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History of accounting, buisness administration doctrines and development of new methods of management in Italy and Russia, 2010
This series is published as an outcome of the Russian-Italian conference. The series materials are intended for professors, postgraduates, and students.
The estimation of the default risk is an important point for an insurance company. There are a number of mechanisms used in insurance which influences the default risk. One of them is reinsurance, where part of risk is taken on charge by the reinsurance company. We consider excess-of-loss reinsurance, which means that each insurance contract is reinsured individually. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the dependency of the default risk from the chosen retention limit. As a main result we discover the new phenomena of a possible jump of the reliability function, which has an important practical influence on the default risk estimation.
Smoking is a problem, bringing signifi cant social and economic costs to Russiansociety. However, ratifi cation of the World health organization Framework conventionon tobacco control makes it possible to improve Russian legislation accordingto the international standards. So, I describe some measures that should be taken bythe Russian authorities in the nearest future, and I examine their effi ciency. By studyingthe international evidence I analyze the impact of the smoke-free areas, advertisementand sponsorship bans, tax increases, etc. on the prevalence of smoking, cigaretteconsumption and some other indicators. I also investigate the obstacles confrontingthe Russian authorities when they introduce new policy measures and the public attitudetowards these measures. I conclude that there is a number of easy-to-implementanti-smoking activities that need no fi nancial resources but only a political will.
One of the most important indicators of company's success is the increase of its value. The article investigates traditional methods of company's value assessment and the evidence that the application of these methods is incorrect in the new stage of economy. So it is necessary to create a new method of valuation based on the new main sources of company's success that is its intellectual capital.