非寿险精算中的贝叶斯信用模型分析

针对传统B櫣hlmann-Straub信用模型不能有效地解决缺失数据信息处理问题,本文利用贝叶斯统计方法,构造了一类新的贝叶斯信用分析模型,引入基于吉布斯抽样的马尔科夫链蒙特卡洛方法进行数值计算,建立了一个索赔后验分层正态模型进行实证分析,证明模型的有效性。研究结果表明,基于MCMC的贝叶斯信用模型能够动态模拟模型参数的后验分布,提高模型估计的精度,对保险公司经验费率厘定方法的改进具有重要的现实意义。     

贝叶斯非线性分层模型在多元索赔准备金评估中的应用

本文将贝叶斯非线性分层模型应用于基于不同业务线的多元索赔准备金评估中,设计了一种合适的模型结构,将非线性分层模型与贝叶斯方法结合起来,应用WinBUGS软件对精算实务中经典流量三角形数据进行建模分析,并使用MCMC方法得到了索赔准备金完整的预测分布。这种方法扩展并超越了已有多元评估方法中最佳估计和预测均方误差估计的研究范畴。在贝叶斯框架下结合后验分布实施推断对非寿险公司偿付能力监管和行业决策具有重要作用。     

基于无信息先验的分层指数模型参数在Stein损失函数下的贝叶斯估计

参数估计问题是数理统计学中研究较多的一类问题.本文是基于一个无信息先验的分层指数模型在Stein损失函数下的贝叶斯估计.首先计算分层指数模型分别在平方误差损失函数和Stein损失函数下的贝叶斯后验估计量和相应的后验期望Stein损失(PESL),并且比较二者在两个损失函数下的大小.可以看出在Stein损失函数下的贝叶斯后验期望和对应的PESL均略小于平方误差损失函数下的相应量.然后,计算分层指数模型的参数在Stein损失函数下的贝叶斯估计,并通过均方误差来评价估计量的好坏,得出后验期望估计量拟合得最好.最后通过随机数值和我国31个省市自治区的结婚数据对以上理论进行了模拟和实证,说明了该模型和方法的有效性和实用性.     

非参数空间滞后模型的贝叶斯估计

本文采用Bayes方法对非参数空间滞后模型进行全面分析,包括参数的估计以及用自由节点样条来拟合未知联系函数。所建议的Bayes方法通过逆跳Markov chain Monte carlo算法（RJMCMC）来实现。在进行贝叶斯分析时,对样条系数与误差方差选取共轭的正态—逆伽玛先验分布,进而获得其他未知量的边际后验分布;另外,文章还设计了一个简单但一般的随机游动Metropolis抽样器,以方便从空间权重因子的条件后验分布中进行抽样。最后应用所建议的方法进行数值模拟。     

贝叶斯估计的图像分割技术

针对图像在动态阈值选取难的问题,通过比较全局阈值和局部阈值优缺点,选用贝叶斯阈值估计和迭代加权的方法对图像进行二值化分割,建立基于贝叶斯线性回归模型对检测到的阈值进行分析,通过图像增强,建立目标与非目标区域,分别计算各个区域的先验概率,使用贝叶斯估计模型求得似然函数的极小值即为后验概率,通过此模型对125组阈值样本进行分类,对异常阈值的判断率为14.4%,选取后的阈值更为精确。本文方法,既能有效的提取目标特征,较好的去除背景,又能够保留目标图像的细节。     

基于贝叶斯方法的均值-方差投资组合选择

传统均值一方差模型应用于投资实践时将参数的估计值看作是其真实取值,从而忽略了估计风险对投资决策的影响。基于此,文章提出了基于贝叶斯方法的均值一方差模型,并介绍了最优投资组合的求解过程。贝叶斯分析框架的引入将有效克服传统均值一方差模型对参数取值的敏感性,使得模型的稳健性得到显著提高。     

贝叶斯视角下时变参数VAR建模——兼论“斜率之谜”

中国渐进式的改革实践要求中国宏观时间序列的建模能够允许参数平滑变化,而传统的VAR模型对此无能为力。本文详细阐述了在贝叶斯估计框架下,如何利用MCMC算法,建立时变参数VAR模型的过程,并利用该模型对徐高(2008)的数据重新进行了拟合,发现其文中提出的斜率之谜现象不复存在,因此时变参数VAR模型在拟合中国宏观时间序列方面更为精准。     

