Stochastic claims reserving in non-life insurance : Bootstrap and smoothing models

In practice there is a long tradition of actuaries calculating reserve estimates according to deterministic methods without explicit reference to a stochastic model. For instance, the chain-ladder was originally a deterministic reserving method. Moreover, the actuaries often make ad hoc adjustments...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Björkwall, Susanna
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Matematiska institutionen 2011
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