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We study the impact of financing constraints on investment and output dynamics, in a continuous time setting with output a linear function of capital. Decline of net worth reduces investment and, if firms can rent capital to unconstrained outside investors, can create a 'net worth trap' with...
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, which enables one to investigate some typical pension and life insurance products. The main risks in pension insurance … relate to investment performance and mortality/longevity development. We first develop stochastic models for equity and bond … takes into account the empirical observations of infrequent exceptionally large losses. The 5-year US government bond yearly …
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This paper gathers the longest available historical monthly return series for the Finnish equity, bond and money …
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theoretical background for the regulation of financial institutions, especially insurance and banking companies, and, finally …
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-efficiency gains in monitoring credit and insurance customers. The analysis shows that conglomeration is conducive to tougher … competition in the credit market and increases profit in insurance. The aggregate profit in the financial sector does not increase …
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efficiency changes of 399 listed insurance firms in 52 countries during the 2002-2008 period, the paper reports a positive and …
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This paper studies the behavior of the default-risk-free real term structure and term premia in two general equilibrium endowment economies with complete markets but without money. In the first economy there are no frictions as in Lucas (1978) and in the second risk-sharing is limited by the...
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We present a model of risky debt in which collateral value is correlated with the possibility of default. The model is then used to study: 1) the expected amount of debt recovered in the event of default as a function of collateral; and 2) the amount of collateral needed to mitigate the...
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Building on the work of Sorge and Virolainen (2006), we revisit the data on aggregate Finnish bank loan losses from the corporate sector, which covers the ‘Big Five’ crisis in Finland in the early 1990s. Several extensions to the empirical model are considered. These extensions are then used...
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