Essay 1 :![new window](/gs32/images/newin.png)
American Academy of Actuaries, 1999, Bibliographic Report to the National Association Insurance Commissioners - Insurance Securitization Working Group.
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Belonsky, G. M., 1998, Insurance-Linked Notes, Journal of Insurance Regulation 17(2), 170-178.
Bouzouita, R. and A. J. Young, 1998, Catastrophe Insurance Options, Journal of Insurance Regulation 16(3), 313-326.
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Briys, E., M. Bellalah, H. M. Mai and F. de Varenne, 1998, Options, Futures and Exotic Derivatives, Wiley, 230-233.
Canter, M. S., J. B. Cole and R. I. Sandor, 1997, Insurance Derivatives: A New Asset Class for the Capital Markets and a New Hedging Tool for the Insurance Industry, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 10, 69-83.
Chang, C., J. Chang and M.-T. Yu, 1996, Pricing Catastrophe Insurance Futures Call Spreads: A Randomized Operational Time Approach, Journal of Risk and Insurance 63, No. 4, 599-617.
Cox, J., J. Ingersoll and S. Ross, 1985, The Term Structure of Interest Rates, Econometrica 53, 385-407.
Cox, J. and S. Ross, 1976, The Valuation of Options for Alternative Stochastic Processes, Journal of Financial Economics 3, 145-166.
Cox, S. H. and R. G. Schwebach, 1992, Insurance Futures and Hedging Insurance Price Risk, The Journal of Risk and Insurance 59, 628-644.
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Cummins, J. D. and H. Geman, 1995, Pricing Catastrophe Futures and Call Spreads: An Arbitrage Approach, Journal of Fixed Income, March, 46-57.
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Duan J. C., A. Moreau and C. W. Sealey, 1995, Deposit Insurance and Bank Interest Rate Risk: Pricing and Regulatory Implication, Journal of Banking and Finance19, 1091-1108.
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Essay 2:
Britt, S., 1991, Greater of Benefits: Member Options in Defined Benefit Superannuation Plans, Transactions of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, 77-118.
Hsieh, S. J., A. H. Chen and K. R. Ferris, 1994, The Valuation of PBGC Insurance Using an Option Pricing Model, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 29, 89-99.
Cox, J. C., J. E. Ingersoll and S. A. Ross, 1985, A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates, Econometrica, 53, 385-407.
Kalra, R. and G. Jain, 1997, A Continuous-Time Model to Determine The Intervention Policy For PBGC, Journal of Banking and Finance, 21, 1159-77.
Marcus, A. J., 1987, Corporate Pensions Policy and the Value of PBGC insurance, in Bodie, Z., J. Shoven and D. A. Wise (Eds), Issues in Pension Economics, University of Chicago Press, 49-79.
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Essay 3 :
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Cox, J. C., J. E. Ingersoll and S. A. Ross, 1985, A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates, Econometrica, 53, 385-407.
Duan, J.-C., A. Moreau and C. W. Sealeyand, 1995, Deposit Insurance and Bank Interest Rate Risk: Pricing and Regulation Implications, Journal of Banking and Finance, 19, 1091-1108.
Hsieh, S. J., A. H. Chen and K. R. Ferris, 1994, The Valuation of PBGC Insurance Using an Option Pricing Model, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 29, 89-99.
Kalra, R. and G. Jain, 1997, A Continuous-Time Model to Determine The Intervention Policy For PBGC, Journal of Banking and Finance, 21, 1159-77.
Langetieg, T. C., M.C. Findlay and L. F. J. daMotta, 1982, Multiperiod Pension Plans and ERISA, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 17, 603-31.
Marcus, A. J., 1987, Corporate Pensions Policy and the Value of PBGC insurance, in Bodie, Z., J. Shoven and D. A. Wise (Eds), Issues in Pension Economics, University of Chicago Press, 49-79.
Pennacchi, G. G. and C. M. Lewis, 1994, The Value of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Insurance, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 26, 735-56.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1999, The Pension Insurance Data Book.
Sharpe, W.F., 1976, Corporate Pension Funding Policy, Journal of Financial Economics, 3, 183--93.
Treynor, J. L., 1977, The Principles of Corporate Pension Finance, Journal of Finance, 32, 627-38.
U.S. General Accounting Office, 1998, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Final Condition Improving, but Long-Term Risk Remain, GAO/HEHS-99-5.