Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Insurance - General

This textbook aims to fill the gap between those that offer a theoretical treatment without many applications and those that present and apply formulas without appropriately deriving them. The balance achieved will give readers a fundamental understanding of key financial ideas and tools that form the basis for building realistic models, including those that may become proprietary. Numerous carefully chosen examples and exercises reinforce the student's conceptual understanding and facility with applications. The exercises are divided into conceptual, application-based, and theoretical...

Die Folgen der Finanzmarktregulierung fur das Geschaftsmodell von Genossenschaftsbanken wurden bislang zu wenig erforscht. Aus diesem Grund widmet sich das vorliegende Werk dieser Fragestellung. Dafur wurde eine mehrstufige, umfangreiche empirische Untersuchung durchgefuhrt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das Geschaftsmodell der Kreditgenossenschaften in all seinen Facetten negativ beeinflusst wird. Hierbei sind vor allem die Kosten und Einnahmequellen sowie die Schlusselaktivitaten am intensivsten betroffen, wodurch der wertschopfende Teil des Geschaftsmodells stark beeintrachtigt wird....

Women to Watch presents the advice, guidance, and lessons learned from the most successful women in risk management and insurance. For the past 10 years, Business Insurance has highlighted key women in the field--women noted for their skills, accomplishments, courage, wisdom, and everyday steel. In this book, these women present their stories in their own words; through essays and anecdotes about key issues, key moments, and crucial lessons, former Women to Watch honorees provide a glimpse into what...

Targeted Social Assistance of Georgia is a last-resort social program that is considered a best practice among programs based on proxy means testing (PMT). It achieves high targeting accuracy for a relatively high level of poverty incidence. In 2013, the government of Georgia embarked on the revision of this program to ensure its continued effectiveness and to revise some of the parameters of the eligibility formula that could be subject to manipulation. In particular, the government was concerned about the subjective evaluation of social agents and about concealable goods giving room to...

Dieses Buch aus der Anti-Stress-Trainer-Reihe bietet eine Burnoutprophylaxe fur alle, die selbststandig in der Versicherungsbranche tatig sind. Die Welt der Finanzdienstleister/ Versicherungsmakler ist heute gepragt von Administration und Dokumentation. Zeit fur Vertrieb und Verkauf und ein ausgeglichenes Privatleben bleibt da sehr wenig, Stress und Burnout sind oft vorprogrammiert. Mit einer groen Portion Humor und Empathie widmet sich die Autorin diesem fur die Betroffenen so wichtigem Thema und liefert dabei viele wertvolle Tipps fur einen souveranen Umgang mit Stress. Die Autorin...

Continuous-Time Models in Corporate Finance synthesizes four decades of research to show how stochastic calculus can be used in corporate finance. Combining mathematical rigor with economic intuition, Santiago Moreno-Bromberg and Jean-Charles Rochet analyze corporate decisions such as dividend distribution, the issuance of securities, and capital structure and default. They pay particular attention to financial intermediaries, including banks and insurance companies.

The authors begin by recalling the ways that option-pricing techniques can be employed for the pricing of...