This article considers the role of American International Group (AIG) and the insurance sector in the 2007 …–2009 financial crisis and the implications for insurance regulation. Following an overview of the causes of the crisis, I explore the … assistance to AIG. I discuss the extent to which insurance in general poses systemic risk and whether a systemic risk regulator …

This paper provides an overview of research and debate over whether insurance poses systemic risk, with a focus on U ….S. life insurance. It considers the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) process for designating nonbank financial … adverse consequences of designating individual insurance entities for enhanced supervision, which favor an alternative …