Evaluating Pension Insurance Pricing

Portfolio Choice and Fair Pricing in Life and Pension Insurance

We investigate the implications of optimal portfolio choice on fair pricing of specific pension insurance contracts. We motivate that the manager of the insurance company should optimize utility of final payout for the policy holders. The payout to the policy holder is highly non-linear in wealth, implying that the optimization problem is non-trivial. Still, we find closed form solutions. Simul...

Pricing Unemployment Insurance in Iran

Abstract Employees always concern about losing their job, or in other word, losing their income resources. For this purpose, governments require strong protection system for covering these concerns. The Unemployment Insurance (UI) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. Based on article five of Iranian unemployment Insurance law, premium is four percent of employee’s salary while emplo...

Evaluating Pension Reform

pricing unemployment insurance : the case of iran

employees always concern about losing their job , or in other word , losing their income resources. for this purpose, every government requires strong system for covering these concerns. the unemployment insurance (ui) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. in this thesis, we price ui based on the insurance history of employee and the duration of being unemployed. we use the weibull dis...

Pension Risk, Retirement Saving and Insurance

Using a representative sample of Italian investors, we estimate the risk associated with pension benefits by eliciting for each individual the subjective distribution of the replacement rate as a summary indicator of social security wealth. We find substantial heterogeneity of pension risk and show that it is consistently related to observable features in the pension system that have different ...