Rating on life valuation scale

On the Valuation of Corporate Bonds Using Rating-based Models

Inappropriate rating scale.

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Insurance Contract Valuation, Experience Rating, and Asymmetric Information

The study follows previous work on the role of experience rating in resolving information asymmetry problems in insurance contracting. Results of the study provide additional evidence that contracts which are experience-rated are less susceptible to pricing inefficiency due to moral hazard and adverse selection than are contracts which are not experience-rated. This study extends previous work ...

Investigating rating scale category utility.

Eight guidelines are suggested to aid the analyst in investigating whether rating scales categories are cooperating to produce observations on which valid measurement can be based. These guidelines are presented within the context of Rasch analysis. They address features of rating-scale-based data such as category frequency, ordering, rating-to-measure inferential coherence, and the quality of ...

Pairwise Comparisons Rating Scale Paradox

This study demonstrates that incorrect data are entered into a pairwise comparisons matrix for processing into weights for the data collected by a rating scale. Unprocessed rating scale data lead to a paradox. A solution to it, based on normalization, is proposed. This is an essential correction for virtually all pairwise comparisons methods using rating scales. The illustration of the relative...