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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19,366
2.
Non-Life Insurance: Mathematics & Statistics
Number of pages: 319
Posted: 03 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 09 Jan 2023
Working Paper Series
RiskLab, ETH Zurich
Downloads
19,187
3.
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
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
16,649
Buffett's Alpha
NBER Working Paper No. w19681
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 28 Nov 2013
Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
Downloads
10,800
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16,649
4.
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
15,226
5.
Data Analytics for Non-Life Insurance Pricing
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 16-68
Number of pages: 292
Posted: 17 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2023
Working Paper Series
RiskLab, ETH Zurich and AXA-Winterthur
Downloads
13,863
6.
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
9,427
7.
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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8,063
8.
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
Downloads
7,508
9.
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
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7,276
10.
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
Downloads
6,580
11.
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
Downloads
6,474
12.
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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6,265
13.
Risk Management: History, Definition and Critique
Risk Management and Insurance Review 16, 2, 147-166, 2013
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 18 Jan 2023
Accepted Paper Series
HEC Montreal - Department of Finance
Downloads
6,223
14.
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
Downloads
6,027
15.
Deep Learning Volatility
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 07 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 20 Jul 2021
Working Paper Series
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Oxford Man Institute, Imperial College London and Ecole Polytechnique
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5,270
16.
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
5,163
Optimal Insurance Under Adverse Selection and Ambiguity Aversion
WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 229
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 18 Feb 2015
Downloads
157
Downloads
5,163
17.
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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5,023
18.
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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4,840
19.
AI in Actuarial Science
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
Old Mutual Insure
Downloads
4,078
20.
The Indian Insurance Industry: Challenges and Prospects
Number of pages: 84
Posted: 15 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Chennai Mathematical Institute
Downloads
4,044
21.
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
Downloads
4,010
22.
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: 23 Feb 2023
Downloads
149
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3,845
23.
Let's Talk About the Weather: The Impact of Climate Change on Central Banks
Bank of England Working Paper No. 603
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 24 May 2016
Working Paper Series
Bank of England, Bank of England and Bank of England
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3,839
24.
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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11,749
Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, and the Role of Institutional Investors: A Global Perspective
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 10 Jan 2005
Downloads
3,626
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3,626
25.
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
Downloads
3,591
Shadow Insurance
NBER Working Paper No. w19568
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 25 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023
Downloads
90
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3,591
26.
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
3,504
27.
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, University Siegen - School of Economic Disciplines and Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
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3,381
28.
The Art of Natural Language Processing: Classical, Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Text Document Classification
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Dep. Management, Technology, and Economics ETH ZurichMobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH and Mobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH
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3,362
29.
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
Last Revised: 09 Nov 2023
Working Paper Series
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - College of Business Administration
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3,358
30.
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
Downloads
3,299
31.
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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3,209
32.
Infrastructure as an Asset Class
EIB Papers, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 70-105, 2010
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 11 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Inderst Advisory
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3,100
33.
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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3,077
34.
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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3,048
35.
Terrorism and the Stock Market
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - SC Johnson College of Business and Barclays Global Investors
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3,021
36.
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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2,812
37.
Fintech and Banking
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 27 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 03 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business
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2,780
38.
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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2,596
39.
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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2,562
40.
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
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2,546
41.
Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance
Foundations and Trends in Finance, forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper 700/2020
Number of pages: 112
Posted: 03 Sep 2020
Last Revised: 13 Jul 2021
Accepted Paper Series
London School of Economics (LSE), Boston College - Department of Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
Downloads
2,537
42.
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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2,529
43.
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
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2,493
44.
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
2,405
45.
Insights from Inside Neural Networks
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 19 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Dep. Management, Technology, and Economics ETH ZurichMobiliar Lab for Analytics at ETH, PartnerRe Ltd - PartnerRe Holdings Europe Limited and RiskLab, ETH Zurich
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2,378
46.
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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2,370
47.
Peeking into the Black Box: An Actuarial Case Study for Interpretable Machine Learning
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 05 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Schweizerische Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft and Schweizerische Mobiliar Versicherungsgesellschaft
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2,324
48.
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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2,271
49.
Attitudes of Nigerians Towards Insurance Services: An Empirical Study
African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, Vol. 4, No. 4, July 2009
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 14 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Lagos, University of East London and University of Lagos
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2,256
50.
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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2,249
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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258
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2,249
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