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Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance

eMAF2020

  • Non-dispersive papers on quantitative studies in actuarial sciences, insurance and finance
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Table of contents (58 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. On the Use of Mixed Sampling in Modelling Realized Volatility: The MEM–MIDAS

    • Alessandra Amendola, Vincenzo Candila, Fabrizio Cipollini, Giampiero M. Gallo
    Pages 7-13
  3. Simultaneous Prediction Intervals for Forecasting EUR/USD Exchange Rate

    • Ilaria Lucrezia Amerise, Agostino Tarsitano
    Pages 15-20
  4. Potential of Reducing Crop Insurance Subsidy Based on Willingness to Pay and Random Forest Analysis

    • Rahma Anisa, Dian Kusumaningrum, Valantino Agus Sutomo, Ken Seng Tan
    Pages 27-32
  5. A Stochastic Volatility Model for Optimal Market-Making

    • Zubier Arfan, Paul Johnson
    Pages 33-38
  6. Method for Forecasting Mortality Based on Key Rates

    • David Atancd, Alejandro Balbas, Eliseo Navarro
    Pages 39-43
  7. Resampling Methods to Assess the Forecasting Ability of Mortality Models

    • David Atance, Ana Debón, Eliseo Navarro
    Pages 45-50
  8. Portfolio Optimization with Nonlinear Loss Aversion and Transaction Costs

    • Alessandro Avellone, Anna Maria Fiori, Ilaria Foroni
    Pages 51-56
  9. Monte Carlo Valuation of Future Annuity Contracts

    • Anna Rita Bacinello, Pietro Millossovich, Fabio Viviano
    Pages 57-62
  10. A Risk Based Approach for the Solvency Capital Requirement for Health Plans

    • Fabio Baione, Davide Biancalana, Paolo De Angelis
    Pages 63-69
  11. Periodic Autoregressive Models for Stochastic Seasonality

    • Roberto Baragona, Francesco Battaglia, Domenico Cucina
    Pages 79-85
  12. Behavioral Aspects in Portfolio Selection

    • Diana Barro, Marco Corazza, Martina Nardon
    Pages 87-93
  13. Stochastic Dominance in the Outer Distributions of the \(\alpha \)-Efficiency Domain

    • Sergio Bianchi, Augusto Pianese, Massimiliano Frezza, Anna Maria Palazzo
    Pages 95-101
  14. Modelling Topics of Car Accidents Events: A Text Mining Approach

    • Gabriele Cantaluppi, Diego Zappa
    Pages 117-122
  15. A Bayesian Generalized Poisson Model for Cyber Risk Analysis

    • Giulia Carallo, Roberto Casarin, Christian P. Robert
    Pages 123-128

About this book

The cooperation and contamination between mathematicians, statisticians and econometricians working in actuarial sciences and finance is improving the research on these topics and producing numerous meaningful scientific results. This volume presents new ideas, in the form of four- to six-page papers, presented at the International Conference eMAF2020 – Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance. Due to the now sadly famous COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held remotely through the Zoom platform offered by the Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on September 18, 22 and 25, 2020.

eMAF2020 is the ninth edition of an international biennial series of scientific meetings, started in 2004 at the initiative of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Salerno. The effectiveness of this idea has been proven by wide participation in all editions, which have been held in Salerno (2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014), Venice (2008, 2012 and 2020), Paris (2016) and Madrid (2018).

This book covers a wide variety of subjects: artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance and insurance, behavioral finance, credit risk methods and models, dynamic optimization in finance, financial data analytics, forecasting dynamics of actuarial and financial phenomena, foreign exchange markets, insurance models, interest rate models, longevity risk, models and methods for financial time series analysis, multivariate techniques for financial markets analysis, pension systems, portfolio selection and management, real-world finance, risk analysis and management, trading systems, and others.

This volume is a valuable resource for academics, PhD students, practitioners, professionals and researchers. Moreover, it is also of interest to other readers with quantitative background knowledge.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italy

    Marco Corazza, Claudio Pizzi

  • Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM), University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland

    Manfred Gilli

  • Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Cira Perna, Marilena Sibillo

About the editors

Marco Corazza, PhD in "Mathematics for the Analysis of Financial Markets", is an associate professor at the Department of Economics of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Among his main research interests are static and dynamic portfolio management theories; trading system models; machine learning applications in finance; bioinspired metaheuristics for optimization; multicriteria methods for economic decision support; nonstandard probability distributions in finance; and port scheduling models and algorithms. He has participated and participates in several research projects, both at the national and international levels. He is an author/coauthor of approximately one hundred thirty scientific publications; some of them have received national and international awards. He is also editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal “Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance”, editor of Springer books, and has been and is member of the scientific committees of several conferences and of some private companies. His combined academic activity with consulting services.

Manfred Gilli is Professor emeritus at the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva, where he has taught numerical methods in economics and finance. He is also a faculty member of the Swiss Finance Institute, a member of the Advisory Board of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and a member of the editorial board of Computational Economics. He formerly served as president of the Society for Computational Economics.

Cira Perna is a full professor of statistics at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Salerno (Italy). Since 2018, she has been elected a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Statistical Society; since 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Salerno; since the first edition of the Conference, in 2004, she has been a chair of the international conference MAF and guest editor of the associated international journals; and since 2006, she has been an Editor of the Springer books MAF. Her research work mainly focuses on nonlinear time series, artificial neural network models and resampling techniques. On these topics, she has published numerous papers in national and international journals. She has participated in several research projects, both at the national and international levels, and she has been a member of several scientific committees of national and international conferences.

Claudio Pizzi is an associate professor at the Department of Economics of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he teaches statistical methods for financial and monetary markets and business statistics. His research is focused mainly on statistical analysis of financial time series, linear and nonlinear models for time series, technical analysis, trading system models, bioinspired metaheuristics for optimization, and systemic risk. Hehas participated in both national and international research projects. He is a member of the editorial board of “Statistical Method and Applications”.

Marilena Sibillo is a full professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Salerno and is currently a contract professor of Financial Mathematics in the 2020/2021 academic year at Luiss University in Rome. In 2012, she was awarded a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence, and since 2013, she has been a Paul Harris Fellow. She had national and international awards related to teaching. Since 2006, she has been an editor of the Springer books MAF and Finance and a guest editor of international journals. Since 2004, she has been chair of the international conference MAF, and since 2016, she has been chair of the UNISActuarial School. She is an author of more than 100 papers mostly published in international journals and books. Her scientific activity mainly deals with risk theory, analysis and control of the interactions between financial and demographic risks, variable annuities, stochastic mortality, and innovative pension contracts.

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