STRETCHING IN STUDENT LIFE

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, ...

The Student Life

Life satisfaction and student engagement in adolescents.

Situated within a positive psychology perspective, this study explored linkages between adolescent students' positive subjective well-being and their levels of engagement in schooling. Specifically, using structural equation modeling techniques, we evaluated the nature and directionality of longitudinal relationships between life satisfaction and student engagement variables. It was hypothesize...

Pattern for Graduate Student Company Life Cycle

Graduate Student Company (GSC) is an innovative educational model to teach entrepreneurship competencies based on the learning-by-doing methodology. It represents the formation of a studentoperated mini-company which functions like a limited company, and the members buy shares in the company though personal contributions. During the process of learning, the students understand the opportunities...

Teaching Large Student Cohorts in Second Life - Scalability Issues and Student Satisfaction in a Virtual World

There are high expectations on Second Life, a multi-user interactive virtual environment, to play a prominent role in higher education in the future. Across universities worldwide many projects aim to engage students in a variety of activities related to Second Life. However typically the number of students participating in those projects is small and the use of Second Life is an optional addit...