75319 - Actuarial Mathematics

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Quantitative Finance (cod. 8854)

Course contents

  • Models for the Claim Number Variable: the Poisson distribution, the mixed Poisson distribution
  • The claim amount and heavy tailed distributions
  • Mortality tables
  • Premia of Life insurance policies and annuities
  • Longevity risk models: Lee-Carter
  • Ruin theory

Readings/Bibliography

  • Lecture Notes provided by the teacher 
  • T. Mikosch (2009): "Non-life Insurance Mathematics", Springer
    D.C.M. Dickson, M.R. Hardy and H.R. Waters: "Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks", Cambridge University Press A.
  • Olivieri, E. Pitacco: "Introduction to Insurance Mathematics", Springer

Teaching methods

Classes

Assessment methods

Weekly assignments and final oral exam

Teaching tools

None

Office hours

See the website of Sabrina Mulinacci