1.2 Outline
Chapter 2 introduces the financial and statistical knowledge that underlines our re-
search topic, and reviews recent research findings that may contribute to this research.
Chapter 3 proposes our methodology to model the GLB Act’s impact on insurance
companies’ survival, and conducts a simulation study to demonstrate the performance
of the method. The analysis and results using real data are presented in Chapter 4.
Built upon the findings in Chapters 3 and 4, Chapter 5 introduces the method to
identify change-point(s) in hazard functions. Chapter 6 concludes this research and
highlights possible future efforts.