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This paper develops a dynamic insurance market model comprising two competing insurance companies and a continuum of insureds, and examines the interaction between strategic underreporting by the insureds and competitive pricing between the…

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In a context of constant increase in competition and heightened regulatory pressure, accuracy, actuarial precision, as well as transparency and understanding of the tariff, are key issues in non-life insurance. Traditionally used…

Applications · Statistics 2025-03-28 Markéta Krùpovà , Nabil Rachdi , Quentin Guibert

In actuarial practice the dependency between contract limitations (deductibles, copayments) and health care expenditures are measured by the application of the Monte Carlo simulation technique. We propose, for the same goal, an alternative…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-19 Fabio Baione , Davide Biancalana , Paolo De Angelis

It is not clear how to target patients who are most likely to benefit from digital care management programs ex-ante, a shortcoming of current risk score based approaches. This study focuses on defining impactability by identifying those…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-16 Heather Mattie , Patrick Reidy , Patrik Bachtiger , Emily Lindemer , Mohammad Jouni , Trishan Panch

The study aimed to evaluate the regression models' performance in predicting the cost of medical insurance. The Three (3) Regression Models in Machine Learning namely Linear Regression, Gradient Boosting, and Support Vector Machine were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jonelle Angelo S. Cenita , Paul Richie F. Asuncion , Jayson M. Victoriano

The ultimate goal in the pharmaceutical sector is product quality. However this quality can be altered by the use of a number of heterogeneous information systems with different business structures and concepts along the lifecycle of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Néjib Moalla , Abdelaziz Bouras , Gilles Neubert , Yacine Ouzrout

Increased adoption and deployment of machine learning (ML) models into business, healthcare and other organisational processes, will result in a growing disconnect between the engineers and researchers who developed the models and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Iain Barclay , Alun Preece , Ian Taylor , Dinesh Verma

With the current ongoing debate about fairness, explainability and transparency of machine learning models, their application in high-impact clinical decision-making systems must be scrutinized. We consider a real-life example of risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Sandhya Tripathi , Bradley A. Fritz , Mohamed Abdelhack , Michael S. Avidan , Yixin Chen , Christopher R. King

In order to perform machine learning among multiple parties while protecting the privacy of raw data, privacy-preserving machine learning based on secure multi-party computation (MPL for short) has been a hot spot in recent. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Lushan Song , Jiaxuan Wang , Zhexuan Wang , Xinyu Tu , Guopeng Lin , Wenqiang Ruan , Haoqi Wu , Weili Han

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was the largest targeted business support program in the United States, yet its firm-level effects remain contested. I link administrative PPP and SBA 7(a) records to a near-universe panel of U.S.…

General Economics · Economics 2025-12-29 Chunyu Qu

Based on the observation that the transparency of an algorithm comes with a cost for the algorithm designer when the users (data providers) are strategic, this paper studies the impact of strategic intent of the users on the design and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Emrah Akyol , Cedric Langbort , Tamer Basar

In the literature, insurance and reinsurance pricing is typically determined by a premium principle, characterized by a risk measure that reflects the policy seller's risk attitude. Building on the work of Meyers (1980) and Chen et al.…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-08 Ziyue Shi , David Landriault , Fangda Liu

We propose a model in which, in exchange to the payment of a fixed transaction cost, an insurance company can choose the retention level as well as the time at which subscribing a perpetual reinsurance contract. The surplus process of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Maria-Laura Torrente

Pharmaceutical markets for life-saving therapies combine monopoly power with insurance coverage. We build a tractable sequential game in which a patent-holder chooses the drug price, a profit-maximising insurer sets its premium, and a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-09-22 Delia Coculescu , Maximilian Janisch , Thomas Lehéricy

Process-Level Reward Models (PRMs) are essential for guiding complex reasoning in large language models, yet existing PRM benchmarks cover only general domains such as mathematics, failing to address medical reasoning -- which is uniquely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lingyan Wu , Xiang Zheng , Weiqi Zhai , Wei Wang , Xuan Ren , Zifan Zhang , Hu Wei , Bing Zhao

The frequent occurrence of natural disasters has posed significant challenges to society, necessitating the urgent development of effective risk management strategies. From the early informal community-based risk sharing mechanisms to…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-06 Lichen Wang , Shijia Hua , Yuyuan Liu , Zhengyuan Lu , Liang Zhang , Linjie Liu , Attila Szolnoki

Multi-tiered large memory systems call for rethinking of memory profiling and migration because of the unique problems unseen in the traditional memory systems with smaller capacity and fewer tiers. We develop MTM, an…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jie Ren , Dong Xu , Ivy Peng , Junhee Ryu , Kwangsik Shin , Daewoo Kim , Dong Li

A statistical description and model of individual healthcare expenditures in the US has been developed for measuring value in healthcare. We find evidence that healthcare expenditures are quantifiable as an infusion-diffusion process, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-01-22 Christopher Gardner

Drug shortages occur frequently and are often caused by supply chain disruptions. For improvements to occur, it is necessary to be able to estimate the vulnerability of pharmaceutical supply chains. In this work, we present the first model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Emily L. Tucker , Mark S. Daskin

The recommendation of medication is a vital aspect of intelligent healthcare systems, as it involves prescribing the most suitable drugs based on a patient's specific health needs. Unfortunately, many sophisticated models currently in use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yuanshao Zhu , Zijian Zhang , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng