The extent to which the observed procedures for selling new issues are efficient is studied. We show that a posted-price mechanism, in conjunction with nonbinding preplay communication and participation restrictions, leads to an allocation of the security (and payment) that maximizes the seller's expected revenue, given the informational constraints imposed by the optimizing incentives of the p...

Insurance companies resort to investment and reinsurance, among other options, to manage their reseerves. This article addresses the problem of optimal investment and reinsurance when no short-selling and no borrowing allowed. More specifically, we assume that the risk process of the insurance company is a compound Poisson process perturbed by a standard Brownian motion and that the risk can be...