Thesis (doctoral)--University of Oulu, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-226). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S. in Engineering)--University of Florida, 1992. / "Fall 1992." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 8, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Private Contracting, Military Contracting, Navy Contracting, AIA(American Institute Of Architects), FAR(Federal Acquisition Regulation), Far Clauses, Commercial Contracts, Government Contracts, Comparative Analysis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Philosophy))--Rhodes University, 2004.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Marshall Engelbeck, Raymond E. Franck. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

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The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), adopted in April 11, 1980, is an attempt to unify rules of international trade. A large number of states that represent a variety of legal systems and of degrees of development have adhered to this Convention. / As a result of the divergence of approaches and rules in these systems, several issues were debated during the negotiations, among others the remedy of specific performance. / This thesis examines the provisions regarding specific performance in the Convention in attempt to reveal the divergence of approaches between Common Law and Civil Law by means of a comparative study of the two systems. / The purpose is to assess the extent to which uniformity is achieved in the Convention. The study shows that the solution adopted regarding specific performance was a compromise that threatens uniformity to a certain degree.

Any contract for the sale of goods between international commercial traders may be subject to the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If a buyer suffers damages as a result of a breach of contract, she is entitled to damages under the Convention. The issue in this thesis is whether a buyer may also invoke product liability actions under national tort law if a defective good causes bodily injury or property damage. The provisions of the CISG generally displace national law governing the rights and obligations deriving from a contract of sale. Despite the desirability of removing the uncertainties of foreign liability regimes from international trade, domestic rules of product liability remain, in general, applicable. Only if national tort actions interfere with the core of the Convention's liability regime, must the domestic law be modified.

This dissertation presents pricing models for stop-loss reinsurance contracts for catastrophic events and for catastrophe insurance derivatives. We use doubly stochastic Poisson process or the Cox process for the claim arrival process for catastrophic events. The shot noise process is able to measure the frequency, magnitude and time period needed to determine the effect of the catastrophe. This process is used for the claim intensity function within the Cox process. The Cox process with shot noise intensity is examined by piecewise deterministic Markov process theory. We apply the Cox process incorporating the shot noise process as its intensity to price stop-loss catastrophe reinsurance contracts and catastrophe insurance derivatives. In order to calculate fair prices for reinsurance contracts and catastrophe insurance derivatives we need to assume that there is an absence of arbitrage opportunities in the market. This can be achieved by using an equivalent martingale probability measure in our pricing models. The Esscher transform is used to change probability measure. The dissertation also shows how to estimate the parameters of claim intensity using the likelihood function. In order to estimate the distribution of claim intensity, state estimation is employed as well. Since the claim intensity is not observable we filter it out on the basis of the number of claims, i.e. we employ the Kalman-Bucy filter. We also derive pricing formulae for stop-loss reinsurance contracts for catastrophic events using the distribution of claim intensity that is obtained by the Kalman-Bucy filter. Both estimations are essential in pricing stop-loss reinsurance contracts and catastrophe insurance derivatives.