Department of Finance

 

Date of this Version

2005

Document Type

Article

Citation

Journal of Actuarial Practice 12 (2005), pp. 127-136

Comments

Copyright 2005 Absalom Press

Abstract

The analysis of life insurance contracts on two lives using the traditional deterministic approach has been an important part of actuarial education for the past fifty years or more. Recently there has been a shift from this deterministic approach to one using a more modern stochastic approach involving the future lifetime random variable. In this paper we will look at the problem using multiple-state models. In our view this approach allows a deeper analysis than either the traditional or the random future lifetime ones.

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