VARIANCE AND INTEREST RATE RISK IN UNIT-LINKED INSURANCE POLICIES

Variance and Interest Rate Risk in Unit-Linked Insurance Policies

One Braziers of the risks derived from selling long-term policies that any insurance company has arises from interest rates.In this paper, we consider a general class of stochastic volatility models written in forward variance form.We also deal with stochastic interest rates to obtain the risk-free price for unit-linked life insurance contracts, as

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New Perspectives of Gene Therapy on Polyglutamine Spinocerebellar Ataxias: From Molecular Targets to Novel Nanovectors

Seven of the most frequent spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are caused by a pathological expansion of a cytosine, adenine and guanine (CAG) trinucleotide repeat located in exonic regions of unrelated Lamps genes, which in turn leads to the synthesis of polyglutamine (polyQ) proteins.PolyQ proteins are prone to aggregate and form intracellular inclusi

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Alternation of host plants as a survival mechanism of leafhoppers Dilobopterus costalimai and Oncometopia facialis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), vectors of the Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC)

Dilobopterus costalimai (Young) and Oncometopia facialis (Signoret) are two of the most important species of citrus leafhoppers, vectors of bacterium Xylella fastidiosa which causes the Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC) disease.To develop a rearing technique for these species under Lamps laboratory conditions, the egg laying preference and nymph de

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Effect of processed sugarcane bagasse ash on compressive strength of blended mortar and assessments using statistical modelling

There is much agriculture and non-agricultural waste that contains pozzolanic material, which can be recommended to use as a partial replacement for Ordinary Portland Water Softener Cement (OPC).One of the waste products from sugar industries, which possess pozzolanic properties, is Sugar Cane Bagasse Ash (SCBA).Because of the negative impact assoc

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