Projects
Knowing me, knowing you - Reputation information as indirect control KU Leuven
This dissertation investigates how reputation information can be used as a control tool to diminish the risk of being exploited by an opportunistic seller. In business transactions, there is an information-asymmetry between buyers and sellers that sellers can exploit, when buyers cannot assess the quality of the product or service up-front. Chapter One focuses on how formal control systems are related to long-term relationships based on ...
A STUDY OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE AUDIT QUALITY OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN VIETNAMESE LISTED COMPANIESS IN VIETNAMESE LISTED KU Leuven
Establishing and developing an independent audit industry plays a significantly important part in a market economy, especially for developing countries, in the international integration process. In countries with highly developed market mechanisms, independent audit activities have been long familiar to all enterprises. All financial reports, mainly financial statements, are audited by auditors from audit companies before ...
Econometric models for insurance applications: essays on Bayesian mortality models, heavy tails and extreme value statistics with censored data. KU Leuven
Life insurers, pension funds, health care providers and social security institutions face increasing expenses due to continuing improvements of mortality rates. The actuarial and demographic literature has introduced a myriad of (deterministic and stochastic) models to forecast mortality rates of single and multiple populations.
Chapter 2 in this PhD thesis presents aBayesian analysis of two related multi-population mortality models of ...
Reserving for health and general insurance contracts. Essays on transferability mechanisms and micro-level techniques. KU Leuven
SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY (English)
The research in this PhD dissertation contributes to the non-life insurance reserving literature. We focus on two specific research questions: (1) the development of the actuarial techniques to appropriately handle the unpredictable medical inflation in context of private health insurance contracts with transferable reserves and (2) the development of micro-level claims reserving techniques that provide an ...