1.
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 26 Sep 2005
Last Revised: 05 May 2008
Working Paper Series
American University - Kogod School of Business and University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Finance
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17,488
2.
Asymmetric Information, Heterogeneity in Risk Perceptions and Insurance: An Explanation to a Puzzle
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 18 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - Finance Group
Downloads
15,211
3.
Non-Life Insurance: Mathematics & Statistics
Number of pages: 315
Posted: 03 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
RiskLab, ETH Zurich
Downloads
13,051
4.
The Subprime Credit Crisis of 07
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, Natixis and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Downloads
9,286
5.
Data Analytics for Non-Life Insurance Pricing
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 16-68
Number of pages: 249
Posted: 17 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Working Paper Series
RiskLab, ETH Zurich and AXA-Winterthur
Downloads
8,631
6.
Buffett's Alpha
Financial Analysts Journal, 2018, 74 (4): 35-55
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 30 Jun 2018
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
AQR Capital Management, LLC, AQR Capital Management, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC
There are 2 versions of this paper
Downloads
9,965
Buffett's Alpha
Financial Analysts Journal, 2018, 74 (4): 35-55
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 30 Jun 2018
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Downloads
8,255
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8,255
7.
Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008
American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 05 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Downloads
7,091
8.
Value at Risk Models in Finance
ECB Working Paper No. 75
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 25 Feb 2003
Working Paper Series
European Central Bank (ECB) and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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6,781
9.
Applied Financial Marketing - Myth Versus Reality
Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 21, pp. 55-66, 2007
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 27 Nov 2007
Last Revised: 08 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Capco Institute, Capco and Capco
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6,576
10.
Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 04 Aug 2006
Working Paper Series
Nationwide Insurance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 04 Aug 2006
Downloads
5,662
Enterprise Risk Management: Theory and Practice
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 8-20, Fall 2006
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 15 Feb 2007
Downloads
23
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5,662
11.
Understanding Modern Banking Ledgers Through Blockchain Technologies: Future of Transaction Processing and Smart Contracts on the Internet of Money
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 24 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
University of California Santa Barbara and University College London - Financial Computing and Analytics Group, Department of Computer Science
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5,238
12.
Optimal Insurance Under Adverse Selection and Ambiguity Aversion
WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 31 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - Finance Group and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Optimal Insurance Under Adverse Selection and Ambiguity Aversion
WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 31 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Downloads
5,117
Optimal Insurance Under Adverse Selection and Ambiguity Aversion
WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 229
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 18 Feb 2015
Downloads
144
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5,117
13.
Real World Index Annuity Returns
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Last Revised: 06 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Finance and Insurance Departments, Purdue University Global and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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4,752
14.
Audit Risk, Complex Technology, & Auditing Processes
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 01 May 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Windsor - Odette School of Business and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University - School of Business & Economics
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4,706
15.
Risk Management: History, Definition and Critique
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 06 Sep 2013
Working Paper Series
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk Management: History, Definition and Critique
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 06 Sep 2013
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4,121
Risk Management: History, Definition, and Critique
Risk Management and Insurance Review, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 147-166, 2013
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 16 Nov 2013
Downloads
2
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4,121
16.
The Value of Enterprise Risk Management
Journal of Risk and Insurance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Georgia - C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business and University of Mississippi - School of Business Administration
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Value of Enterprise Risk Management
Journal of Risk and Insurance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 30 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2010
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3,745
The Value of Enterprise Risk Management
Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 78, Issue 4, pp. 795-822, 2011
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 24 Nov 2011
Downloads
5
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3,745
17.
The Indian Insurance Industry: Challenges and Prospects
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 15 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Chennai Mathematical Institute
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3,675
18.
Case Study: French Motor Third-Party Liability Claims
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 18 Apr 2018
Last Revised: 05 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
PartnerRe Ltd - PartnerRe Holdings Europe Limited, SIGNAL IDUNA Reinsurance Ltd and RiskLab, ETH Zurich
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3,365
19.
Shadow Insurance
Econometrica, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2016, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 14-64
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 06 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 19 May 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Princeton University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Shadow Insurance
Econometrica, Vol. 84, No. 3, 2016, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 14-64
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 06 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 19 May 2016
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3,300
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3,300
20.
Deep Learning Volatility
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 07 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Working Paper Series
ETH Zürich - Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London and Ecole Polytechnique
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3,275
21.
Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, and the Role of Institutional Investors: A Global Perspective
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 10 Jan 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of Georgia - Department of Finance and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, and the Role of Institutional Investors: A Global Perspective
Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 2003-01
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 27 Sep 2003
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9,441
Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, and the Role of Institutional Investors: A Global Perspective
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 10 Jan 2005
Downloads
3,192
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3,192
22.
Term Structure Estimation
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 21 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 06 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Isenberg School of Management and University of Murcia - Faculty of Business and Economics
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3,168
23.
Capital Allocation in Financial Firms
Harvard Business School No. 98-072
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 25 Apr 2001
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
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3,136
24.
SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) Implied by the Serology, Antibody, Testing in New York City
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 11 May 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - College of Business Administration
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2,917
25.
Strategic Rebalancing
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 17 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 20 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
Man Group plc, Man AHL, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Man AHL
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2,848
26.
Terrorism and the Stock Market
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Barclays Global Investors
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2,825
27.
Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads
Journal of Financial Economics 92 (2009), pp. 300-319
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 18 Nov 2005
Last Revised: 31 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
Harvard University
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2,824
28.
Productivity and Efficiency in Insurance: An Overview of the Issues
96-57
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 06 May 1997
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science
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2,723
29.
Impact Investing
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 20 Dec 2015
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
University of California, Davis, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management
There are 2 versions of this paper
Impact Investing
NBER Working Paper No. w26582
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 24 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Downloads
11
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2,672
30.
Machine Learning in Individual Claims Reserving
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 16-67
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 11 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Working Paper Series
RiskLab, ETH Zurich
Downloads
2,670
31.
Financial Markets and Institutions in the Arab Economy
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 19 Oct 2007
Working Paper Series
Birzeit University
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2,618
32.
Infrastructure as an Asset Class
EIB Papers, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 70-105, 2010
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 11 Jun 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Inderst Advisory
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2,513
33.
AI in Actuarial Science
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
SA Taxi
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2,436
34.
Welfare-Improving Ambiguity in Insurance Markets with Asymmetric Information
WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 190
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 31 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 26 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - Finance Group and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Downloads
2,392
35.
Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in India
National Stock Exchange of India Research Initiative Paper No. 15
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 12 May 2003
Working Paper Series
XLRI Jamshedpur
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2,307
36.
The Regional Financial Institutions: The Arab Development Funds
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 18 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Birzeit University
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2,240
37.
The Solvency II Process: Overview and Critical Analysis
Risk Management and Insurance Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 69-85
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of St. Gallen - Institute of Insurance Economics, University of Muenster - Faculty of Economics and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Solvency II Process: Overview and Critical Analysis
Risk Management and Insurance Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 69-85
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2013
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2,102
The Solvency Ii Process: Overview and Critical Analysis
Risk Management and Insurance Review, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 69-85, 2007
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 09 Apr 2012
Downloads
1
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2,102
38.
Who Qualifies as an Audit Committee Financial Expert Under SEC Regulations and NYSE Rules?
11 DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal (Winter 2013)
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 30 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 16 Aug 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
2,070
39.
Optimal Asset Allocation Towards the End of the Life Cycle: To Annuitize or Not to Annuitize?
FAS#21-96
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 06 Nov 1996
Working Paper Series
York University - Schulich School of Business
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2,069
40.
Digital Finance and Fintech: Current Research and Future Research Directions
Journal of Business Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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2,040
41.
Why Stewardship is Proving Elusive for Institutional Investors
Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, pp. 406-411, July/August 2010 , Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-28
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 09 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Accepted Paper Series
There are 2 versions of this paper
Why Stewardship is Proving Elusive for Institutional Investors
Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, pp. 406-411, July/August 2010 , Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-28
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 09 Jul 2010
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
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2,039
How Institutional Investors Should Step Up as Owners
The McKinsey Quarterly, September 2010
(reprinted in McKinsey on Finance, Autumn 2010)
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 14 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 20 May 2011
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239
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2,039
42.
Marking to Market: Panacea or Pandora's Box?
Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 435-460, 2008
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 30 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 11 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
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2,016
43.
Market Consistent Embedded Values as 'Fair Value' Measurements for Life Insurance Accounting: A Step Too Far With Finance Theory?
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 11 Jan 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Accounting and Finance and Harvard Business School
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1,970
44.
The Beneficial Coexistence of Banks and Markets: The Role of Capital Requirements and Underwriting
WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 194
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 11 Nov 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Bristol and University of Warwick - Finance Group
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1,941
45.
Bancassurance in India: Who is Tying the Knot and Why
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 06 May 2005
Working Paper Series
Chennai Mathematical Institute
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1,897
46.
The Insurance Performance Measure: Bringing Value to the Insurance Industry
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 94-99, 2002
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 10 Aug 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University - Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis and Quinnipiac University
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1,857
47.
M&A Contracts: Purposes, Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice
Research Handbook on Mergers and Acquisitions, Forthcoming, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 292/2015
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 16 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 12 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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1,840
48.
Stochastic Claims Reserving Manual: Advances in Dynamic Modeling
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 15-34
Number of pages: 322
Posted: 23 Aug 2015
Working Paper Series
RiskLab, ETH Zurich and University of Hamburg
Downloads
1,828
49.
Comparison of Historical and Parametric Value-at-Risk Methodologies
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 18 Nov 2009
Working Paper Series
BNP Paribas, Risk - Investment & Markets
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1,813
50.
An Analysis of the Evolution of Insurance in India
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 26 Apr 2005
Working Paper Series
Chennai Mathematical Institute
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1,731
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