Astln Bulletin 11 (198o) 1-16 A GAME T H E O R E T I C LOOK AT L I F E I N S U R A N C E UNDERWRITING* JEAN LEMAIRE Universit6 Libre de Bruxelles Tim decision problem o[ acceptance or rejection of life insurance proposals is formulated as a ~vo-person non cooperattve game between the insurer and the set of the proposers Using the mmtmax criterion or the Bayes criterion‚ ~t ~s shown how the value and the optunal stxateg~es can be computed‚ and how an optimal s e t of medina!‚ mformatmns can be
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Game Theory in Life Insurance The insurance industry has long been applying game theory to evaluate whether or not individuals are insurable and determine how much premium to charge them based on their apparent needs. This interaction between the consumer and the insurance company can be characterized as a game because not only are they playing against one another but each party is waging on an outcome more beneficial to them. In a traditional life insurance‚ there are many variables to consider
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NEGOTIATION Negotiation theory Last updated 9 months ago The foundations of negotiation theory are decision analysis‚ behavioral decision making‚ game theory‚ and negotiation analysis. Another classification of theories distinguishes between Structural Analysis‚ Strategic Analysis‚ Process Analysis‚ Integrative Analysis and behavioral analysis of negotiations. Individuals should make separate‚ interactive decisions; and negotiation analysis considers how groups of reasonably bright individuals
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Game Theory and Business Game theory emerged as a scholarly field of study in the first half of the 20th century. Since that time‚ it has significantly affected various academic disciplines‚ such as economics‚ political science and biology. Although the term "game theory" may suggest a certain frivolity‚ the concepts underlying it have many real-world applications and offer a structured and logical method of considering strategic situations. The parallels between competitive games and strategic
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Introduction Game theory is an important tool that can be used to determine how the decisions made by others come into play and also subsequently influence other’s decisions. It borrows from parlor games such as chess and poker to come up with the concepts that influence it. The concept goes a long way in explaining where the theory gets its name. Its main application areas include places such as economics‚ coming up with strategic
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Game theory is defined as “the study of the ways in which strategic interactions among economic agents produce outcomeswith respect to thepreferences of those agents‚ where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents” by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Ross 1997). The disciplines most involved in game theory “are mathematics‚ economics and the other social and behavioral sciences” (McCain 1997). Game theory was created to confront the problem and provide a theory
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Ideally‚ everyone in the house cleans up each mess they make immediately after they make it. Instead‚ housemates often leave their dirty dishes in the sink or on the counter for hours waiting to wash them later. Even more frustrating‚ housemates may wait for someone else to get fed up with the pile of dirty dishes and proceed to wash them. The kitchen constantly accumulates dirty dishes. Irresponsible housemates continue to shirk on their responsibility to clean up their messes because their actions
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GAMES THEORY In game theory‚ Nash equilibrium (named after John Forbes Nash‚ who proposed it) is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players‚ in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players‚ and no player has anything to gain by changing only his own strategy unilaterally. If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged‚ then the current set of strategy
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scenario. After that the solution concepts are selected in order to acquire a prediction about the possible behavior of the players and outcomes of their actions. These results will be obtained through implementation of the equilibrium concepts like game theory selected for the current strategic framework and predictions will be made. Last section presents the discussion on the importance of results obtained through the implementation of the concept solutions. Relevance from Strategic Perspective
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Solution to Tutorial 1 2011/2012 Semester I MA4264 Tutor: Xiang Sun∗ August 24‚ 2011 Game Theory 1 Review • “Static” means one-shot‚ or simultaneous-move; “Complete information” means that the payoff functions are common knowledge. • Normal-form representation: G = {S1 ‚ . . . ‚ Sn ; u1 ‚ . . . ‚ un }‚ where n is finite. • si is strictly dominated by si ‚ if ui (si ‚ s−i ) < ui (si ‚ s−i )‚ ∀s−i ∈ S−i . • Rational players do not play strictly dominated strategies‚ since they are always not
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