Race, Housing, and the Federal Government: Black Lives on the Margins of the American Dream by Richard Hughes

“…As historians have increasingly explored the complex historical relationship between race, class, and institutions such as the federal government in shaping contemporary American society, historical sources such as the Federal Housing Association’s Underwriting Manual (1938) provide provocative opportunities for teaching. …”
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Catastrophe insurance by Ang, Tin Tin, Teh, Joyce Meng Hwee, Yeo, Evelyn Andrewina Wan Gek

“…It gives an insight in to five particular aspects of catastrophe, namely, the catastrophe risk management, reinsurance, underwriting procedures and factors, claims process, structure of a catastrophe insurance programme and future of catastrophe insurance. …”
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Financial Innovation and First-Mover Advantages by Tufano, P

“…However, banks capture a larger share of underwritings with innovations than with imitative products. …”

Three dogmas of normativity by Chang, R

“…I raise some questions about these dogmas, suggest what we should believe in their place, and moot an alternative ‘Activist View' of what it is to be a rational agent that grows out of rejection of the 3 dogmas. Underwriting the dogmas and the Passivist View, I suggest, is a deeply held but mistaken assumption that the normative domain is fundamentally akin to the nonnormative domain. …”

Henry James, George Eliot, and the "old-fashioned English novel" by Bryan, R

“…In particular it traces how James's dissatisfaction with texts where Eliot had seemed to place insufficient demands upon her readers' faculties helped give rise to the innovative type of psychological realism underwriting his own work, which by soliciting the imagination of possibility would succeed in pushing the representational capacity of prose fiction deeper still into the life of the mind.…”

Association of parity with the prevalence of hypertension in Japan: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Community‐based cohort study by Hongxin Wang, Noriyuki Iwama, Keiichi Yuwaki, You Nakamichi, Hirotaka Hamada, Hasumi Tomita, Kazuma Tagami, Rie Kudo, Natsumi Kumagai, Hirohito Metoki, Naoki Nakaya, Atsushi Hozawa, Shinichi Kuriyama, Nobuo Yaegashi, Masatoshi Saito

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The Epistemology of Collective Testimony by Leo Townsend

“…I argue that this last account holds the most promise for preserving what is distinctive about testimonial knowledge while still underwriting a robust epistemology of collective testimony. …”
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Revenue diversification and bank profitability: study on Indonesian banks by Muhammad Zaki Ashyari, Rofikoh Rokhim

“… Bank has traditional activities that generate interest income, and non-traditional activities such as underwriting and trading securities, broker-agent, and investment banking, and other activities that generate non-interest income. …”
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Global integration in primary equity markets: the role of U.S. banks and U.S. investors by Jenkinson, T, Ljungqvist, A, Wilhelm, W

“…We examine the costs and benefits of the global integration of initial public offering (IPO) markets associated with the diffusion of U.S. underwriting methods in the 1990s. Bookbuilding is becoming increasingly popular outside the United States and typically costs twice as much as a fixed‐price offer. …”

HOW THE BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY CAN CHANGE THE VALUE CHAIN IN THE INSURANCE MARKET by CARMEN TODERAȘCU, VLAD GABRIEL NICOLĂESCU

“…We will also refer to how blockchain technology can be used in an insurance company by referring to the underwriting process, damage management, the relationship between insurers and re insurers.…”
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Factors affecting the profitability of reinsurance companies in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from dynamic panel analysis by Odunayo Magret Olarewaju, Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi

“…This study, which analysed the profitability of 42 reinsurers in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2020, revealed that various factors such as gross domestic product, competition (HHI), premium growth, investment performance, underwriting risk, and operational efficiency affect the profitability in these companies. …”
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The Epistemology of Collective Testimony by Townsend Leo

“…I argue that this last account holds the most promise for preserving what is distinctive about testimonial knowledge while still underwriting a robust epistemology of collective testimony.…”
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Terror and Erebus by Gwendolyn MacEwen: White Technologies and the End of Science by Renée Hulan

“…Working from Rasmussen’s transcriptions of Qaqortingneq’s voice, MacEwen represents Inuit knowledge and technology as both an alternative to the model of scientific discovery underwriting the Franklin expedition and as source of the authoritative account of what happened to Franklin and his crew.…”
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The Patronage of Literary Criticism by Fabio Mangraviti

“…The study also considers the role played by Indian sampradāys in enacting the religious and intellectual processes underwriting the expansion of this field. By moving in this direction, the article mainly builds on the investigation of some biographies (jīvnī) of the North Indian devotional poets penned by Bhārtendu Hariścandra in the 1870s. …”
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The Future of Mortgages: Evaluating the Potential of Blockchain and Generative AI for Reducing Costs and Streamlining Processes by Patel, Breana

“…The findings indicate that blockchain and AI have significant potential to enhance the efficiency of the mortgage process, particularly in the areas of title insurance, loan servicing, and credit underwriting. However, successful deployment requires overcoming challenges related to regulatory issues, data standardization, and cultural resistance. …”
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The workmen's compensation portfolio, what is wrong with it? by Lui, Su Kian, Tang, Nam Hee, Mohd Iskandar Bin Mohd Salleh

“…The historical background of the business and its legislative framework are discussed. The underwriting and claims procedures, and the rating system are considered. …”
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MODEL B�HLMANN STRAUB DALAM TEORI KREDIBILITAS by , Affiati Oktaviarina, S.Si., , Dr. Rer. Nat. Dedi Rosadi, M.Sc.

“…In this thesis, Bühlmann Straub model applied to insurance data earthquake PT Reinsurance International Indinesia June 2005 edition which contains the Risk and Loss Profile in four years, underwriting the 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. Earthquake insurance data consists of 20 groups at risk. …”

Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising? by Cojoianu, T, Ascui, F, Clark, G, Hoepner, A, Wojcik, D

“…This paper explores whether increasing fossil fuel divestment commitments are related to the reduction of capital flows into the oil and gas sector, based on an analysis of syndicated lending, equity and bond underwriting across 33 countries from 2000 to 2015. We find that increasing oil & gas divestment pledges in a country are associated with lower capital flows to domestic oil and gas companies. …”

Global integration in primary equity markets: the role of U.S. banks and U.S. investors by Jenkinson, T, Ljungqvist, A, Wilhelm, W

“…We examine the costs and benefits of the global integration of IPO markets associated with the diffusion of U.S. underwriting methods in the 1990s. Bookbuilding is becoming increasingly popular outside the U.S. and typically costs twice as much as a fixed-price offer. …”

Genomics and insurance in the United Kingdom: increasing complexity and emerging challenges by Dixon, P, Horton, R, Newman, W, McDermott, J, Lucassen, A

“…We discuss three core issues: (1) As genomic testing advances, and results are increasingly relevant to guide healthcare across an individual's lifetime, the distinction between diagnostic and predictive testing that the current UK insurance code relies on becomes increasingly blurred (2) The emerging category of pharmacogenetic tests that are predictive only the in the context of a specific prescribing moment (3) The increasing availability and affordability of polygenic scores that are neither clearly diagnostic nor highly predictive, but which nonetheless might have incremental value for insurance underwriting beyond conventional factors. We suggest a deliberative approach is required to establish when and how genetic information can be used in risk-rated insurance.…”