Insurance: Mathematics and Economics is an international journal which intends to strengthen communication between individuals and groups who produce and apply research results in insurance mathematics, thus helping to correct the current fragmentation of research in the field. The journal feels a particular obligation to facilitate closer cooperation between those who carry out research in insurance mathematics and insurance economics (whether actuaries or non-actuaries) and practising actuaries who are interested in the implementation of the results. To this purpose, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics will publish high quality papers of international interest, concerned with either the theory of insurance mathematics or the inventive application of it, including empirical or experimental results. Papers which combine several of these aspects are particularly welcome, as are survey papers of a pedagogical nature.The subject matter of the journal includes the theory, models and computational methods of life insurance (including pension systems, social insurance, and health insurance), of non-life insurance, and of reinsurance and other risk-sharing arrangements. It also includes, under the heading insurance economics, innovative insurance applications of results from other fields, such as probability and statistics, computer science and numerical analysis, economics, operations research and management science, and risk management.