Admission to the Ph.D. Program Admission requirements to the Ph.D. program in Business Administration follow the general requirements established by the Graduate School at Temple University. Seminar in Property-Liability Insurance Markets. Approval of the department. In this course, economic, financial, and legal research issues in property-liability insurance are examined. Coverage of pricing, profits, and regulation of insurers explicitly incorporate financial principles, including option pricing, discounted cash-flow ratemaking methods, and the capital asset pricing model.
Legal issues focus on liability principles and tort reform.
Students will learn institutional features of property-liability insurance to the extent necessary to interpret the research covered. Seminar in Life and Employee Benefits. Approval of the department. A workshop approach is used to study the financial aspects of retirement plans, the macroeconomics aspects of pensions and health plans in the context of an aging population, and the microeconomics of retirement and income security. Students learn the steps needed to formulate a research strategy, including writing a proposal, developing hypotheses, and determining empirical tests of these hypotheses.