Publications

July 1989
Article

On the Application of the Continuous-Time Theory of Finance to Financial Intermediation and Insurance

Keywords: Theory; Finance; Insurance

June 1989 (Revised July 1993)
Case

CIGNA Worldwide

By: John A. Quelch

A CIGNA Worldwide (CWW) task group of European country directors and key functional managers is meeting in November 1988 to discuss how CWW should respond to the European Community's plan to remove existing internal barriers and restrictions to the free flow of goods... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Insurance; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insurance Industry; Europe

1987
Chapter

Pension Plan Integration as Insurance against Social Security Risk

By: Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie and Alan J. Marcus

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Integration

July 1987
Case

Prudential Insurance Co. of America--1985

By: Andre F. Perold

Keywords: Insurance Industry; United States

April 1987
Background Note

Note on Accounting for Property and Casualty Insurance Companies

By: Andre F. Perold

Keywords: Accounting; Insurance; Insurance Industry

1986
Other Unpublished Work

Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance

By: André Perold

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Strategy

October 1985
Supplement

Merrill Lynch: Underwriting Beverly Enterprises (B)

By: Dwight B. Crane

Keywords: Insurance; Insurance Industry

1985
Chapter

Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Contracts; Labor and Management Relations; Insurance

August 1984 (Revised March 1994)
Case

The Toro Company S'no Risk Program

By: David E. Bell

Toro introduced a promotion in which purchasers of their snowthrower would receive a refund if the next winter brought only modest snowfall. The principal focus of the class is to understand what the risk implications are for the customer and for the company. May be... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Customers; Insurance

Educators

Purchase

1983
Article

Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser

Keywords: Insurance; Failure

September 1982
Article

Risk Aversion and the Negotiation of Insurance Contracts

By: R. Kihlstrom and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Negotiation; Insurance

November 1981 (Revised January 1984)
Background Note

Note on the Property-Casualty Business

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Insurance

November 1981 (Revised February 1994)
Background Note

Life Insurance

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Insurance

1981
Case

Town of Holden Health Insurance Procurement

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Health; Local Range; Insurance; Financial Management

1980
Chapter

Measuring Consumer Satisfaction and Complaint Behavior: A Study of Financial Services and Insurance

By: J. Quelch and S. Ash

May 1979 (Revised March 1984)
Case

Quality Life of New York

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Insurance Industry; New York (state, US)

July 1978
Article

On the Cost of Deposit Insurance When There Are Surveillance Costs

Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Banking Industry

1977
Working Paper

Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

By: Jerry R. Green

A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details

Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty

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June 1977
Article

An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees : An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory

Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Financing and Loans; Price; Theory