运用非参数Dirichlet生存模型进行财务困境企业预警

企业陷入财务困境往往是一个动态持续的过程,且具有经常性特点。本文从生存时间的研究视角,采用生存模型对我国上市制造公司中财务困境企业的生存时间进行预警,并针对模型中残差分布不易确定的问题,提出用非参数Dirichlet过程放松分布假设,并作为其的先验分布,利用贝叶斯估计法和MCMC算法进行模型参数和生存曲线的后验推断,以获取财务困境企业生存时间的稳健估计值和更为精确的生存概率预警分析值。     

保险公司未决赔款准备金的稳健贝叶斯估计

未决赔款准备金的谨慎提取对保险公司的稳健经营具有非常重要的意义。本文从分层贝叶斯分析和BMOM方法入手研究最大熵先验分布问题，给出了保险公司未决赔款准备金的稳健贝叶斯估计，然后通过一具体实例说明本文方法的有效性，最后将未决赔款准备金的稳健贝叶斯估计同经典估计进行了比较。     

构建贝叶斯线性分层模型估计个体农业保费探析

农作物产量通常受空间时间分布影响，基于此，文章构造了一个含随机截距、随机斜率项的一元正态贝叶斯线性分层空间时间相依模型，该模型能准确预测农作物单位面积产量，据此可估计出公平合理的个体农业保险保费。     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.     

City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Former industrial cities in the West are employing gentrification as urban policy. In these policies, women and families currently play an important role as gentrification pioneers. In my analysis of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, I propose the term genderfication to understand the gender dimensions of this process. Genderfication refers to the production of space for different gender relations. I analyse Rotterdam's urban planning program for becoming a ‘child‐friendly city’, which entails replacing existing urban dwellings with new, larger and more expensive ‘family‐friendly homes’ as a strategy for urban re‐generation. Urban re‐generation supplements regeneration in the form of material and economic restructuring, and refers to the replacement of part of the current population by a new and better suited generation. The ‘child‐friendly city program’ is considered in tandem with punitive ‘youth policies’.     

Performance appraisal and culture: practice and attitudes in Hong Kong and Great Britain

This article compares the practice of and attitudes towards performance appraisal for managerial and professional staff in Hong Kong and Britain, and considers the extent to which actual practice and employee preferences are in alignment. Findings suggest that appraisal may be more widespread in Hong Kong than in Britain. However, British appraisal tends to be more participative and to place greater emphasis on discussing objectives, development and career plans. Hong Kong appraisals appear to be more directive and Hong Kong respondents perceive a higher level of 'negative' appraiser behaviour. In spite of this, Hong Kong respondents show if anything slightly more confidence in the utility of appraisal than do British respondents. They show stronger support for appraisal's use for reward and punishment and less support for the objectives-setting and training and development uses than do the British sample. Hong Kong respondents are more likely than their British counterparts to favour involving a more senior manager in appraisal, and they are less likely to prefer more frequent appraisals. There was little evidence that Hong Kong respondents had a stronger preference for group-based appraisal criteria, although they did show more support than the British sample for the use of personality as a basis for appraisal. Overall, the suggestion is that appraisal has been adopted in Hong Kong organizations but that the practice of appraisal has been adapted to suit the cultural characteristics of the society.     

Narrative construction of expatriate experience and career cycle: discursive patterns in Finnish stories of international

Expatriate experience is not only a disconnected occasion for cross-cultural anxiety and adjustment but also an important event in the process of self-development and learning. Following this view and arguing for a discursive approach, the paper focuses on ways in which expatriates themselves tell and interpret their development and movement across expatriate career cycle. Meaning systems connecting expatriate job with previous and following work experiences in career stories of Finnish engineers and managers were identified using a combination of narrative and discourse analysis. No evidence was found of an autonomous expatriate discourse but, in contrast, expatriate career cycle was narrated using available organizational repertoires of development and career. Describing and discussing the meaning-making properties of three identified discourses - bureaucratic, occupational and enterprising - the paper emphasizes the organizational environment of expatriate experience while acknowledging the limits of these contemporary career vocabularies in addressing individual learning and change in cross-cultural settings.