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On Valuing Participating Life Insurance Contracts with Conditional Heteroscedasticity

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  • Tak Siu

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  • John Lau

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  • Hailiang Yang

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Asia-Pacific Financial Markets.

Volume (Year): 14 (2007)
Issue (Month): 3 (September)
Pages: 255-275

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Handle: RePEc:kap:apfinm:v:14:y:2007:i:3:p:255-275

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Keywords: APGARCH model; Conditional Esscher transforms; Conditional heteroscedasticity; Default option; Leverage effect; Memoryness; Participating life insurance policies;

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