{"id":665,"date":"2017-05-24T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T07:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/?p=665"},"modified":"2019-01-09T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:48:01","slug":"guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Thomas publishes new book | Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honorary Lecturer, Guy Thomas, has published his latest book <a href=\"http:\/\/admin.cambridge.org\/aq\/academic\/subjects\/economics\/finance\/loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-some-adverse-selection?format=PB\">Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection<\/a> with Cambridge University Press. This is based in part on Guy\u2019s collaboration in recent years with Dr Pradip Tapadar and PhD student MingJie Hao.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book has received cover endorsements from leading actuaries including Professor David Wilkie, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is a serious book which challenges some of the conventional thinking of actuaries and economists about adverse selection in insurance, and does so with justification; they would do well to take the author\u2019s views into account.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guy will be giving a talk based on his book at the Actuarial Teaching and Research Conference at Kent on 17-18 July.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/&amp;t=Guy Thomas publishes new book | Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Guy Thomas publishes new book | Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/&amp;title=Guy Thomas publishes new book | Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/&amp;title=Guy Thomas publishes new book | Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honorary Lecturer, Guy Thomas, has published his latest book Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection with Cambridge University Press. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/guy-thomas-publishes-new-book-loss-coverage-why-insurance-works-better-with-some-adverse-selection\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47358,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182999,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smsasnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}