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Decarbonising the world?s energy system, moving towards a resource efficient economy and providing energy access for all will require doubling existing investment levels to around USD 2 trillion a year or 2% of GDP. Governments understand that large sums of capital will be required, and many are...
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Recession and sovereign debt crisis, many central banks have pursued ultra-easy and far reaching unconventional monetary … policies for several years. Yields on various bond classes – including euro area sovereign bond yields since the sovereign debt …
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This written testimony accompanied Professor J.W. Verret's oral testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This testimony outlines flaws in the Trust Agreement established by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to manage the government's $180 Billion investment in...
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We analyze an initiative by insurance regulators to reform capital regulations for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) by replacing credit ratings with third-party estimates of expected credit losses and by considering an insurer's exposure to future losses when determining regulatory capital....
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U.S. insurance regulation focuses predominantly on individual insurance entities, rather than on groups of commonly owned and managed companies. Yet the bailout of AIG and emerging international norms increasingly suggest that effective insurance regulation must operate on both a legal-entity...
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The review of the Solvency II framework is the biggest and most important regulatory change of the EU insurance regulation since 2014. It tackles both level 1 and level 2 regulations. It has been long awaited and was significantly delayed because of the pandemic. Ultimately, the European...
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welfare by implementing appropriate tax and subsidy schemes that make insurance more affordable and also lower insurers …
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the green transition affect US banks and insurers, by examining the relation between their SRMs and market-based green and … low-carbon transition, reduces systemic risk of banks and insurers more than that of brown indexes, with an increasing … magnitude in the tails of the SRMs distribution. In contrast, a higher riskiness of the green companies seems to worsen banks …
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Basel III, regulating the solvency of banks, is to be fully implemented by 2027 while Solvency III directed at insurers … the solvency of banks and insurers in the same way? The first question is motivated by an earlier finding that Basel I and … II risked inducing more rather than less risk-taking by banks, which also holds for Solvency I and II w.r.t. insurers …
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We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and … diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … correlation concept, and propose an alternative measure which better captures the downside dependence given the fat tail property …
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