In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Robert Engle and colleagues at New York University developed the NYU Stern Systematic Risk Model (SRISK), a market-based substitute for regulatory measures of systemic risk of financial institutions. This study identifies four shortcomings of SRISK....

Banks' fundamental concept relies on public trust. Since banks are also called the fiduciary financial institutions, public trust plays as an important role in the banking industry. This is mainly due to the fact that banks do not actually manage their own money. Instead, banks manage public...

Spanish Abstract: El 26 de abril de 2012 la Junta Bancaria de Ecuador aprobó la Resolución JB-2012-2149 la cual regulaba sobre los procedimientos de registro contable inicial y valoración posterior de los instrumentos financieros de renta fija y renta variable, que debían seguir las empresas...

The global trend towards tighten regulation of financial institutions and the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) may hasten the unwinding of cross-shareholdings in Japan, and there are signs that this is already happening. Finding buyers for such shares is therefore a...

Over the past decade, expectations for more effective oversight of risks by boards of directors have significantly increased. These expectations emanate from stock exchanges, regulators, credit rating agencies and other key stakeholders. Proponents of enhanced risk oversight argue that an...

We analyze the evolution over time of portfolios of life insurance contracts referring to different cohorts or risk classes of insureds. We model the intensity of mortality as a random field, in order to capture cross-generations (risk classes) effects induced by the on-going management of...

We discuss the fair valuation of Guaranteed Annuity Options, i.e. options providing the right to convert deferred survival benefits into annuities at fixed conversion rates. The use of doubly stochastic stopping times and of affine processes provides great computational and analytical...

We address the risk analysis and market valuation of life insurance contracts in a jump-diffusion setup. We exploit the analytical tractability of affine processes to deal simultaneously with financial and demographic risks affecting a wide range of insurance covers. We then focus on mortality...

This paper investigates the role of technical reserves in the income smoothing behavior of insurance companies. This is one of the first attempts in the literature to trace such relationship in the insurance industry, especially at a multi-country setting. The experience of 770 insurance firms...

In the aftermath of the 2007 global financial crisis, banks started reflecting into derivative pricing the cost of capital and collateral funding through XVA metrics. XVA is a catch-all acronym whereby X is replaced by a letter such as C for credit, D for debt, F for funding, K for capital and...