We analyze the effect competition has on the decisions of life insurance companies. In particular, we are interested in the companies’ choices of policy rates and investment strategies given that they have issued contracts with a minimum rate of return guarantee. Our modeling framework is a one-period Cournot model of duopoly. We find policy rates and investment strategies that sustain a Nash e...

This paper discusses the changes in Information Technology (IT) investment philosophy of both private and public sector companies. Based on the available published material in scholarly journals and magazines, our analysis is focused on the USA and the UK. The paper analyzes the past and current behaviors of business investments in technology and the factors that have prompted companies to chan...

The economics of investment in cyber security is a widely researched field. This paper describes the use of a multi-player collaborative exercise implemented on computers to help companies better understand investment decisions in cyber security. The investment model driving the collaborative exercise is an expected-value decision analysis that compares the reduction of cyber risks with other i...

in order to have a succesful investment companies, their activities in this very complicated bussines enviroment, require to indentify the facing threats and have definitely deep knowledge of all difficulties beforehand. in this regards looking at strategic risks (potetial forces which can destabilize the system of strategy and have a considerable negative effect on the investigating campany’s ...

China’s pension system is facing a large gap of more than one trillion RMB. The investment efficiency of the social security fund therefore receives widespread attention in academic circles. We collected data of stocks held by the Chinese National Council for Social Security Fund (CNCSSF) from 2004 to 2012 to research the stocks’ investment efficiency, distinguishing between direct investment b...