Multi-national underwriting cycles in property-liability insurance: Part II – model extensions and further empirical results

Journal of Risk Finance

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-97

  Meier, Ursina B ^a,b  

^a Union Bank of Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Finance; Liability; mathematical modelling; Property insurance; Underwriting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015369827     PISSN: 15265943     EISSN: 09657967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/15265940610637825     Document Type: Article

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