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Less is more: increasing retirement gains by using an upside terminal wealth constraint 

Donnelly, Catherine; Gerrard, Russell; Guillén, Montserrat; Nielsen, Jens Perch (Publication date: 2016-04-26)

We solve a portfolio selection problem of an investor with a deterministic savings plan who aims to have a target wealth value at retirement. The investor is an expected power utility-maximizer. The target wealth value is ...

On the practical implementation of retirement gains by using an upside and a downside terminal wealth constraint 

Donnelly, Catherine; Guillén, Montserrat; Nielsen, Jens Perch; Pérez Marín, Ana María (Publication date: 2016-04-26)

We analyze an investment strategy for an investor with a savings plan for retirement consisting on constraining the terminal wealth accumulated after the savings period by setting an upper and lower bound. We carry out a ...

Impacto de los accidentes domésticos y de ocio en las tasas de discapacidad y costes de cuidados de larga duración en España 

Alemany Leira, Ramon; Ayuso, Mercedes; Guillén, Montserrat (Publication date: 2018-12-14)

Los accidentes domésticos y de ocio son una de las principales causas de mortalidad por causa diferente al envejecimiento, y tienen un elevado impacto en los sistemas de salud. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha, ...

Estimación del riesgo mediante el ajuste de cópulas 

Bolancé Losilla, Catalina; Guillén, Montserrat; Padilla Barreto, Alemar Elaine (Publication date: 2016-04-18)

El propósito de éste trabajo, es presentar una forma de cuantificar el valor en riesgo de una cartera de activos mediante dos medidas de riesgo ampliamente conocidas como lo son el VaR y el TVaR. Para ello, utilizamos ...

Non-parametric Models for Univariate Claim Severity Distributions - an approach using R 

Bolancé Losilla, Catalina; Guillén, Montserrat; Pitt, David (Publication date: 2016-05-09)

This paper presents an analysis of motor vehicle insurance claims relating to vehicle damage and to associated medical expenses. We use univariate severity distributions estimated with non-parametric methods. The methods ...

Is the educational health gap increasing for women? Results from Catalonia (Spain) 

Solé i Auró, Aïda; Alcañiz, Manuela (Publication date: 2016-04-26)

Health expectancies vary worldwide according to socioeconomic status (SES). The lower SES usually show health disadvantage and the higher SES a health advantage compared to the average. The educational level of individuals ...

Mortality and longevity risks in the United Kingdom: Dynamic factor models and copula-functions 

Chuliá Soler, Helena; Guillén, Montserrat; Uribe Gil, Jorge Mario (Publication date: 2016-04-26)

We present a methodology to forecast mortality rates and estimate longevity and mortality risks. The methodology uses Generalized Dynamic Factor Models fitted over the differences of the log-mortality rates. We compare ...

What attitudes to risk underlie distortion risk measure choices? [WP] 

Belles Sampera, Jaume; Guillén, Montserrat; Santolino, Miguel (Publication date: 2016-04-26)

Understanding the attitude to risk implicit within a risk measure sheds some light on the way in which decision makers perceive losses. In this paper, a two-stage strategy is developed to characterize the underlying risk ...

Accounting for severity of risk when pricing insurance products 

Alemany Leira, Ramon; Bolancé Losilla, Catalina; Guillén, Montserrat (Publication date: 2016-05-09)

We design a system for improving the calculation of the price to be charged for an insurance product. Standard pricing techniques generally take into account the expected severity of potential losses. However, the severity ...

Impact of home and leisure accident rates on disability and costs of long term care in Spain 

Alemany Leira, Ramon; Ayuso, Mercedes; Guillén, Montserrat (Publication date: 2018-12-14)

Home and leisure accidents are one of the main causes of mortality due to other causes than aging, and have a high impact on health systems. However, to date, the number of studies associated with measuring ...

Ageing and health-related quality of life: evidence from Catalonia (Spain) [WP-RC] 

Alcañiz, Manuela; Solé i Auró, Aïda (Publication date: 2018-02-21)

Reaching advanced old age is more common now than ever. The sustained growth in longevity raises questions about why some people can feel in good quality of life until the last stages, while others seem to accuse the natural ...

Improving automobile insurance ratemaking using telematics: incorporating mileage and driver behaviour data [WP] 

Ayuso, Mercedes; Guillén, Montserrat; Nielsen, Jens Perch (Publication date: 2017-10-26)

We show how data collected from a GPS device can be incorporated in motor insurance ratemaking. The calculation of premium rates based upon driver behaviour represents an opportunity for the insurance sector. Our approach ...

Desarrollo metodológico del modelo actuarial de múltiples estados casado – viudo y cálculo actuarial del coste por pensiones de jubilación y viudedad 

Alaminos Aguilera, Estefanía; Ayuso, Mercedes (Publication date: 2016-04-26)

El objetivo de este trabajo es desarrollar metodológicamente un modelo actuarial de múltiples estados que permita probabilizar la transición entre los estados civiles casado-viudo para individuos de una determinada edad ...

Optimal personalized treatment rules for marketing interventions: A review of methods, a new proposal, and an insurance case study 

Guelman, Leo; Guillén, Montserrat; Pérez Marín, Ana María (Publication date: 2016-05-09)

In many important settings, subjects can show signi cant heterogeneity in response to a stimulus or treatment". For instance, a treatment that works for the overall population might be highly ine ective, or even harmful, ...

Causality and Contagion in EMU Sovereign Debt Markets [WP] 

Gómez-Puig, Marta; Sosvilla Rivero, Simón (Publication date: 2014-05-29)

This paper contributes to the literature by applying the Granger causality approach and endogenous breakpoint test to offer an operational definition of contagion to examine European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) ...

Dollarization and the relationship between EMBI and fundamentals Latin American countries [WP] 

Marí del Cristo, María Lorena; Gómez-Puig, Marta (Publication date: 2014-05-29)

This paper presents empirical evidence on the interrelationship that exists between the evolution of the Emerging Markets Bonds Index (EMBI) and some macroeconomic variables in seven Latin American countries; two of them ...

An update on EMU sovereign yield spread drivers in times of crisis: A panel data analysis [WP] 

Gómez-Puig, Marta; Sosvilla Rivero, Simón; Ramos Herrera, María del Carmen (Publication date: 2014-05-29)

We empirically investigate the determinants of EMU sovereign bond yield spreads with respect to the German bund. Using panel data techniques, we examine the role of a wide set of potential drivers. To our knowledge, this ...

A joint longitudinal and survival model with health care usage for insured elderly 

Piulachs Lozada-Benavente, Xavier; Alemany Leira, Ramon; Guillén, Montserrat (Publication date: 2016-05-09)

We study longevity and usage of medical resources of a sample of individuals aged 65 years or more who are covered by a private insurance policy. A longitudinal analysis is presented, where the yearly cumulative number of ...

The use of flexible quantile-based measures in risk assessment [WP] 

Belles Sampera, Jaume; Guillén, Montserrat; Santolino, Miguel (Publication date: 2014-09-30)

A new family of distortion risk measures -GlueVaR- is proposed in Belles- Sampera et al. -2013- to procure a risk assessment lying between those provided by common quantile-based risk measures. GlueVaR risk measures may ...

European government bond market integration in turbulent times [WP] 

Abad, Pilar; Chuliá Soler, Helena (Publication date: 2014-10-22)

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of European government bond market integration during the financial crisis and, subsequently, during the European sovereign debt crisis. Based on the approach developed by Bae et ...