February 23, 2018: Jorge M. Uribe defended his thesis. Jury members were Drs.Alfonso Novales, (president, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Christian Brownlees (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Lieven Baele (University of Tilburg). Dr. Uribe is an associate researcher at the Riskcenter UB, he was supervised by Drs. Helena Chuliá and Montserrat Guillen. The thesis proposes new methods
Nov, 22 2017: The VidaCaixa-UB insurance award is an annual prize given to the best master thesis in the Master of Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the University of Barcelona. The winner thesis in the 10th edition was ‘Big Data of social networks: Personality traits as an explanatory variable in GLM models for insurance claim
Helena Chuliá, member of the research group Riskcenter, has been awarded with a research grant from the Ramón Areces Foundation. The research project, entitled "Good and bad uncertainty propagation across the global economy" has been selected, jointly with 11 additional projects, from more than 80 proposals. The project will last for two years and will
PhD in Statistics on the joint modeling of health insurance September 26, 2017: Xavier Piulachs Lozada-Benavente defended his thesis. Jury members were Drs. Jordi Ocaña (president), Lupe Gómez-Melis (Universitata Politècnica de Catalunya) and Cécile Proust-Lima (Université de Bordeaux,). Dr. Piulachs is now moving forward to a post-doc position at the Université Catholique de
Quantification of risk, industrial PhD Sept 7, 2017: Alemar E. Padilla-Barreto is interviewed in the YouTube channel of the Industrial PhD program. Together with the Chief Pricing Officer of Zurich Insurance in Spain (Mr. Jordi Margarit) and the two supervisors, they describe the main challenges in the completition of an industrial PhD thesis. The video
PhD in Business on the heterogeneity of mortality and its impact on welfare July 21, 2017: Estefania Alaminos Aguilera presented her thesis. Jury members were Drs. Catalina Bolancé (president), Francisco Escribano (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Elisa Chuliá (University of Valencia). Dr. Alaminos is now working at the International Labor Organization in
Zurich funded chair at UB for research, actuarial education and innovation Jul 18 2017: The Rector of the University of Barcelona, Prof. Joan Elias, and the CEO of Zurich Spain, Mr. Vicente Cancio signed the extension of the Chair that the insurance company has with the research group Riskcenter of the UB. The objective
Miguel Santolino participates in the conference ‘Challenges of the actuarial profession qualification’ organized by the Catalan Actuarial Association Session outline May 17, 2017. Antonio Ferreiro (Deloitte Canada) and Miguel Santolino (Riskcenter-UB) spoke about the challenges of the insurance sector in next years and how the actuarial profession should face these challenges. They pointed out that
Big data Telematics towards Usage based Insurance This workshop (May 4 2017) is a meeting to discuss innovation in telematics from the perspective of insurers and manufacturers, as well as the design of public policies aimed to reduce accidents on the road. For more information, see the preliminary programme. Link to the
Tim gave a seminar on "Modeling and forecasting mortality with economic growth: a multi-population approach". He reviewed the existing literature on mortality modeling of multiple populations, which focuses mainly on extrapolating the past mortality trends and summarizes these trends by one or more common latent factors. In his paper, they propose a multi-population stochastic mortality
