Life insurance: modeling the lifetime

Annamaria Olivieri () and Ermanno Pitacco ()
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Annamaria Olivieri: Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Economia
Ermanno Pitacco: Università di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, Matematiche e Statistiche

Chapter Chapter 3 in Introduction to Insurance Mathematics, 2011, pp 141-195 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract When writing insurance contracts, the insurer takes risks originating from various causes. In life insurance, causes of risk relate to financial aspects (e.g. investment yield, inflation, etc.), demographical aspects (e.g. lifetimes of policyholders, lapses and surrenders, etc.), expenses. In this Section we are dealing with demographical aspects only, focussing on policyholders’ lifetimes, which in turn determine the frequency of death in a portfolio.

Keywords: Life Table; Survival Function; Life Insurance; Portfolio Size; Longevity Risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16029-5_3

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