Definition:Risk modeling: Difference between revisions

📐🧮 '''Risk modeling''' is the quantitative discipline of usingconstructing mathematical, and statistical, andrepresentations computationalof techniquespotential toloss quantifyevents theto likelihoodhelp insurers and financial[[Definition:Reinsurance impact| ofreinsurers]] uncertainunderstand, eventsprice, —and amanage practicethe thatrisks sitsthey atassume. In the veryinsurance corecontext, ofrisk howmodels [[Definition:Insurancespan carrieran |enormous insurers]],range [[Definition:Reinsurance— | reinsurers]], andfrom [[Definition:InsuranceCatastrophe brokermodel | brokerscatastrophe models]] pricethat risksimulate hurricane, manage capitalearthquake, and makeflood strategiclosses decisions.across Inlarge the insurance contextportfolios, risk models range fromto [[Definition:Actuarial science | actuarial]] frequency-severity models forprojecting everydaymortality, linesmorbidity, likeand lapse rates for [[Definition:AutoLife insurance | motorlife]] and [[Definition:PropertyHealth insurance | property insurancehealth]] books, to highly complex [[Definition:CatastropheCyber modelinsurance | catastrophe modelscyber]] thatrisk simulatemodels theattempting physicalto andquantify financialsystemic impactsdigital of natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floodsthreats. The outputoutputs of these models informsinform virtually every consequentialstrategic decision inan theinsurer industrymakes: [[Definition:Underwritinghow | underwriting]] acceptance,much [[Definition:Premium | premium]] adequacyto charge, how much [[Definition:ReservesCapital requirement | reservecapital]] estimationto hold, what [[Definition:Reinsurance purchasing | reinsurance purchasing]] to buy, and [[Definition:Regulatorywhich capitalrisks |to regulatory capital]]avoid calculationsentirely.

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