Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance

This volume is a collection of referred papers selected from the more than one hundred and twenty presented at the International MAF Conference 2012 – Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance. The conference was held in Venice (Italy), from April 10 to 12, 2012, at the prestigious Cavalli Franchetti palace of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, on the Grand Canal. It was organized by the Department of Economics of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (Italy), with the collaboration of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Salerno (Italy). This conference was the fifth in an international biennial series, which began in 2004. It was born out of the idea that a cooperation between mathematicians and statisticians working in actuarial sciences, in insurance and in finance could improve the research on these topics. The papers published in this volume present theoretical and methodological contributions and their applications in real contexts