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Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk

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العنوان: Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk
المؤلفون: Andrew Ellul, Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Anastasia Kartasheva, Christian T Lundblad, Wolf Wagner
المصدر: Society for Financial Studies, Review of Financial Studies. 35(12):5483-5534
سنة النشر: 2022
الوصف: Financial intermediaries often provide guarantees resembling out-of-the-money put options, exposing them to undiversifiable tail risk. We present a model in the context of the U.S. life insurance industry in which the regulatory framework incentivizes value-maximizing insurers to hedge variable annuity (VA) guarantees, though imperfectly, and shifts risks into high-risk and illiquid bonds. We calibrate the model to insurer-level data and identify the VA-induced changes in insurers’ risk exposures. In the event of major asset and guarantee shocks and absent regulatory intervention, these shared exposures exacerbate system-wide fire sales to maintain capital ratios, plausibly erasing over half of insurers’ equity capital.Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.
نوع الوثيقة: redif-article
اللغة: English
الإتاحة: https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/rfinst/v35y2022i12p5483-5534..html
رقم الأكسشن: edsrep.a.oup.rfinst.v35y2022i12p5483.5534.
قاعدة البيانات: RePEc