A Poisson log-bilinear regression approach to the construction of projected lifetables

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 373-393

  Brouhns, Natacha ^a   Denuit, Michael ^a   Vermunt, Joroen K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Age sex specific mortality; Annuities; Life insurance; Lifetable functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037146860     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6687(02)00185-3     Document Type: Article

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