Program

International Symposium on Insurance and Finance
October 29-30, 2008

 

Program

Wednesday October 29

 

Time Venue Activity Author/s Seminar Title

12:00 – 12:55

Karl Borch's Aud.

Registration, lunch & coffee

 

 

12:55 – 13:00

Welcome

Jan Haaland

 

13:00 – 13:45

Keynote

Hans Bühlmann

On the prudence of the actuary and the courage of the gambler (entrepreneur)
- Abstract

13:45 – 14:15

Session 1 – pres. 1

Isaac Meilijson

The Garman-Klass volatility estimator revisited

14:15 – 14:45

Session 1 – pres. 2

Knut K. Aase

 

14:45 – 15:00

Coffee break 

 

 

15:00 – 15:45

Keynote

Bernt Øksendal

Optimal control with partial information for stochastic Volterra equations

15:45 – 16:15

Session 2 – pres. 1

Jostein Tvedt

Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Asset-Pricing Models

16:15 – 16:45

Session 2 – pres. 2

Valeri Zakamouline

A Generalization of the Mean-Variance Analysis

16:45 – 17:00

Coffee break

 

 

17:15

 

Bus transport to Neptun Hotel

 

 

19:00

TBA

Dinner

 

 

 

 

Thursday October 30
 

Time Venue Activity Author/s Seminar Title

09:00 – 09:45

Karl Borch's Aud.

Keynote

Ragnar Norberg

Management of Financial and Demographic Risk in Life Insurance and Pensions
- Abstract

09:45 – 10:15

Session 3 – pres. 1

Steinar Ekern

An Arbitrary Benchmark CAPM:
One Additional Frontier Portfolio is Sufficient

10:15 – 10:45

Session 3 – pres. 2

Alexander van Haastrecht

Generic pricing of FX, inflation and stock options under stochastic interest rates and stochastic volatility

10:45 – 11:00

Morning coffee break

 

 

11:00 – 11:45

Keynote

Mark Davis

Arbitrage bounds on the prices of vanilla options and variance swaps
- Abstract

11:45 – 12:15

Session 4 – pres. 1

Giulia di Nunno

Events of small but positive probability and a version of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing
- Abstract

12:15 – 12:45

Session 4 – pres. 2

Erik Bølviken

How uncertainty due to adverse selection and wage affects insurance liabilities
- Abstract

12:45 – 13:45

NHH refectory

Lunch

 

13:45 – 14:15

Session 5 – pres. 1

Snorre Lindset

What is the Economic Value of Backdating Executive Stock Options?

14:15 – 14:45

Session 5 – pres. 2

Sjur D. Flåm

A Note on Monetary Measures of Risk

14:45 – 15:30

Keynote

Jørgen Aase Nielsen

How suboptimal are linear sharing rules?

 

Conference close

   

 

There are a total of 15 presentations.  Five of these are by guest speakers and will be 45 minutes in duration (including questions) and the remaining 10 presentations will be 30 minutes in duration (including questions).