Policyholder Exercise Behavior in Life Insurance: The State of Affairs

Daniel Bauer, Jin Gao, Thorsten Moenig, Eric R. Ulm and Nan Zhu

North American Actuarial Journal, 2017, vol. 21, issue 4, 485-501

Abstract: The article presents a review of structural models of policyholder behavior in life insurance. We first discuss underlying drivers of policyholder behavior in theory and survey the implications of different models. We then turn to empirical behavior and appraise how well different drivers explain observations. The key contributions lie in the synthesis and the systematic categorization of different approaches. The article should provide a foundation for future studies, and we describe some important directions for future research in the conclusion.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/10920277.2017.1314816

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