Liu Zaifu's Three Voyages of Life

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Literary Nationalism and Ambivalence in Washington Irving's The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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1 Department of Pharmacy, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou, 221002, Jiangsu, China 2 Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, China 3 Environment Protection Research Institute of Xuzhou, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China 4 Department of Anesthesia, Xuzhou Medical College, 84 West Huaihai Road, Xuzh...

Peyton Rous and his voyages of discovery.