2009 Winter CAS E-Forum
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Table of Contents
2009 Ratemaking Call Papers
Measuring Rate Change
Neil M. Bodoff, FCAS, MAAA
Incorporating a Primary Insurer’s Risk Load into the Property Rate
Kevin Burke
Revenue Management & Insurance Cycle
J-B Crozet, FIA, CFA
Class Ratemaking for Workers Compensation: NCCI’s New Methodology
Tom Daley, ACAS, MAAA
More Flexible GLMs: Zero-Inflated Models and Hybrid Models
Mathew Flynn, Ph.D., and Louise A. Francis, FCAS, MAAA
Profit Margins Using Co-Measures of Risk
Mark J. Homan, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU
including component margin examples
Comparison of Minimum Bias and Maximum Likelihood Methods for Claim
Severity
Noriszura Ismail, Ph.D. and Abdul Aziz Jemain, Ph.D
Disparate Impact and Unfairly Discriminatory Insurance Rates
Michael J. Miller
Monitoring Renewal Rate Change on Cat-Exposed Excess Property Business
Ira Robbin, Ph.D
Statistical Trend Estimation with Application to Workers Compensation Ratemaking
Frank Schmid
Cost of Capital Estimation with Application to Workers Compensation Ratemaking
Frank Schmid and Martin Wolf
Applications of the Offset in Property-Casualty Predictive Modeling
Jun Yan, Ph.D., James Guszcza, FCAS, MAAA, Ph.D., Matthew Flynn, Ph.D., and
Cheng-Sheng Peter Wu, FCAS, ASA, MAAA
Additional Papers
ERM and Actuaries
David Ingram
Large Scale Analysis of Persistency and Renewal Discounts for Property and
Casualty Insurance
Cheng-Sheng Peter Wu, FCAS, ASA, MAAA, and Hua Lin, FCAS, MAAA, Ph.D
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