PROGRAMME

All plenary sessions are scheduled in Amazon room

You can view the full programme in PDF format

Tuesday 21 May 2013

11.00-11.30

ASTIN Committee meeting

11.30-12.00

12.00-12.30

12.30-13.00

Lunch

13.00-13.30

13.30-14.00

ASTIN Committee meeting

14.00-14.30

14.30-15.00

15.00-15.30

Break

15.30-16.00

ASTIN Committee meeting

16.00-16.30

16.30-17.00

17.00-18.30 Registration

19.00-20.30

Welcome reception, City Hall, The Hague

Wednesday 22 May 2013

  Amazon room Everest 1&2 Kilimanjaro 1&2

08.00-08.30

Registration

08.30-09.00

Formal opening - plenary    

09.00-10.30

Session 1
Extreme Value Statistics (Paper)
John Einmahl, Professor of Statistics at the Department of Econometrics and research fellow at CentER, both at Tilburg University - plenary

10.30-11.00

Break

11.00-13.00

Session 2: Extreme Value Statistics

  1. Statistics of heteroscedastic extremes
    Dr. Chen Zhou, DNB and Erasmus University Rotterdam

  2. Modeling and Estimating the Multivariate Tail Dependence
    Dr. Andrea Krajina,
    Universität Göttingen

  3. Estimation of extreme risk regions under multivariate regular variation (Paper)
    Dr. Juan-Juan Cai,
    Delft Technical University

Session 3: Loss reserving

  1. Kurtosis and skewness estimation for non-life reserve risk distribution (Paper)
    Eric dal Moro

  2. A deep dive into Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, a practical alternative to Chain Ladder (Paper)
    Pierre Miehé

  3. Combining Chain-Ladder Claims Reserving with Fuzzy Numbers (Paper)
    Anne Thomas

Session 4: Risk management

  1. Robust Hedging in Incomplete Market (Paper)
    Sally Shen


  2. Scenario Aggregation (Paper)
    Mathieu Cambou, Damir Filipovic

  3. Liquidity-Adjusted Risk Measures (Paper)
    Anna Maria Hamm

13.00-14.00

Lunch at Amazon Foyer

14.00-15.20

Session 5: Loss reserving

  1. Individual Loss Reserving with the Multivariate Skew Normal Distribution (Paper)
    Katrien Antonio

  2. Continuous Chain Ladder (Paper)
    Richard Verrall


Session 6: Pricing

  1. The Use of Annual Mileage as a Rating Variable (Paper)
    Jean Lemaire

  2. Premium indexing in lifelong health insurance (Paper)
    Ward Vercruysse

Session 7: Catastroph risk, a practitioner’s view

  1. Help from weather forecasters from verification to validation (Paper)
    Joseph Lo

  2. Catastrophe Model Blending (Paper)
    Alan Calder

15.20-15.50

Break

15.50-17.10

Session 8: Loss reserving

  1. Modeling Multiple Runoff Tables(Paper)
    Vincent Lous

  2. Best Estimate Reserves and the Claims Development Results in Consecutive Calendar
    Annina Saluz


Session 9: Lifetime models

  1. A subordinated Markov model for stochastic mortality (Paper)
    Xiaoming Liu

  2. Multivariate Tweedie Lifetimes: The Impact of Dependence (Paper)
    Daniël Alai

Session 10: Risk theory and reinsurance

  1. On a Sparre-Andersen risk model with PH(n) interclaim times (Paper)
    Alfredo Egidio dos Reis

  2. Reinventing Pareto: Fits for both small and large losses(Paper)
    Michael Fackler

19.00-21.30

Dinner ASTIN Committee & Organising Committee – Restaurant Garoeda The Hague

Thursday 23 May 2013
  Amazon room Everest 1&2 Kilimanjaro 1&2
08.30-10.00 Session 11:
Predictive Modeling of Insurance company Operations (Paper)
Edward (Jed) Frees, Professor Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, Wisconsin School of Business - plenary

10.00-10.20

Break

10.20-12.20

Session 12: Predictive modeling

  1. Customer retention and price elasticity. Are motor insurance policies homogeneous with respect to loyalty? (Paper)
    Prof.dr. Montserrat Guillen, University of Barcelona

  2. A Multivariate Analysis of Intercompany Loss Triangles (Paper)
    Dr. Peng Shi

    University of Wisconsin, Madison

  3. Stochastic Loss Reserving with Bayesian MCMC Models (Paper)
    Glenn G. Meyers PhD, F.C.A.S.

 

Session 13: Solvency

  1. Considerations on the Discount Rate in the Cost of Capital Method for the Risk Margin (Paper)
    Hans Waszink

  2. Market value margin via mean-variance hedging (Paper)
    Andreas Tsanakas

  3. Time-Consistent and Market-Consistent Evaluations (Paper)
    Antoon Pelsser

Session 14: Statistical methods for pricing and risk management

  1. Optimization approaches to multiplicative tariff of rates estimation in non-life insurance (Paper)
    Martin Branda

  2. About the Risk Quantification of Technical Systems (Paper)
    Magda Schiegl

  3. Can we use kernel smoothing to estimate Value at Risk and Tail Value at Risk? (Paper)
    Ramon Alemany

12.20-13.20

Lunch

13.20-15.20

Session 15: Loss reserving

  1. Half-Mack Stochastic Reserving (Paper)
    Frank Cuypers

  2. Calendar Year Dependence Modeling in Run-Off Triangles    (Paper)
    Mario Wühtrich

  3. Chain ladder with random effects  (Paper)  
    Greg Taylor

Session 16: Financial mathematics

  1. Portfolio Optimization under Solvency Constraints: A dynamical approach (Paper)
    Alexandru Badescu

  2. Closed-form solutions for options in incomplete markets (Paper)
    Oana Floroiu

  3. Dynamic optimal investment in Markov-modulated Levy markets default and general utility function(Paper)
    Peter Diko

Session 17: Practitioners’ Session

  1. Internal Model Capital Use (Paper)
    Yuriy Krvavych

  2. Demystifying validation tools  (Paper)
    Sebastian Rath


  3. Pricing a Motor Extended Warranty with Limited Usage Cover (Paper)
    Fidelis Musakwa
15.20-18.00

Excursions:

  • Guided city walk
  • Guided bike tour
  • Visit to Gemeentemuseum

18.00-19.00 Visit to Madorudam, the miniature city

19.00-21.30

Dinner at Madurodam

Friday 24 May 2013
  Amazon room Everest 1&2 Kilimanjaro 1&2

08.30-09.10

Session 18: Credit risk

  1. Solvency II - underwriting credit risk models (Paper)  
    Juan Casanovas Arbó

Session 19:  Risk theory

  1. Moments of Dividends and Optimal Expected Dividends in the Erlang(n) dual risk model (Paper)  
    Alfredo Egidio dos Reis




Speakers' Corner

How to use a wrong tariff
Michael Fackler

09.10-09.50

  1. A mixed weibull model for counterparty credit risk in reinsurance
    Jurgen Gaiser-Porter

  1. Insurance Contract Design and Endogenous frailty (Paper)  
    Davide Benedetti

09.50-10.50

Session 20
Solvency and Risk Management

Thomas C. Wilson, Chief Risk Officer at Allianz Group – plenary

10.50-11.20

Q&A session 20

11.20-11.50

Break

11.50-12.50

ASTIN General Assembly

12.50-13.30

Lunch at Amazon Foyer

13.30-18.00

Actuarieel Genootschap Anniversary Congress
at World Forum Theatre

19.00-23.00

Actuarieel Genootschap Anniversary dinner and event