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Limited liability creates a conflict of interests between policyholders and shareholders of insurance companies. It … the value policyholders attach to and premiums they are willing to pay for insurance coverage. We characterize Pareto … calibrate our model to a non-life insurer average portfolio. Risk Shifting, Insurance, Regulation, Pareto Optimality …
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analyzed in this paper reinsurance markets are unable to cope with this risk completely. Insurance-linked securities, such as …
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Replicating portfolios have recently emerged as an important tool in the life insurance industry, used for the … valuation of companies' liabilities. This paper presents a replicating portfolio (RP) model for approximating life insurance … liabilities as closely as possible. We minimize the L1 error between the discounted life insurance liability cash flows and the …
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Why do investors keep buying underperforming mutual funds? To address this issue, we develop a one-period principal-agent model with a representative investor and a fund manager in an asymmetric information framework. This model shows that the investors perception of the fund plays the key role...
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We study the optimal design of a menu of funds by a manager who is required to use linear pricing and does not observe the preferences of investors regarding one of the risky assets. The optimal menu involves bundling of assets and can be explicitly constructed from the solution to a calculus of...
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