Longevity and Morbidity Risks: Emerging Technologies and Perspectives
A special issue of Risks (ISSN 2227-9091).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 848
Editors
Interests: stochastic processes; financial and insurance risk; longevity insurance products; survival forecasting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modeling longevity dynamics is a key subject of investigation in many fields of social sciences due to the cross-cutting effects of longevity on the social landscape and financial security, at both the individual and collective levels. Enhancing the understanding and unlocking peculiar features and trends of high-impact demographic phenomena as those related to population aging and healthy aging are crucial for developing resilience against the related risks in the medium-, long-, and very long-run.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles that challenge conventional methods and develop data-driven methodological approaches to identify and interpret the emerging trends in longevity and morbidity risks, also from a gender perspective. We also encourage research articles addressing longevity and morbidity risk management for portfolios of traditional or newly proposed life insurance contracts (e.g., bundling of risks).
We welcome high-quality paper submissions, related but not limited to the following topics:
- Stochastic mortality models;
- Neural network approaches to longevity modeling;
- Multistate health transition modeling;
- Life insurance models;
- Gender mortality differentials;
- Bundling of risks;
- Forecasting over long-term horizons.
Prof. Dr. Marilena Sibillo
Dr. Giovanna Apicella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- longevity risk
- mortality modeling
- gender mortality gap
- forecasting
- health transitions
- life insurance
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