Loss Models: From Theory to Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The first edition of the textbook Loss Models: From Data to Decisions by Klugman, Panjer, and Willmot was published in 1998, and 2018 marks its 20th anniversary. The volume has expanded since 1998 to include more and more emerging important topics regarding loss modeling in actuarial science. The textbook is not only a required reading for various professional actuarial exams, but also a highly cited research reference as it contains a lot of classical results in actuarial science. The past 20 years have also seen the development of actuarial risk theory, along with the availability of more advanced statistical techniques, huge amount of data, and computational power.

 This Special Issue aims to collect state-of-the-art research papers tackling the latest challenges in theory and/or applications of loss models. While collective risk models are commonly used in general insurance and health insurance, they can also be utilized to model other types of risks, such as operational and credit risks. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, related models are often found in other areas, such as queueing theory, financial risk management, and statistics. Hence, the development of mathematical and stochastic models as well as statistical techniques could be employed in those disciplines. We warmly welcome papers related, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Frequency/severity/compound distributions;
• Risk/loss aggregation;
• Ruin theory;
• Credibility theory;
• Reinsurance;
• Dependence structure;
• Extreme value theory;
• Risk measures; and
• Fitting and inference of loss models.

Prof. Jae Kyung Woo
Prof. Eric Cheung
Guest Editors

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