiaoying; Lu, WeiLi; Reising, Joseph; Stohs, Mark Hoven. [No: 45331]
  • The productivity of European life insurers: best-practice adoption vs. innovation. - Bertoni, Fabio; Croce, Annalisa. [No: 45329]
  • Risk margin estimation through the cost of capital approach: some conceptual issues. - Floreani, Alberto. [No: 45332]
  • A traffic light approach to solvency measurement of Swiss occupational pension funds. - Braun, Alexander; Rymaszewski, Przemyslaw; Schmeiser, Hato. [No: 45333]
  • Value relevance of embedded value and IFRS 4 insurance contracts. - Chung-Fern, Rebecca; Wen-Hsin, Hsu. [No: 45334]
  • What motivates insurers to use derivatives: evidence from the United Kingdom life insurance industry. - Yung-Ming, Shiu. [No: 45330]

Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, vol. 36 (1) (2011)

  • Conversion and efficiency performance changes: evidence from the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. - Chen, Lih-Ru; Lai, Gene C; Wang, Jennifer L. [No: 45273]
  • Impacts of jumps and stochastic interest rates on the fair costs of guaranteed minimum death benefit contracts. - Quittard-Pinon, François; Randrianarivony, Rivo. [No: 45275]
  • Surety bonds with fair and unfair pricing. - Wambach, Achim; Engel, Andreas R. [No: 45274]
  • Weather risk hedging in the European markets and international investment diversification. - Yang, Charles C; Li, Linda Shihong; Wen, Min-Ming. [No: 45276]

Journal of Asset Management, vol. 12 (2) (2011)

  • An adequate measure for exchange rate returns Invited editorial. - de Jong, Marielle. [No: 45309]
  • Constructing 130/30-portfolios with the Omega ratio. - Gilli, Manfred; Schumann, Enrico; Di Tollo, Giacomo; Cabej, Gerda. [No: 45310]
  • Does the BEYR help predict UK sector returns? - McMillan, David G. [No: 45314]
  • Generalized marginal risk. - Keel, Simon; Ardia, David. [No: 45312]
  • Pricing liquidity risk and cost in the stock market: How different was the financial crisis? - Han, Xue; Jian, Zheng. [No: 45311]
  • Returns in trading versus non-trading hours: The difference is day and night. - Kelly, Michael A.; Clark, Steven P. [No: 45313]

The journal of poverty and social justice, vol. Vol 19 (2, June) (2011)

  • Privatisation and pensions: what does this mean for women? - Foster, Liam. [No: 45361]

Journal of Social Policy, vol. 40 (2) (2011)

  • Assessing the role of increasing choice in English social care services. - Stevens, Martin; Glendinning, Caroline; Jacobs, Sally. [No: 45339]
  • Changes in parental assets and children's educational outcomes. - Loke, Vernon; Sacco, Paul. [No: 45344]
  • Choice and welfare reform: lone parents’ decision making around paid work and family life. - Rafferty, Anthony; Wiggan, Jay. [No: 45340]
  • The ‘deserving’ rich? inequality, morality and social policy. - Rowlingson, Karen; Connor, Stewart. [No: 45346]
  • Early occupational aspirations and fractured transitions: a study of entry into ‘NEET’ status in the UK. - Yates, Scott; Harris, Angel; Sabates, Ricardo; Staff, Jeremy. [No: 45350]
  • The ethics of welfare provision for migrants: a case for equal treatment and the repositioning of welfare. - Bolderson, Helen. [No: 45337]
  • Food and nutrition security at risk in later life: evidence from the United Kingdom expenditure & food survey. - Deeming, Christopher. [No: 45348]
  • Helping the poorest help themselves? encouraging employment past 65 in England and the USA. - Lain, David. [No: 45349]
  • Homelessness and the mobile shelter system: public transportation as shelter. - Nichols, Laura; Cazares, Fernando. [No: 45343]
  • An institutional embeddedness of welfare opinions? the link between public opinion and social policy in the Netherlands (1970–2004) - Raven, Judith; Achterberg, Peter; Van der Veen, Romke; Yerkes, Mara. [No: 45345]
  • Opportunity and solidarity. - Taylor-Gooby, Peter. [No: 45347]
  • Searching for poverty-aware social work: discourse analysis of job descriptions. - Krumer-Nevo, Michal; Weiss-Gal, Idit; Levin, Lia. [No: 45342]
  • Tackling neglect and mental health reform in a devolved system of welfare governance. - Costa-Font, Joan; Salvador-Carulla, Luis; Cabases, Juan M.; Alonso, Jordi; McDaid, David. [No: 45341]
  • Telling policy stories : an ethnographic study of the use of evidence in policy-making in the UK. - Stevens, Alex. [No: 45338]
  • Upskilling the workers will not upskill the work. why the dominant economic framework limits child poverty reduction in the UK. - Lewis, Paul. [No: 45351]
  • Welfare-to-work and the responsiveness of employment providers to the needs of refugees. - Shutes, Isabel. [No: 45352]

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, vol. 2 (2011)

  • Covariance of discounted compound renewal sums with a stochastic interest rate. - Leveille, Ghislain; Adekambi, Franck. [No: 45356]
  • Extending the Lee-Carter model: a three-way decomposition. - Russolillo, Maria; Giordano, Giuseppe; Haberman, Steven. [No: 45354]
  • On a multi-threshold compound Poisson surplus process with interest. - Mitric, Ilie-Radu. [No: 45353]
  • The proper distribution function of the deficit in the delayed renewal risk model. - Kim, So-Yeun; Willmot, Gordon E. [No: 45355]