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Overview

Virginia R. Young is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, econometrics, finance, decision sciences, and social sciences, with a particular focus on probability and risk models and insurance-related topics.

Their recent contributions include the following papers:

  • Stackelberg differential game for reinsurance: Mean-variance framework and random horizon (2021), published in Insurance Mathematics and Economics
  • Stackelberg differential game for insurance under model ambiguity (2022), published in Insurance Mathematics and Economics
  • Reinsurance games with two reinsurers: Tree versus chain (2023), published in European Journal of Operational Research
  • Optimal reinsurance to minimize the probability of drawdown under the mean-variance premium principle (2020), published in Scandinavian Actuarial Journal
  • Optimal reinsurance under the mean-variance premium principle to minimize the probability of ruin (2020), published in Insurance Mathematics and Economics

Frequent coauthors contributing to their work include:

  • Jingyi Cao
  • Bin Zou
  • Dongchen Li
  • Xiaoqing Liang

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Insurance Mathematics and Economics
  • SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics
  • Scandinavian Actuarial Journal

The main fields of study encompassed by their research include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Decision Sciences
  • Social Sciences

More specifically, their work relates closely to the following subfields:

  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Demography
  • Finance
  • General Decision Sciences

Key topics explored by Virginia R. Young cover a range of areas including:

  • Probability and Risk Models
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Stochastic processes and financial applications
  • Risk and Portfolio Optimization
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Economic theories and models

Best Publications

  • Axiomatic characterization of insurance prices

    Shaun S. Wang;Virginia R. Young;Harry H. Panjer

  • Minimizing the Probability of Ruin When Claims Follow Brownian Motion with Drift

    S. David Promislow;Virginia R. Young

  • Annuitization and asset allocation

    Moshe A. Milevsky;Virginia R. Young

  • Ordering risks: Expected utility theory versus Yaari's dual theory of risk

    Shaun S. Wang;Virginia R. Young

  • Optimal insurance under Wang’s premium principle

    Virginia R. Young

  • Optimal Investment Strategy to Minimize the Probability of Lifetime Ruin

    Virginia R. Young

  • Comonotonicity and maximal stop-loss premiums

    Jan Dhaene;Shaun Wang;Virginia Young;Marc Goovaerts

  • A longitudinal data analysis interpretation of credibility models

    Edward W. Frees;Virginia R. Young;Yu Luo

  • Pricing Dynamic Insurance Risks Using the Principle of Equivalent Utility

    Virginia R. Young;Thaleia Zariphopoulou

  • ASSET ALLOCATION AND ANNUITY-PURCHASE STRATEGIES TO MINIMIZE THE PROBABILITY OF FINANCIAL RUIN

    Moshe A. Milevsky;Kristen S. Moore;Virginia R. Young

  • Killing the Law of Large Numbers: Mortality Risk Premiums and the Sharpe Ratio

    M. A. Milevsky;S. D. Promislow;V. R. Young

  • Optimal insurance in a continuous-time model

    Kristen S. Moore;Virginia R. Young

  • Optimal Asset Allocation and The Real Option to Delay Annuitization: It’s Not Now-or-Never

    Moshe A. Milevsky;Virginia R. Young

  • Case Studies Using Panel Data Models

    Edward W. Frees;Virginia R. Young;Yu Luo

  • Insurance Rate Changing: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

    Virginia R. Young

  • Minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin under borrowing constraints

    Erhan Bayraktar;Virginia R. Young

  • Valuation of mortality risk via the instantaneous Sharpe ratio: Applications to life annuities

    Erhan Bayraktar;Moshe A. Milevsky;S. David Promislow;Virginia R. Young

  • The timing of annuitization: Investment dominance and mortality risk

    Moshe A. Milevsky;Moshe A. Milevsky;Virginia R. Young

  • Equity-Indexed Life Insurance: Pricing and Reserving Using the Principle of Equivalent Utility

    Virginia R. Young

  • Indifference prices of structured catastrophe (CAT) bonds

    Masahiko Egami;Masahiko Egami;Virginia R. Young

  • The Real Option to Delay Annuitization: It's Not Now-or-Never

    Moshe A. Milevsky;Virginia R. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Moshe A. Milevsky
Moshe A. Milevsky York University
Edward W. Frees
Edward W. Frees University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jan Dhaene
Jan Dhaene KU Leuven

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