risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … effects from sovereign risk to domestic insurers. The impact on insurers is larger than for non-financial firms and slightly … on European data, we show that risks in sovereign bond portfolios are an important driver of insurer risk, which is not …

portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …

Recent literature has proposed new methods for measuring the systemic risk of financial institutions based on observed … stock returns. In this paper we examine the reliability and robustness of such risk measures, focusing on CoVaR, marginal … expected shortfall, and option-based tail risk estimates. We show that CoVaR exhibits undesired characteristics in the way it …

This paper uses the method developed by Bollerslev and Todorov (2011b) to estimate risk premia for extreme events for … method to German data yields very similar results to the ones shown for the US data. The risk premia for rare events … constitute a considerable part of the total equity and variance risk premia for both markets. When using the results to build an …

We discuss how cross-country unemployment insurance can be used to improve international risk sharing. We use a two … international risk sharing concerns enter the unemployment insurance trade-off. We calibrate our model to Eurozone data and find …

2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married … wage risk as the median civil servant, their hours of work would reduce by 4%. …

models in which the exogenous state variables follow conditionally-linear stochastic processes displaying time-varying risk …. The first-order approximation is consistent with a conditionally-linear model in which risk is still timevarying but has … second-order approximation of the solution, instead, is sufficient to get this role. Moreover, risk premia, evaluated using …