New Additions to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Libraries, August 2013
August 2013
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Books
John Napier and the invention of logarithms, 1614: A lecture. - Hobson, E W. 1914. [No: 964]
The Black Death in London. - Sloane, Barney. - The History Press, 2011. - 2223 pages. - ISBN: 978- 0752428291. [No: 46097]
Insurers' contributions to disaster reduction: A series of case studies. - Geneva Report No. 7. - Orie, Meghan; Stahel, Walter R. (2013) 7: - Geneva Association, - 108 pages. [No: 74001]
Reinsurance: The nuts and bolts. - Riley, Keith. - 3rd ed. - Witherby Insurance, 2012. - 269 pages. - ISBN: 9781856095365. [No: 70305]
The AAA handbook 2013: life through a different lens. - Barclays Capital. - 9th ed. - Barclays Capital, 2013. - 847 pages. [No: 46098]
Introduction to mathematical portfolio theory. - International Series on Actuarial Science. - Joshi, Mark S; Paterson, Jane M. - Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xii, 324 pages. - ISBN: 9781107042315. [No: 46063]
Executive's guide to Solvency II. - Buckham, David; Wahl, Jason; Rose, Stuart. - 1st ed. - Wiley, 2011. - xi, 194 pages. - ISBN: 9780470545720. [No: 42966]
Financial modeling, actuarial valuation and solvency in insurance. - Wüthrich, Mario V; Merz, Michael. - Springer, 2013. - 432 pages. - ISBN: 97836423139412. [No: 70304]
Handbook of solvency for actuaries and risk managers: Theory and practice. - Chapman & Hall/CRC Finance series. - Sandstrom, Arne. - Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2011. - 1055 pages. - ISBN: 9781439821305. [No: 39904]
Solving solvency: 100 Tips for managing insurance capital in a shifting regulatory landscape. - Modisett, Matthew C. - FE Steps, 2013. - 186 pages. - ISBN: 978-0957681408. [No: 73755]
Journals
Bimaquest, vol. 13 (2) (2013)
- Bancassurance: A lucrative marketing strategy of insurance services. - Kartheeswari, S; Rajeswari, K. [No: 70693]
- Perceptions of health insurance policyholders and non policyholders. - Chaudhari, R D. [No: 70697]
- Save tax while you pratise the art of giving. - Kumar, Alok. [No: 70695]
- Status of incurred claim ratio of non life insurance companies in India. An appraisal. - Das, S C; Agrawal, Anuj. [No: 70692]
- Understanding service retirement benefits. - Kumar, Dinesh. [No: 70694]
Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 69 (4) (2013)
- Active share and mutual fund performance. - Petajisto, Antti. [No: 70973]
- Flight to quality and asset allocation in a financial crisis. - Marsh, Terry; Pfleiderer, Paul. [No: 70971]
- The golden dilemma. - Erb, Claude B; Harvey, Campbell R. [No: 70970]
- “Sell in May and Go Away” Just won’t go away. - Andrade, Sandro C; Chhaochharia, Vidhi; Fuerst, Michael E. [No: 70974]
- What drives corporate pension plan contributions: Moral hazard or tax benefits?- Chen, Xuanjuan; Yu, Tong; Zhang, Ting. [No: 70972]
Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, vol. 12 (3) (2013)
- The minimum pension as an instrument of poverty protection in the defined contribution pension system. An example of Poland. - Chlon-Dominczak, Agnieszka; Strzelecki, Pawel. [No: 74004]
- Preferences for redistribution and pensions. What can we learn from experiments? - Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno. [No: 74003]
- Voluntary savings, financial behavior, and pension finance literacy: evidence from Chile. - Landerretche, Oscar M; Martinez, Claudia. [No: 74002]
Journal of Risk and Insurance, vol. 80 (2) (2013)
- Accuracy of premium calculation models for cat bonds—an empirical analysis. - Galeotti, Marcello; Gürtler, Marc; Winkelvos, Christine. [No: 74030]
