Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection [electronic resource] / edited by María del Carmen Boado-Penas, Julia Eisenberg, Şule Şahin‬‬‬.

M.C. Boado-Penas, J. Eisenberg, Ş. Şahin: Covid-19: a trigger for innovations in insurance?.-Jose Garrido: Compartment models.-David Wilkie: On a dynamic epidemiological actuarial model -- Andrew Cairns: Changes in mortality during a pandemic -- Gary Venter: Mortality models with contagion -- Diagnostic tests and procedures during a pandemic -- Matthew Aldridge: Group tests -- Gustavo Demarco and Fiona Stewart: On World Bank’s pandemic emergency financial facilities -- Hirbod Assa & Tim Boonen: Mathematical modelling of catastrophe bonds -- Nuria Badenes Pla: Behaviouristic aspects, obedience to the introduced measures in different countries.-Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz:The optimal length and severity of a lockdown.-Peter Filzmoser: The optimal length and severity of a lockdown -- Rachel Hillier:Pandemic related legal problems.-Frank Schiller:Anactuary's opinion. ,.

Open Access

This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-sharing in the presence of low probability events, group testing, compositional data analysis for detecting data inconsistencies, behaviouristic aspects in fighting a pandemic, and insurers’ legal problems, amongst others. Concluding with an essay by a practicing actuary on the applicability of the methods proposed, this interdisciplinary book is aimed at actuaries as well as readers with a background in mathematics, economics, statistics, finance, epidemiology, or sociology.