Olivier Côté

Olivier Côté

Université Laval

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publications

Selection Bias in Insurance: Why Portfolio-Specific Fairness Fails to Extend Market-Wide

Published in Preprint, 2024

@article{SelectionBias_2024,
  title={Selection bias in insurance: why portfolio-specific fairness fails to extend market-wide},
  author={Côté, Marie-Pier and Côté, Olivier and Charpentier, Arthur},
  year={2024},

Recommended citation: Côté, Marie-Pier and Côté, Olivier and Charpentier, Arthur, Selection Bias in Insurance: Why Portfolio-Specific Fairness Fails to Extend Market-Wide (November 11, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5018749 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5018749
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A Fair price to pay: exploiting causal graphs for fairness in insurance

Published in Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2025

@article{Cote/etal:2024,
author = {Côté, Olivier and Côté, Marie-Pier and Charpentier, Arthur},
title = {A fair price to pay: Exploiting causal graphs for fairness in insurance},
journal = {Journal of Risk and Insurance},
volume = {92},
pages = {33-75},
year = {2025},
keywords = {bias, causal inference, directed acyclic graph, discrimination, disparate impact, fairness criteria, score},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12503},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jori.12503},
eprint = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jori.12503}
}

Recommended citation: Côté, O., Côté, M.-P., & Charpentier, A. (2025). A fair price to pay: Exploiting causal graphs for fairness in insurance. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 92, 33–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12503
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talks

teaching

Linear Models in Actuarial Science

Undergraduate course, Université Laval, School of Actuarial Science, 2023

Taught and managed a class of 85+ undergraduates, supervised teaching assistants, designed assessments and projects, and earned the Teaching Star Award for teaching excellence.

Statistical Learning in Actuarial Science

Undergraduate course, Université Laval, School of Actuarial Science, 2024

Course Lecturer (with Justine Power) to over 50 undergraduate students. I was animating 2 hours workshop every week and I was reponsible for oral presentation and the class project. We were awarded the teaching star award for this class.