- Capital market development, competition, property rights, and the value of insurer product- line diversification. A cross-country analysis. - Berry-Stölzle, Thomas R; Hoyt, Robert E; Wende, Sabine. [No: 74031]
- Deciding whether to invest in mitigation measures: evidence from Florida. - Carson, James M; McCullough, Kathleen A; Pooser, David M. [No: 74026]
- Derivatives clearing, default risk, and insurance. - Jones, Robert A; Pérignon, Christophe. [No: 74029]
- The impact of introducing insurance guaranty schemes on pricing and capital structure. - Schmeiser, Hato; Wagner, Joël. [No: 74025]
- Intermediation and (mis-)matching in insurance markets—who should pay the insurance broker? - Focht, Uwe; Richter, Andreas; Schiller, Jörg. [No: 74027]
- Pension benefit security. A comparison of solvency requirements, a pension guarantee fund, and sponsor support. - Broeders, Dirk; Chen, An. [No: 74024]
- Pension portfolio choice and peer envy. - Wise, Jacqueline Volkman. [No: 74032]
- Systemic weather risk and crop insurance: the case of China. - Okhrin, Ostap; Odening, Martin; Xu, Wei. [No: 74028]
North American Actuarial Journal, vol. 17 (2) (2013)
- Annuity uncertainty with stochastic mortality and interest rates. - Liu, Xiaoming. [No: 74021]
- A digital picture of the actuarial research community. - Genest, Christian; Carabarín-Aguirre, Alberto. [No: 74013]
- Double Chain Ladder and Bornhuetter-Ferguson. - Martinez Miranda, Maria Dolores; Neilsen, Jens Perch; Verrall, Richard. [No: 74019]
- The impact of the interest rate on insurance/financials industries: the analysis of the stock market's reactions to Federal funds rate changes. - Yang, Charles C. [No: 74015]
- Life insurance lapse behavior . - Fier, Stephen G; Liebenberg, Andre P. [No: 74022]
- Life insurance purchasing to maximize utility of household consumption . - Bayraktar, Erhan; Young, Virginia R. [No: 74020]
- Managing the invisible: identifying value-maximizing combinations of risk and capital. - Panning, William H. [No: 74014]
- Polynomial approximation to option prices under regime switching. - Tang, Yunfun. [No: 74023]
- Pricing and hedging variable annuity guarantees with multiasset stochastic investment models. - Ng, Andrew Cheuk-Yin; Li, Johnny Siu-Hang. [No: 74016]
- Pricing funeral (burial) insurance in a microinsurance world with emphasis on Africa. - Ramsay, Colin M; Arcila, Luis David. [No: 74017]
- State pension reform in a public choice framework. - Booth, Philip. [No: 74018]
Risk Management and Insurance Review, vol. 16 (1) (2013)
- Limiting the ACA's threats to small group health insurance markets. - Monahan, Amy B; Schwarcz, Daniel. [No: 74008]
- Market implications of public policy interventions: the case of Florida’s property insurance market. - Medders, Lorilee A; Nyce, Charles M; Bradley Karl, J. [No: 74006]
- Open-market stock repurchases by insurance companies and signaling. - Huang, Gow-Cheng; Liano, Kartono; Manakyan, Herman; Pan, Ming-Shiun. [No: 74010]
- Personal lines risk management and insurance simulation game. - Kerr, Dana A; Avila, Stephen M. [No: 74012]
- Recent research developments affecting nonlife insurance—The CAS Risk Premium Project 2011 Update. - Eling, Martin. [No: 74009]
- The relationship between insurance and economic development: 85 empirical papers for a review of the literature. - Outreville, Jean- François. [No: 74011]
- Spend more today safely. Using behavioral economics to improve retirement expenditure decisions with speedometer plans. - Blake, David; Boardman, Tom. [No: 74005]
- When black swans aren't. On better recognition, assessment, and forecasting of large scale, large impact, and rare event change. - Fritz, Guntram; Werther, Albin. [No: 74007]
Sigma, vol. 3 (2013)
- World insurance in 2012: Progressing on the long and winding road to recovery. - Swiss Reinsurance Company. [No: 74000]